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
The Science of Reading and Learning
How to Ensure Students Not only Know What's True but Understand Why It's True
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