Speaking | Dr. Jessica Rose Mathy

Signature talks

Topics I'm known for

Each topic can be delivered as a keynote, a hands on workshop, or a series. I tailor every session to your audience, goals, and data.

Signature session

Building Safer Schools Through Relationships

An educator’s perspective on school safety: a 50 to 60 minute session introducing The SSCC Practice™ for school safety professionals and educational leaders.

Authority creates compliance. Relationships create influence.

Every interaction with a student matters. Authority can establish boundaries and secure immediate compliance; relationships create the influence that helps students communicate honestly, accept guidance, repair harm, and make different choices in the future. Relationships do not replace accountability. They create the conditions that make accountability more understandable, dignified, and effective.

“The badge creates authority. The relationship creates influence.”

“Physical safety and emotional safety are not competing priorities. Together, they form the foundation of a safe and supportive school.”

For district and conference leaders

A professional learning framework, built around one practice staff will actually use.

This session introduces a professional learning framework for adult capacity building, grounded in doctoral research, social emotional learning literature, and implementation science, organized around a single, sustainable daily practice: The SSCC Practice™. Staff leave with something more durable than a training memory: a habit they can return to in the moments that matter most, without adding another initiative to an already full plate.

Topics covered

Physical safety + emotional safety. Why these are interdependent, not competing, priorities, and what that means for daily practice.
The SSCC Practice™. Steady, Scan, Connect, Close applied to common school situations, with live practice and scenario cards.
Observation vs. assumption. Differentiating observable behavior from interpretation, and why that distinction protects both students and adults.
Safety as a shared network. Partnering with teachers, administrators, counselors, and MTSS/PBIS teams so safety isn’t one role’s job alone.

Audience

School resource officers, school safety officers, campus security personnel, campus supervisors, district safety staff, and educational leaders who share responsibility for safe and supportive school environments.

Learning outcomes: what participants leave able to do

Recognize how ordinary student interactions influence trust, school climate, and prevention.
Distinguish physical safety from emotional safety while recognizing their interdependence.
Apply the SSCC Practice™ to common school situations.
Differentiate observable behavior from interpretation and assumption.
Use brief relationship centered language without surrendering clarity, boundaries, or accountability.
Identify practical ways to partner with teachers, administrators, counselors, and MTSS/PBIS teams.

Formats

60 minute keynote. The full session, including active participation, reflection, feedback, and a group photograph.
50 minute compression. A tightened version for shorter conference or in service slots, preserving all four practice components.
The SSCC Practice™ in Practice. An extended workshop format with role play, scenario cards, and a language shift practice activity.

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Building Broad Buy In for MTSS

For district and site leadership teams

Most MTSS efforts don't fail on paper. They fail when the people doing the work don't see themselves in it. Drawing on an 11 school implementation, this session shows how to build ownership that lasts beyond the rollout.

Gradual release from district led to site owned systems
Data routines teams actually keep using
Aligning PBIS, attendance, and SEL into one coherent system

Who Did the Thinking? Teaching Students to Account for AI Use

For teachers, instructional coaches, and leaders

AI ethics will never be its own class, so it has to live inside the instruction we already give. This session shares four simple reflection questions students can use to show which thinking was theirs and which was the tool's.

Four authorship questions for any assignment
Embedding AI literacy into existing content areas
Why this is a career readiness skill, not a trend

Human First Learning: Handwriting, Screens, and AI

For leaders, conference audiences, and edtech partners

What does research say about learning by hand, and how do schools keep what matters about physical learning while gaining the benefits of digital systems? A forward looking talk from an educator who is also building the tools.

What the research says about handwriting and learning
Using technology more intentionally, not less
Protecting original student thinking in an AI world

PBIS That Lasts: From Rollout to Recognition

For PBIS teams, coaches, and county partners

A practical look at a multi year, districtwide PBIS professional learning series, built with a county office of education, where every one of 11 schools earned California PBIS recognition, from Bronze to Gold.