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TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS AND SUSTAINING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE

Education is currently in a crisis. Teachers are stressed, kids are bored, and surveys find that both parents and teachers think that education is getting worse. A 2024 Pew Research Center survey found 77% of K-12 teachers are stressed, 47% say students show little or no interest in learning, and few are optimistic about the future of education. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that about half the US adults (51%) felt K-12 public schools were going in the wrong direction and that a majority of teachers (82%) believe that K-12 education has gotten worse in the last 5 years.

But what if we could transform education to better serve the needs of students and teachers. The Science of Learning may help by providing more effective, efficient, and meaningful research-based strategies and more sustainable teaching practices to improve learning, teaching, assessment, edtech, and leadership. And a 2019 Deans for Impact survey found that a majority of educators (60%) agree that research-based strategies would make teaching more effective.

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the "Science of Learning" and ways to use the latest research and evidence-based strategies to innovate and transform teaching, assessment, reading, math, edtech, and leadership. You will learn ways to boost memory and learning; examine effective and sustainable teaching practices; use formative assessments and rethink grades; explore AI, smart phones, and edtech; support brain-to-brain synchronized, social, and collaborative learning; create classrooms and spaces for innovation and discovery; improve reading and math instruction; and develop school leadership skills for the future.

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This conference will be presented as a hybrid conference. You can either attend in person or participate virtually. Click here for more details.

Featured Speakers

The Science of Learning: Memory & the Brain

André A. Fenton, PhD

Neuroscientist; Professor of Neural Science, New York University; Director, Fenton Lab; Director, Center for Neural Science; Active Science Communicator and a Co-Host of "NOVA Wonders" on PBS; Host of the online lecture series, "Reconstructing Memory" Co-Founder, President, Director, Chairman of the Board, Bio-Signal Group Corp; Associate Professor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Co-Author, "Aversive Experience Drives Offline Ensemble Reactivation to Link Memories Across Days" (2023, bioRxiv), "Children's Social Representations of Utopian Societies" (2022, Children & Society), "Cognitive Control Persistently Enhances Hippocampal Information Processing" (2021, Nature), and "Navigating Clues to Success in Academia" (2021, Neuron) 

Developing Minds in a Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education

Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD

Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; Co-Director, UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences; Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE); Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning; Member, National Academy of Sciences, the Rodin Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society and the American Psychological Society; Co-Author, "Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Later Language Development" (2022, Neuroimage), Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (2019), "Early Language Learning and the Social Brain" (2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, "Is Speech Learning 'Gated' by the Social Brain?" (2007, Developmental Science), How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood (2001), and The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn (2000)

The Sustainability of Teaching for the Future

Andrew P. Hargreaves, PhD

Thomas More Brennan Chair; Research Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College; Visiting Professor, Director of Change, Engagement and Innovation in Education, University of Ottawa; Former Professor of Educational Leadership and Change, The University of Nottingham; Educational Researcher currently working on a $2.7 million project funded by the LEGO Foundation to develop and conduct research into a national network of schools that serve high needs populations through play-based learning; Honored with the “Horace Mann” Award in the US, the “Robert Owen” Award in Scotland for services to public education, and the “Excellence in Teaching With Technology” Award from Boston College; Elected President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and Elected Member of the National Academy of Education; Author, Leadership From the Middle (2023); Co-Author, The Age of Identity: Who Do Our Kids Think They Are . . . and How Do We Help Them Belong? (2023), Well-Being in Schools (2021), Five Paths to Student Engagement (2021), Teaching in the Knowledge Society (2016), Professional Capital (2013), and The Global Fourth Way (2012)

How Does Learning Happen and What Does It Look Like?

Carl Hendrick, PhD

Professor of Education, Academica University of Applied Sciences; Co-Author, How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice (2022), How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice (2020), and What Does This Look Like in the Classroom?: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice (2017)

10 Timeless Principles for Learning, AI, and Emerging Technologies in Education

George Couros, MEd

Innovative Teaching, Learning, and Leadership Consultant, George Couros Consulting; Adjunct Instructor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania; Former Division Principal of Innovative Teaching and Learning, Parkland School Division, Alberta, Canada; Former Classroom Teacher; Author, The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity (2015); Co-Author, What Makes a Great Principal (2024), Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learning Through UDL and the Innovator's Mindset (2023), Because of a Teacher, Volume II: Stories From the First Years of Teaching (2022), and Because of a Teacher: Stories of the Past to Inspire the Future of Education (2021)

Creating a Culture of Innovation and Engagement

Thomas C. Murray, MA

Director of Innovation, Future Ready Schools®, a project of All4Ed; Former Elementary and Middle School Teacher and Principal; Former Director of Technology and Cyber Education; Former Adjunct Professor, Wilkes University; Named one of the “Top 100 Influencers in Education” in 2024 by District Administration, the "2018 National/Global EdTech Leader of the Year," by EdTech Digest, the "2017 Education Thought Leader of the Year," one of "20 to Watch" in 2016 by NSBA , and the "Education Policy Person of the Year" in 2015 by the Academy of Arts and Sciences; Author, Personal & Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences That Impact a Lifetime (2019); Co-Author, Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today (2017); Contributor, 10 Perspectives on Innovation in Education (2018)

The Science of Learning

Doug Lemov, MBA

Internationally Best Selling Author; Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer, Think Like a Champion; Former Managing Director, Uncommon Schools; Author, Teach Like a Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (2021), The Coach's Guide to Teaching (2020), and Teach Like a Champion 2.0 (2015); Co-Author, Reconnect: Building School Culture for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging (2022), Reading Reconsidered (2016), and Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better (2012)

10 Timeless Principles for Learning, AI, and Emerging Technologies in Education

Katie L. Martin, PhD

Chief Impact Officer and Co-Founder, Learner-Centered Collaborative; Chief Impact Officer, Altitude Learning; Former Director of Professional Learning, University of San Diego; Former Director of District Leadership, Buck Institute for Education; Former Middle School Teacher and Instructional Coach; Author, Evolving Education: Shifting to a Learner-Centered Paradigm (2021) and Learner-Centered Innovations: Spark Curiosity, Ignite Passion, and Unleash Genius (2018)