Slide on a pair of comfortable shoes, grab a writing instrument, and join Ron Nash at this highly interactive and engaging workshop. If you’re looking for ’sit and git,’ this ain’t it! (with apologies to Mrs. Roggenbaum, Ron’s senior English teacher).  Students can’t and/or won’t learn in a classroom culture where fear is present, where lecture is predominant, and where the teacher is doing most of the work. As Michael Toth and David Sousa (2019) so eloquently put it, “The brain that does the work does the learning.” The brain that goes somewhere else in Mrs. McGillicuty’s classroom is not going to connect with the material.  Students who work together are able to learn more, remember more, and are far more productive than those who spend their days in isolation, “doing their own work” in an adult-centered classroom. This workshop will explore the following aspects of classroom culture: talking as thinking, listening as teaching, fear as a demotivator, failure as an accelerant of learning, mistakes as ways to shift direction and discover new insights, academic conversations between and among students as comprehension tools, methods for building strong positive relationships between and among students and teachers, and movement and music as accelerators of the learning process. Ron Nash will model and engage participants in actively practicing a wide variety of communication, collaboration, and critical-thinking strategies that can be used at any grade level and in any subject area to create a classroom culture that is collaborative and develops agency in students. These practical strategies will help transform classroom culture by enabling students to figure things out on their own and by developing their sense of responsibility for their own learning. Join Ron Nash for this fast-paced, high-energy session that will have you standing, moving, pairing, sharing, laughing, and learning, as you reimagine classroom culture. Each participant will receive a free copy of Ron Nash’s latest book: And What About You?