conference
Learning and the Brain 71: The Science of Learning
TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS AND SUSTAINING EDUCATIONAL CHANGE
Education is currently in a crisis. Teachers are stressed, kids are bored, and surveys find that both parents and teachers think that education is getting worse. A 2024 Pew Research Center survey found 77% of K-12 teachers are stressed, 47% say students show little or no interest in learning, and few are optimistic about the future of education. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that about half the US adults (51%) felt K-12 public schools were going in the wrong direction and that a majority of teachers (82%) believe that K-12 education has gotten worse in the last 5 years.
But what if we could transform education to better serve the needs of students and teachers. The Science of Learning may help by providing more effective, efficient, and meaningful research-based strategies and more sustainable teaching practices to improve learning, teaching, assessment, edtech, and leadership. And a 2019 Deans for Impact survey found that a majority of educators (60%) agree that research-based strategies would make teaching more effective.
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the "Science of Learning" and ways to use the latest research and evidence-based strategies to innovate and transform teaching, assessment, reading, math, edtech, and leadership. You will learn ways to boost memory and learning; examine effective and sustainable teaching practices; use formative assessments and rethink grades; explore AI, smart phones, and edtech; support brain-to-brain synchronized, social, and collaborative learning; create classrooms and spaces for innovation and discovery; improve reading and math instruction; and develop school leadership skills for the future.
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
811 7th Avenue, West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019
United States