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Past Events

EWA 2013: Opportunity Gaps and Out-of-School Factors: Challenges and Solutions
Friday, May 3, 2013 to Saturday, May 4, 2013

An EWA session with Prudence Carter, Sean Reardon, Michael Petrilli, and Sarah Garland. Click here for session materials

EWA 2013—Teacher Evaluation: Seeking Common Ground
Friday, May 3, 2013 to Saturday, May 4, 2013

An EWA talk on teacher evaluation features Linda Darling-Hammond, David Steele, Ray Salazar, and Dale Mezzacappa. Follow link for powerpoints and related links.

EWA National Seminar: Creativity Counts: Innovation in Education and the Media
Thursday, May 2, 2013

SCOPE and the GSE are co-hosting the Education Writers Association's 66th National Seminar at Stanford. 

Brown Bag Seminar: The Social Construction of College-Going Culture: Variation and Change in High-Need Schools in Transition
Monday, April 15, 2013

Associate professor of education Anthony Antonio will address the social construction of college-going culture.

Brown Bag Seminar: Equitable Education: A Matter of National Security
Monday, April 1, 2013

Condoleezza Rice opens the Spring Quarter Brown Bag sessions with a talk on education and equity. 

Brown Bag Seminar: Race, Identity, and Learning: How Schools Can Support Students in Developing Productive Racial and Academic Identities
Monday, March 4, 2013

Na'ilah Suad Nasir examines how culture and race influence the learning and achievement of African American and other non-dominant students in urban settings. 

Brown Bag Seminar: Equitable Mathematics Classrooms - What Do They Look Like and Why Are They So Difficult to Achieve?
Monday, February 25, 2013

Jo Boaler, professor of mathematics education, will discuss her research on equitable mathematics classrooms and obstacles to implementing them.  

Brown Bag Seminar: The Pedagogy of Confidence: Transforming Teaching to Improve Urban Student Achievement
Monday, January 28, 2013

Yvette Jackson will discuss how districts can apply a pedagogy of confidence to improve the confidence and competence of students and the teachers upon whom they rely.

Communicating Research and  Information for Results
Thursday, November 29, 2012

How can communicators and researchers effectively reach wide-ranging and sophisticated audiences — from parents and administrators to researchers and the media? And how can we intelligently choose from the plethora of social media and communications tools out there?

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Brown Bag Seminar: Uncovering the Policy Implementation Process: Power and Learning in Instructional Reform
Monday, November 12, 2012

Cynthia Coburn, organizational sociologist and associate professor of education at U.C. Berkeley, is SCOPE's November Brown Bag speaker. 

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