Ideas in Education Festival Scheduled for April 16

Together, traditional public, charter, parochial, and independent school teachers and leaders, a group of educators equally committed to excellent schools for each of their students, but who rarely collaborate and share, will explore the depth and breadth of ideas that are current and impactful in education right now. As many as 100 educators are expected to be on St. Andrew’s Postoak Campus for a full seven-hour agenda. They will also consider how to get those ideas into the hands of more teachers and more school leaders while informing the thinking of policy makers and those interested in funding educational innovation.

 

Vanessa Rodriguez will be the Keynote Speaker for the event. The author of “The Teaching Brain,” Rodriguez spent more than 10 years teaching in New York City public schools and did her doctoral research training at Harvard. An awardee of the prestigious Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, she is the founder of the Teaching Brain Project, which conducts studies utilizing cutting edge two-person neuroscience technologies.

 

Among those participating in the event are Glenn Whitman, Director of the CTTL and Co-Author of “Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education,” Dara Feldman, Author of “The Hear of Education: Bringing Joy, Meaning and Purpose Back to Teaching and Learning,” Emily Hanford, Senior Education Correspondent for American RadioWorks, Eric Westendorf, CEO and Co-Founder of Learnzillion, and Ian Kelleher, CTTL Head of Research and Co-Author of “Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education.”

 

To learn more about the Ideas in Education Festival, please visit http://www.thecttl.org/2016-ideas-in-education-festival.