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This keynote captures the very ESSENCE of emergency services more now than it did when it was first given.

Emergency service providers are proud bunch and they like to show their colors. It shows you’re proud of where you come from and let’s other people know little bit about who you are. Still, there are a couple of rules that you want to keep in mind about how you represent yourself, your agency, and your profession in what you ...

Remember the old adage that you can't solve a new problem by using old ways of thinking. When the old dogma starts to stink, it may be time to take it outside.

Leadership When No One Is Watching Every year in April approximately 30,000 brothers and sisters of the fire service descend on Indianapolis, Indiana for Fire Engineering’s Fire Department Instructor’s Conference: FDIC. For the past few years I’ve been proud to count myself among them as both a student and a teacher. It is an amazing event that educates the mind, ...

While this post is in reference to an incident that occurred at a conference presentation, the rules for educators apply to any kind of education including in-house, open-to-the-public, formal academic or informal pick-up drill. If you teach, read on...

In this episode we see “The National Fire Academy: Not Just Fire Anymore” as we talk with Michael Stern, EMS Training Specialist for the National Fire Academy.

When educators develop and present programs, we don’t do it to display our PowerPoint skills or to show off the speaking tips we’ve gleaned from the latest TED talk. True educators build and deliver programs to inspire and enable their audiences to help move emergency services forward.

Rom Duckworth sits down with an expert panel to ask, “The evolving relationship between EMS and their destination healthcare systems: Where are we going?”.

Rom Duckworth sits down with Author and Educator Richard Beebe to ask, “When providing initial and ongoing Fire, EMS and Emergency Services Education: how much (and what kind of) planning does it take to do it right?”

So if you’re new educator, don’t try and steamroll over the senior people because they don’t already know all about student centered social mobile online whatchamacallit. And for senior educators and staff in police, fire, and EMS, please continue to bring your knowledge and experience into the classroom, even if you have to stretch a little to do it in new and unfamiliar ways.