Speaker Profile

Denise C. Pope, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Challenge Success; Co-Host, “School's In” Podcast; Author, “Doing School”: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (2001); Co-Author, “Stressed, Tired, and Yearning for Support” (2025, Kappan Online), “What Students and Teachers Do to Build Positive Reciprocal Relationships: A Study Co-Led by Youth and Adult Researchers” (2023, American Journal of Education), “A Caring Climate That Promotes Belonging and Engagement” (2022, Phi Delta Kappa), and Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids (2015)

Denise C.Pope, PhD

Upcoming Talks

Teaching Social Brains
Applying Brain Science to Improve Social Skills, Belonging, Behavior, Regulation, and Learning
The Fairmont Atop Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
February 12-14, 2027

Past Talks

Teaching Stronger Brains
Promoting Student Strengths, Character, Compassion, Hope, and Autonomy in a Deficit-Focused Age
Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom
February 20-22, 2025
Teaching Engaged Brains
Improving Student Attention, Motivation, and Mindsets in a Disengaged, Distracted Age
The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
February 22-24, 2024
The Science of Teaching
Applying Brain Science and COVID Lessons to Improve Teaching, Schools, and Learning Spaces
The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
February 18-20, 2022