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Jim Heal, EdLD

Professor of Evidence-Informed Education Leadership, Academica University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam; Lecturer and Former Director of Practice at Research Schools International, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Former Director of Impact Academy, Deans for Impact; Leading Advocate for bridging the worlds of research and practice in education; Co-Author, Mental Models: How Understanding the Mind Can Transform the Way You Work and Learn (Forthcoming) and How Teaching Happens: Seminal Works in Teaching and Teacher Effectiveness and What They Mean in Practice (2022)

Events

The Science of Learning

Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel or Virtually via Zoom  April 25-27, 2025

Keynote Address II: Leading with Learning in Mind: Putting the "Education" in Educational Leadership

Evidence-Informed Learning

Transforming Schools Through the Applied Science of Learning

The Science of Teaching and Learning

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA or Virtually via Zoom  November 17-19, 2023

The Science of Learning

Mental Models: How Cognitive Science Can Transform the Way You Learn and Teach

Teaching Struggling Brains

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA or Virtually via Zoom  November 18-20, 2022

DISCOURAGED LEARNERS & THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING

Teacher-Led Instruction vs. Student-Centered Learning: Why Can't We Have Both?

The Science of Knowledge

Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom  April 1-3, 2022

The Science of Thinking

Why the Most Important Question a Teacher Can Ask is Often the One Left Unsaid