Education Speaker Series
Overview
Piedmont Unified School District and the Piedmont Adult School in collaboration with the Associated Parent Clubs of Piedmont are pleased to be piloting the Education Speaker Series (ESS). The Series will include as many as six speakers and topics relating to raising healthy children and young adults. (Dates and topics are subject to change – additional evenings to be posted shortly.)
NEWS UPDATES: Academic Integrity and Madeline Levine
September’s ESS event moderator and educational consultant Stephanie Rafanelli points to more on the topic of academic integrity in the recent Challenge Success Newsletter. And ESS’s October speaker, educator and author Madeline Levine discusses cheating and how parents can help their children know that honesty is more important than grades in the 10/3/12 New York Times.
Registration & Reservations
We’ve received inquiries regarding whether or not interested parties can buy tickets to individual events rather than the entire Education Speaker Series. Although this policy may change in future years, during this pilot year we are offering the series as a package. The economics of bringing high-profile, in-demand speakers (such as Dr. Madeline Levine and Dr. Denise Pope) to Piedmont requires that the Education Speaker Series charge for the whole series — to cover the costs of the pilot year program, and allow for planning and booking speakers for next year’s program.
To reserve a seat for the entire series, please consider a membership to ESS. Cost: $50. Register now. (For those who joined during Online Registration, there is no need to sign up again.)
Questions? Please contact Julie Moll at su.ac1369198049.21k.1369198049tnomd1369198049eip@s1369198049eires1369198049rekae1369198049psnoi1369198049tacud1369198049e1369198049.
The 2012-13 ESS Program
Academic Integrity – September 20, 2012
7:00 pm – PHS-Alan Harvey Theater
A panel of Piedmont High School and Middle School teachers speak about how schools can and do promote a culture of integrity, and what parents can do to help.
An Evening With Madeline Levine - October 25, 2012
7:00 pm – PHS-Alan Harvey Theater
Madeline Levine, author of the best-selling book The Price of Privilege and the recently-released book Teach Your Children Well will discuss myths about good grades, high test scores and college acceptances. Her new book addresses how a parent’s hopes and fears about a child’s success can affect parenting, and offers strategies that allow children to find their own success — rather than conform to a narrow, academic definition of success.
Reading for Boys: Motivating with Time, Choice and Access to Good Books – November 29, 2012
7:00 pm – PHS-Alan Harvey Theater
Dr. Cheryl Wozniak, Havens’ new principal, loves getting books into the hands of children! When she came to Havens, she gifted to her faculty thousands of books from her personal classroom library. Join Dr. Wozniak as she discusses the key findings from her research on reading motivation, its implications on classroom practice, and her literacy vision for elementary schools.
Youth Sports & Lifelong Wellness – January 31, 2013
7:00 pm – Havens-Ellen Driscoll Theater
More than half of youth sports injuries are overuse injuries, and nearly all of these are preventable. Bruce Valentine from the Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes at Children’s Hospital will address what parents need to know about raising healthy student athletes and viewing athletics as part of lifelong wellness.
Stanford Lecturer Denise Pope, author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students – February 28
7:00 pm – PHS-Alan Harvey Theater, Topic TBD
Glen Tripp, Founder and CEO of Galileo Learning, on The Innovator’s Mindset
On Thursday, March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Piedmont High School Student Center (800 Magnolia Ave), Piedmont dad and Founder and CEO of Galileo Learning, Glen Tripp, will talk about the importance of developing young people into innovators and will share practical strategies for parents who want to encourage creativity at home. This event is free and open to all.
Stephanie Rafanelli on New Developments in Early Childhood Learning – March 28, 2013 , 7:00 pm – PHS-Student Center, 800 Magnolia Ave.
Rafanelli, a consultant for Stanford’s Challenge Success and the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Center for Childhood Creativity, will share new research about how young children learn and why “zest” may be a skill worth cultivating. This event is free and open to the public.
