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This one started with a proposal — and a hometown that said yes the same day. On a Saturday in Luisiana, Laguna, 300 teachers showed up on their day off for a training led by one of their own.
How it came together
Dr. E reached out to the newly elected Vice Mayor of Luisiana, Jonieces Acaylar, with a simple outreach proposal: come home and run a free training for the local teachers. The Vice Mayor agreed immediately and sent a memo to every public and private school in town.
The result was a Saturday turnout of 300 K–12 teachers — public and private, elementary through high school — sitting in their seats on a day they're supposed to be resting.
The room he came back to
Some of Dr. E's own gradeschool and high school teachers were in the audience — the ones still in the profession. Some former classmates from the same schools are now teaching themselves. The same people who shaped him into a teacher were now sitting in the front rows.
I've shared this work in cities and countries around the world. To finally bring it back to the teachers who made me who I am — that's the part I'll carry the longest.
The core message
"We are the experts in our discipline." That was the throughline. Dr. E wanted to empower teachers in his small hometown with one idea: if I can do this, you can do it even better.
The session was titled Teaching the TikTok Generation: Empowering teachers to engage and inspire through video — and it reframed video creation away from "becoming a content creator" and toward something more grounded:
Key takeaways from the workshop
- Use your phone to elevate your teaching. You don't need to chase virality. You already have your loyal followers and subscribers — they're sitting in your classroom. Focus on them.
- Use what's already in your room. Your camera, your blackboard, your handwriting. With the materials you already have, you can create countless videos.
- This is a workshop — you'll create your first video here. Teachers watched other teachers do it in real time, then did it themselves. Skills they thought they didn't have, they had by the end of the day.
- Small towns can make this happen. The same techniques that scale to international audiences scale down to a single classroom in a small town.
What the hosts said
"Many thanks first to the Lord for guiding us, and for the successful program for our teachers. Thank you Dr. E (Peter Esperanza) for sharing your skill and knowledge. This is added knowledge for them. Long live the people of Luisiana! God bless you more!"
Original (Tagalog): "Maraming Salamat po una na po sa Panginoon sa paggabay at matagumpay na programa para sa ating mga guro. Salamat Dr. E (Peter Esperanza) 🤓 sa pagbabahagi ng iyong galing at kaalaman. Isa itong dagdag kaalaman para sa kanila. Mabuhay ang mga tubong Luisianahin!! GodBless you more!!"
"Thank you very much to our incredible speaker, Kuya Dr. E Numberbender, to all the participants and everyone who supported and helped — and of course to Vice Mayor Jonieces Rondilla Acaylar, who made this training possible. Maraming salamat po."
Original (Tagalog): "Maraming salamat po sa napakagaling na speaker, Kay Kuya Dr. E Numberbender, sa lahat po ng participants at lahat ng sumuporta at tumulong, syempre po kay Vice Mayor Jonieces Rondilla Acaylar na naging daan para maisakatuparan ang training na ito maraming salamat po."
Why this one mattered
It was the first time Dr. E had presented in his own hometown. The teachers who showed up gave up a Saturday. The local government gave up a venue. And the message that traveled around the world arrived back where it started — with the teachers who started it all.