Speak Less. Expect More. | Matthew J Dicks | TEDxTheCountrySchool

Matthew J Dicks shares an honest and humorous account of his early teaching career-- how his students taught him how to teach.

Matthew Dicks is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing and Unexpectedly, Milo, and The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs. His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide. He is also the author of the rock opera The Clowns and the musicals Caught in the Middle and Sticks & Stones. He is the co-host of Boy Vs. Girl, a podcast about gender and gender stereotypes.


Matthew is a 20-time Moth StorySLAM and three-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on the nationally syndicated The Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. When not hunched over a computer screen, he fills his days as an elementary school teacher, a storyteller, a blogger, a wedding DJ, a minister, a life coach, and a Lord of Sealand. He has been teaching for 17 years and is a former West Hartford Teacher of the Year and a finalist for Connecticut Teacher of the Year.


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