D. Ed. Hoggatt

Audiences can expect to laugh and cry as they enjoy Dale Hoggatt's keynote addresses, professional development training, or breakout sessions.

Historical and personal stories weave throughout his presentation, making an entertaining, challenging, and educational message that causes listeners to reflect on their own legacies and visions.

Topics of emphasis span from teamwork and the pursuit of happiness, best efforts and overcoming setbacks, positivity and the human spirit, and the restoration of humility, service, and vulnerability.

Hoggatt is an energetic presenter who doesn't go overboard, a poignant speaker who doesn't get lost in the weeds, and an entertainer who delivers a balanced message.

Dale Hoggatt
- had two girlfriends at the age of three
- danced with a live, full-grown lion
- herded bison on foot
- worked for the United States Air Force
- appeared on Good Morning America
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On a more serious note, more than three decades ago, credentials in hand, Dale Hoggatt received his first teaching position in inner-city Oklahoma City. He was more than slightly apprehensive.

Hoggatt quickly became the lead teacher for his school and participated in many administrative decisions. In spring of 1995, Mr. Hoggatt nurtured students through issues no child should ever face. Together, teachers, parents, and students worked through memorials, constant television coverage, fatality reports, and challenges of unprecedented proportion – all stemming from the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City, and all under the watchful eyes of the media and the world.

Suddenly, he could point to an event that sent him down a new path as an educator. Suddenly, he appreciated his responsibility and influence in the lives of the people around him.

That summer, he and his wife moved to Joplin, Missouri, where Mr. Hoggatt became a teacher of fourth-grade students. He pursued and earned his Master’s degree and won a number of awards, but more importantly, with the newfound realization of his responsibility and influence, Hoggatt's teaching changed. He taught standard lessons in creative, captivating ways, with amazing results. He taught with confidence, exuberance, and respect for peers, administrators, students, and parents. After a few years, he was named the Teacher of the Year for his district.

All of this helped Hoggatt deal with the second major disaster of his career: in 2011, his school of 16 years, was significantly damaged in the infamous EF5 tornado that ravaged a third of the city. Hoggatt assisted in the coordination of relief efforts for the church, hugging more strangers that summer than any point in his life. Teaching summer school at another school, that year, was extraordinarily hot, and all he wanted to do was be back at the church handing out materials and dispatching work crews.

The school building was repaired by the first day of school in August, and he went into the duty of "counseling" students who had lost the only houses they ever lived in. With a number of frank discussions, the class became the closest family away from home possible, with students truly acting like brothers and sisters.

In the years since, Hoggatt's classroom earned the rich reputation of having the best family-style relationship in our city. He emphasized that relationship through etiquette and high expectations, making mistakes and finding solutions, struggling together, and discovering truth. He wrote children’s books about our local disasters, and he continues to sharpen his passion for teaching history, artfully embedded with other areas of curricula.

In almost four decades of teaching, Dale Hoggatt realizes the importance of learning from history, learning from mistakes, and recognizing the humanity of historical figures. Throughout his career, Hoggatt has sought his own path, attending trainings and special events in Baltimore, Atlanta, Kansas City, St. Louis, and other locations. He spent a week living on the property at George Washington's Mount Vernon and studied with scholars on-location at Fort Ticonderoga in Upstate New York. In 2022, he participated in special events at Jamestown, Yorktown, and Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.

In 2021, he was recognized as Missouri History Teacher of the Year. Hoggatt continues to educate across the United States as a master teacher for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City. He has encouraged educators in at least nine states: Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, and Virginia.

In 2022, he was a selected honoree at Disney's 50 Teachers Celebration - learning directly from Disney Imagineers, performers, and executives, and even serving as Grand Marshall in a Magic Kingdom parade.

This presenter is able to project his voice appropriately, but he does not reject an appropriate microphone and sound system. He often presents with a slide show which requires a computer with the appropriate software and connections to a projector and screen(s). Speech requirements vary based on the needs of the occasion, so seating and table arrangements may also vary.