Built around the theme
A high-energy session for the whole staff, 45 to 90 minutes, written around Don't Miss the Masterpiece rather than bolted onto it.
Now booking 2027
All-staff back to school kickoff
2027 theme: Don't Miss the Masterpiece.
Kick off the school year with an experience created for everyone who makes your school work, not just the teachers. From teachers and administrators to aides, office staff, custodians, maintenance teams, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and support staff, every person has a role in the masterpiece.
For decades Ben Glenn has helped schools start the year with energy, laughter, encouragement and a shared sense of purpose. Don't Miss the Masterpiece is designed to unify your staff, remind people that their work matters, and get your whole team ready for the year ahead.
July and August dates go first.
Your event includes
Everything in one package.
Created live in the room
Ben's signature six-by-eight-foot piece, drawn in front of your staff during the presentation. The original stays with your school.
A 9 × 6 print
Everyone in the room leaves with a print of the finished artwork. Not a handout that gets recycled. Something people put on a wall.
A ready-to-use outline
The theme written up so your admin team can carry it past opening day and into the school year instead of letting it end at lunch.
T-shirt artwork
Download the theme graphic and print shirts locally, at whatever count and price fits your budget. No merch order, no minimum.
Built for every role
Written so the person who drives the bus and the person who runs the building hear themselves in it. Nobody sits through this as a spectator.
Ben: confirm the print is included in the fee, and send bulk book pricing plus the t-shirt file
The idea
Every masterpiece starts with somebody who believed in it.
The theme comes out of Ben's book of the same name. Teachers spend all day looking for the masterpiece inside their students. This is the day somebody stands up and points at the masterpiece your staff has been building all along.
And it is not only the teachers. It is the aide who noticed. The custodian who said good morning by name. The cafeteria worker who kept an eye on the kid eating alone. The theme is built to say that out loud, to everyone at once.
The outline
Three movements.
The keynote runs 45 to 90 minutes and moves through the same three parts as the book.
See It
Learning to spot the masterpiece in the room. Ben opens with the two teachers who looked at a kid everybody else had written off and saw an artist.
The Messy Middle
The part nobody photographs. The year that is not working yet, the plan that is half finished, the student who is not turning around on your schedule. This is where the real work lives.
Leave a Mark
Why the work counts even when you never get to see the finish. The canvas is done by the time Ben stops talking, and the room sees exactly what he means.
Outline drafted from the book's framework. Ben: confirm this matches how you deliver it
Build the day
Start with the keynote, add what you need.
All-staff keynote
45 to 90 minutes, everybody in one room. This is the anchor.
ADHD breakout
Add one of the two ADHD sessions in the afternoon and you have a half day.
Student assembly
Same travel day, second audience. The best value in the lineup.
The book for your staff
Don't Miss the Masterpiece at bulk pricing, a copy waiting on every desk.
One theme. One staff. One shared mission.
July and August book first.
Back-to-school weeks are the tightest two weeks on the calendar and they go early. Send the date and the town, and Ben's coordinator will pencil it in with no contract and no deposit.
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