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Intro:
Pt1: Tim Clue wants your focus but knows this introduction won’t help get it. Before he was an educator, speaker, playwright, innovator, or father—Tim was a left-handed, undiagnosed, hyperactive dyslexic rug rat.
Pt2: He's opened for Jerry Seinfeld, and performed before a former U.S. President (George H.W. Bush), and is a late comer to the title of owner and developer.
Pt3: Tim sees a need to help us all rethink team focus as connection, conversation, and engagement. So get ready to experience his mission, his methods, and a little madness."
Please welcome Focus Finder and mind re-set prompt, Tim Clue!
Bio:
Tim Clue—FunnyPolling Creator and Developer—is a disruptor and innovator in modern focus. He helps teams rethink focus through engagement, conversation, and collaboration—moving away from monologue and lecture toward interaction and active participation.
An award-winning writer, educator, innovator, and comic, Tim is a latecomer to the title of creator, developer, and owner of FunnyPolling. He has opened for a former president and Jerry Seinfeld. You may have heard his comedy on XM/Sirius Satellite Radio. His play Leaving Iowa was nominated for Best New Play in the country and is performed nationwide.
FunnyPolling reached the finals of the Notre Dame Entrepreneurial Competition and is securing venture capital to build a cloud-based service that enhances meetings through interactive FunnyPolling engagement.
Tim’s mission is to address our most undervalued resource: focus, time, and team.
The Focus Connection: Rethinking Engagement in the Modern Classroom
Before Tim was an award-winning educator, speaker, comic, and playwright—he was an undiagnosed, hyperactive, dyslexic rug rat, raised in a small rural town outside of Chicago.
"Tim empowers our nation's most undervalued assets—teachers!"
As a team focus ambassador and interventionist, Tim helps educators rethink how focus functions in the modern classroom—providing best practices to reboot and reshape focus as an experience—where connection and focus are essential to collaboration and belonging, not just lecture or monologue.
“Before any child can learn, they must first belong."
As the creator, developer, and owner of Funny Polling, this educational innovator is mentoring new ways to create lifelong, curious learners who are more capable of lighting the path to their own journeys.
"So minds of all kinds may find places to fit and not quit!"
— Tim Clue
Topics:
"Keynote: Tim Clue, The Unlikely Teacher.
Before Tim was an educator, speaker, comic, playwright, and father, he was an undiagnosed, hyperactive, dyslexic rug rat, raised in a small rural town outside of Chicago. Teachers stand and applaud Tim’s unique ability to remind them of their own core strengths as mentors, artists, and teachers of curiosity. He showcases how a challenged learner can lead equally challenged educators on a journey to connect and build a mindset of lifelong engagement. His keynote celebrates, motivates, and 'LOL' empowers our nation's most undervalued assets—teachers! Tim travels across our country, mentoring, motivating, and modeling better ways to create lifelong, curious learners who are more capable of lighting the path to their own journeys.
'When minds of all kinds find places to fit and not quit, we all succeed!' - Tim Clue"
Break out: Tim Clue’s Connected Classroom:
This laugh-filled master class unveils both the art and science of engagement by merging soft skills with Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) best practices.
The 'Connected Classroom' aims to transform classroom cultures from competitive to collaborative to bolster minds of all kinds. This dynamic and highly interactive experience showcases strategies for better teams and a stronger classroom dynamic. By applying improvisational techniques this session focuses on enhancing Communication, Collaboration, and Confidence. This Unlikely Teacher evolved from a challenged learner and now offers a range of team-building exercises designed for educators striving to foster deeper connections among increasingly disconnected students.
'Connecting young minds to passion, play, and purpose is a universal imperative.' - Tim Clue"
HEADSHOTS
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TECH RIDER
1. Cordless hand-held microphone
NO lavalier, unless discussed
2. PowerPoint Set-Up
Large screens recommended; off-floor, if possible.
3. Flat Bar Stool & 3-5 Water Bottles
4. Tim’s performance is primarily off-stage and instead, in front of/amongst the audience.
Discuss accommodations, if necessary.
5. Set-up as close to audience as possible
No one sitting behind or to the extreme side or large gaps such as an empty dance floor
6. Eliminate Dining & Food Distractions
Tim does not perform while the audience is eating or the wait-staff is working during the presentation.
