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Engage in intensive training in connecting brain
and cognitive science to the classroom.
The Summer Institute is for
- PreK-12 Teachers, Administrators,
School Psychologists and School
Clinicians
- Education Professsors
- College Professors
- Policymakers
You will make connections:
- Between brain and cognitive research and the
classroom
- Between emotion and learning
- Among researchers, teachers and school
administrators
Based on cutting-edge findings from affective and
social neuroscience, the Institute will extend the L&B
Conferences, emphasizing the roles of emotion and social interaction in
learning, motivation, creativity and the culture of schools.
The Institute will be hands-on. You will
collaborate in facilitated discussions and analyses of case studies to
develop scientifically grounded approaches for understanding and
meeting the diverse cognitive, social and emotional needs of students.
At the Institute, you will:
- Inquire meaningfully into brain, cognitive and
emotional development as dynamically intertwined processes
- Obtain ideas for fostering healthy, enduring
development and learning in your students
- Acquire concrete tools and strategies for the
design of curricula and assessments
- Achieve a new understanding of
students’ learning and behavior and learn new ways to analyze
what we teach
- Discuss real experiences from your own school
or classroom
- Develop strategies for teachers to become
researchers in their own classrooms
- Gain ongoing access to a community of educators
and scientists working at the intersection of neuroscience and
education
Content goals:
Four goals provide the basis for the program:
- Achieving a new understanding of
students’ learning and behavior
- Acquiring tools and strategies for the design
of curricula and assessments
- Improving instructional practice
- Enhancing student outcomes
Participants inquire deeply into brain, cognitive
and
emotional development as dynamically intertwined processes; obtain
ideas for fostering healthy, enduring development and learning in their
students; develop strategies to become researchers in their own
schools; and gain ongoing access to a community of educators and
scientists working at the intersection of neuroscience and education.
Special focus:
Participants will focus on one of three special
topics:
- Innovative assessment and methods
- Teaching students with learning disabilities
- Developing research schools.
Format:
Full-time participation and preparation are
expected
throughout the Institute. The Institute is hands-on. Rather than simply
listening to lectures, participants also collaborate in facilitated
discussions and analyses of case studies to develop scientifically
grounded approaches for understanding and meeting the diverse
cognitive, social and emotional needs of students.
A full schedule of class sessions and activities
is held
each day, amounting to a program total of 22 hours. Additionally,
approximately an hour and twenty minutes of preparation is required
each evening for the next day.
For part of the program, participants will be
broken up
into groups of 20 to work on case analyses. Each group will
have
a special focus: innovative assessment and methods, teaching
students with learning disabilities and developing research schools.
About The Institute:
The Learning & the Brain Conference Summer
Institute on learning and the brain helps individuals and school teams
develop the knowledge, skills and strategies necessary to responsibly
apply neuroscience and cognitive science findings to the classroom to
improve teaching and learning.
The program offers participants an intensive
professional development experience, drawing on the most up-to-date
findings in affective and social neuroscience. The Institute emphasizes
understanding emotion and social interaction and their roles in
learning, motivation, attention and the culture of schools.
The Institute will be led by Dr. Mary
Helen-Immordino Yang and will be
assisted by Alden Blodget, Joanna Christodolou, Zachary Stein, and
Christina Hinton.
 About
Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD
Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, a leading cognitive
neuroscientist and educator.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D. is a cognitive
neuroscientist and educational psychologist who studies the brain bases
of emotion, social interaction and culture and their implications or
development and schools. She is an Assistant Professor at the
Rossier School of Education and
an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity
Institute, both at the University of
Southern California.
A former junior high school teacher, she earned
her
doctorate at the Harvard University
Graduate School of Education,
where she was the recipient of grants from the Spencer Foundation and
the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation.
She is the Associate Editor for North America for
the journal Mind, Brain
and Education,
and the inaugural recipient of the Award for Transforming Education
through Neuroscience, co-sponsored by the International Mind, Brain and
Education Society (IMBES) and the Learning and the Brain Conference.
She lectures nationally and abroad on the implicatons of
brain
and cognitive science research for curriculum and pedagogy.
Her
background as a researcher, teacher, and mother has made her especially
interested in the connection between learning and emotion.
About Alden Blodget
Denny
Blodget is director of Sustainable Teaching, offering online
professional development and support to teachers in their first four
years of teaching. He was a teacher and an administrator for
38 years.
He taught theatre and English, created and chaired the arts department
at Taft School (Connecticut), chaired the arts department at Packer
Collegiate Institute (New York) and was assistant head of school for 18
years at Lawrence Academy (Massachusetts). Since 2000, he has
worked
with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang creating workshops for teachers to
explore the implications of her research for the classroom.
He has
written several articles for the Independent
School magazine
(National Association of Independent Schools publication) and other
publication and continues to write a blog for Sustainable teaching.
Denny
has spent his life in the educational reform movement and led the
transformation of Lawrence Academy's curriculum and teaching methods
that resulte din innovations that attracted national attention from
other schools. He serves on the Board of Trustees for The
Long Trail
School in Vermont and is aguardian ad litem for the Family and District
Cours of Rutland County (Vermont), representing abused and delinquent
children.
About
Joanna Christodoulou
Joanna A. Christodoulou, M.A., Ed.M. is a developmental cognitive
neuroscientist and educator who studies learning disabilities, reading
development, and reading disorders. She holds an appointment
as
an Instructor of Education at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Education and
is completing her doctoral studies there as well. She has
worked
with education professionals on the role of emotion and
cognition
in learning and teaching, the role of cogntive neuroscience in
education, and reading disabilities.
About
Christina Hinton
Christina Hinton is a doctoral student at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Education and
works on issues at the nexus of neuroscience and education.
Christina is a true transdisciplinarian - she hold a M.Ed. in
Mind, Brain and Education Harvard
University and B.A. in Neuroscience and Education
from Swarthmore College.
Christina worked on the OECD's Learning Sciences and Brain
Research project from 200-2007 and was a primary author and editor of
the project's culminating publication Understanding the Brain:
The Birth of a Learning Science.
She represented the OECD at Learning Sciences and Brain
Research
network meetings in Europe, North Americ, and Asia, and has a deep
understanding of the political, scientific, cultural, and ethical
challenges involved in connecting neuroscience research with education
policy. Currently, Christina is developing a research school model to
bring the voice of the classroom into the world of education research
and policy.
About Zachary
Stein
Zachary Stein, Ed.M. is currently a student of philosophy and cognitive
development pursuing a doctorate at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Education.
He is also the Senior Analyst for the Developmental Testing.
Zak has worked for years employing cognitive developmental
models
and metrics in a variety of real world context and has experience
running workshops on toics in Mind, Brain, and Education with primary
and secondary school teachers, management consultants, and
leadership experts. His research focuses on theoretical work
in
psychometrics, educational assessment reform, and the philosophy of
education.
Housing Accommodations
Cardinal Gardens Apartments
Cardinal Gardens is a townhouse-style apartment
complex consisting of nine individual buildings. This complex offers
comfortable, fully furnished one-bedroom apartments, which come
complete with linens, a desk, and free wireless internet
access. Each unit is air-conditioned and has a full kitchen, living
room (TV not included), and bathroom. The complex has laundry
facilities on each floor and a Customer Service Center on site.
Recreational facilities include a TV/piano/billiards lounge, a sand
volleyball court and a basketball court. Located on the north
side of Jefferson Boulevard, Cardinal Gardens is convenient to both
the Bank of America and
Superior Supermarket in University Village, and is
just steps away from the main campus.
Students in this program will be sharing a
two-bedroom apartment with one other person enrolled in the program.
>>Take a virtual tour of the
apartments
Professional Development Credit:
This program provides a total of 22 hours toward
professional development credit for various professionals. For types of
credit offered, or to find out about additional engaged hours toward
professional development credit, call Learning & the Brain
Conference at 781-449-4010 ext. 105.
Enrollment is limited to 60 participants; please
register early. Cost: $1,950 (ask about group rates) --includes
registration, materials, fees, meals, lodging and available
professional development credits. To register, click on
“Register” at the top of the page, or call
781-449-4010
ext. 101 and 917-405-0412. For details and policies, click on
“Policies” above.
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