LaBrita Andrews, Ed.M.

What Happens
When Children Stop Talking?

Harvard Graduate School of Education • Johns Hopkins School of Education

The Conversations That Shape Childhood.

LaBrita Andrews, Ed.M., speaks to the moments adults often overlook, the words, responses, and everyday interactions that shape whether children feel heard at home, connected in school, supported in peer relationships, and confident enough to use their voice.

Drawing from more than 40 years of parenting experience, Harvard training, and current Ed.D. doctoral work at Johns Hopkins School of Education, LaBrita brings audiences a message that is research-informed, deeply human, and impossible to ignore:

Children should not have to carry the emotional weight of adults.

Audiences Will

Recognize How everyday adult responses shape what children carry into school, peer relationships, and home life.

Understand How emotional weight can move from adult stress into a child’s relationships, school experience, and sense of belonging.

Pause Long enough to notice what they are bringing into the conversation before responding to a child.

Strengthen The everyday conversations that build confidence, trust, connection, and a child’s ability to use their voice.

Apply Practical tools they can use immediately with children at home, in schools, and across community settings.

Signature Talks

Three Talks. One Truth.

Changing What Children Carry

The EVO 50™ Framework Some children carry emotional weight they were never meant to carry.

This talk explores how adult stress, responses, and communication patterns can shape a child’s experience at home, in school, and in peer relationships.

From Control to Collaboration

Team-Based Parenting™ The strongest voices are developed through conversation, not control.

This talk explores how everyday conversations help children develop confidence, independent thinking, trust, and the courage to use their voice.

Where Connection Begins

Conversations at the Table The most important thing on the table isn’t the food. It’s the conversation.

This talk explores how simple, everyday conversations help children feel heard, understood, and connected to the people who matter most.

The Author & Speaker

Meet LaBrita Andrews, Ed.M.

LaBrita Andrews, Ed.M., is the creator of EVO 50™ and Team-Based Parenting™.

With 40+ years of parenting experience, including 23 years as a stay-at-home mother, her understanding of family relationships was shaped at the family table first and later strengthened through academic study.

She holds a Master of Education degree in Education Policy and Analysis from Harvard Graduate School of Education and is currently an Ed.D. doctoral student at Johns Hopkins School of Education.

Audiences

Every audience is different. The commitment is the same.

01 Education

For schools and education groups, LaBrita invites audiences to look beyond behavior and consider the experiences students may be carrying into the classroom. Her talks create new conversations about trust, belonging, engagement, and the relational conditions that shape a student’s experience at school.

02 Community

For community and parent-facing groups, LaBrita helps families name what often goes unseen: how adult responses at home shape what children bring into school, peer relationships, and their sense of belonging.

03 Workplace & Professional Organizations

For professional audiences, LaBrita brings a new perspective to employee wellbeing by showing how workplace stress can follow parents home, influence adult responses, and shape what children bring into school and peer relationships. Her talks connect working-parent support to adult emotional responsibility and the child-facing outcomes organizations often overlook.

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What HappensWhen Children Stop Talking?