Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia; Member, National Board for Education Sciences; Writer, “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” Column, American Educator; Author, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy (2023), Why Don’t Students Like School? (2021, 2nd Edition), “A Mental Model of the Learner: Teaching the Basic Science of Educational Psychology to Future Teachers” (2017, Mind, Brain, & Education), The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads (2017), and Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do (2015); Co-Author, “Making Education Research Relevant: How Researchers Can Give Teachers More Choice” (2021, Education Next)
Events
Reading in a Digital Age
Keynote IV: How to Teach Thinking Skills in an AI World
Teaching Students to Teach Themselves: Empowering Children to Get the Most From Schooling
Getting Kids to Read in an Age of Distraction
The Science of Reading: A Whirlwind Tour
Keynote: Helping Kids Teach Themselves
Knowledge and Practice: The Real Keys to Critical Thinking