Transform Your Teaching:

Mind, Brain, and Education Conference

For: Classroom Teachers and School Administrators, especially K - 8 Educators

Tuesday, January 26, 2021;

2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

In a time of much uncertainty for educators, one constant remains: the organ of learning is the brain. As you look ahead to the second half of the school year, join the Far Hills Country Day School faculty, Glenn Whitman, author and Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, and other special guests to explore how research can inform your teaching in 2021 and beyond. Situated at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and education, the field of Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) affirms many practices we already do each day and provides a framework for future lesson planning. Topics will include the science of learning, the relationship between emotion and cognition, and student motivation.

Concurrent session topics include:

- - MBE & The Arts
  - Emotion & Cognition
  - The intersection of MBE & DEI
  - Choice and motivation with
  - Project/Assessments
  - And more!

Program Agenda

(subject to change)

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Featured Presentation

Presented by: Glenn Whitman, Director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School

3:20 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. Concurrent Sessions I

Participants may choose from the following topics:

- MBE and the Arts

- Intersection of MBE and DEIB

- MBE and Math

- Panel Discussion: MBE in Practice

4:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions II

- Emotion and Cognition

- Choice and Motivation

- Cognitive Load

- Panel Discussion: MBE in Practice

Program Fee:

$85 per registrant, Member Schools

$150 per registrant, Non-Member Schools

Featured Speaker:

Glenn Whitman is the co-author of Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education and directs the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. Glenn is a former Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence Fellow and author of “Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards through Oral History” as well as co-editor of Think Differently and Deeply, the international publication of the CTTL. Glenn is also a blogger for Edutopia. Glenn earned his MALS from Dartmouth College and a BA from Dickinson College. Glenn has presented at more than a dozen, major conferences world-wide including: New Teacher Center Symposium (2018), SXSWedu (2016, 2017), Festival of Education (UK, 2015, 2017), Ideas in Education Festival (2015, 2016), researchEd (2015, 2016, 2017), National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference (2013, 2017), National Network of Schools in Partnership (2018), and Learning and the Brain Conference (2016, 2017, 2018). Glenn’s most recent publications include: “A Bridge No Longer Too Far: A Case Study of One School’s Exploration of the Promise and Possibilities of Mind, Brain, and Education Science for the Future of Education” in Mind, Brain and Education and “Bridging the Gap Between Mind, Brain, and Education Research and Practice: One School’s Replicable Model in Impact the Journal of the Chartered College of Teaching.

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