Curry School of Education | University of Virginia

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Curry Library Innovation Commons
3rd Floor, Ruffner Hall
Fridays from 11 am to 12 noon

All lectures are FREE and open to the public. No registration is required. Parking is available at the Central Grounds Parking Garage on Emmet Street.

Visit the link for each speaker for more information and to hear the recorded lecture (if already presented).

September 25--Laurence Steinberg
Adolescent Risk-Taking: A Social Neuroscience Perspective
Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University

October 20 (Tuesday)--Geoffrey Borman
Growing Capacity for Dissipation? Second-Year Outcomes of a School-Randomized Trial of the Effects of Professional Development on Student Achievement in Elementary Science
Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, Educational Policy Studies, and Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

October 23--David Reinking
Beyond the Laboratory and Lens: New Metaphors and Methods for Education Research
Eugene T. Moore Professor of Teacher Education at Clemson University

November 6--Doug Clements
The Building Blocks of Early Mathematics
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Leraning and Instruction, University at Buffalo The State University of New York

November 13--Ann Kaiser
Good Talk, Bad Talk: The Relationship Between Language and Behavior in Preschool Children
Susan W. Gray Professor of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University