Speaker Tom Cody will present a Top 20 Training presentation at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Albert Lea High School auditorium.

According to a press release, Top 20 Training offers a simple language that helps people discover critical thinking, learning and communicating skills. Whether it is through Top 20 books or training sessions, learning the concepts together provides parents and students with greater benefits at a faster rate. When everyone in the family knows this language, the skills become easier to practice and implement into their daily lives. Parents sometimes benefit more from Top 20 Training than students and observe many positive changes in their own personal and professional lives.

Top 20 Training helps parents find ways to enhance and become part of their children’s education:

Obtain a shared working vocabulary of the content to help foster an environment where the concepts can be learned together

Communicate more effectively and improve their relationships with their children

Develop positive mental habits and reduce negative mental habits in their children

Grow personally and be exposed to emotional intelligence.

Cody, a co-founder of Top 20 Training, shares his unique witticisms, insights and wisdom gathered from 40 years in the classroom. His professional life has been committed to education, serving as a grade school and high school math teacher and character ed teacher from 1974 until his retirement from teaching in 2014. Cody now devotes his professional life to to Top 20 Training. He has been instrumental in developing innovative curricular programs and processes at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul. He has coached several successful boys and girls athletic teams and was a newspaper sports columnist for over 20 years. A graduate of Colorado State University, Cody is a crossword puzzle fanatic and a deeply committed baseball fan. He and his wife, Judy, also a teacher, have three sons.