Chicago: Better Systems of Learning for Diverse Communities with GSE Dean Dan Schwartz & Professor Milbrey McLaughlin
Event Details
06:00PM - 08:00PM
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Join fellow alumni and friends for a conversation with Dan Schwartz, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Professor Emerita Milbrey McLaughlin, founding director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
Dan and Milbrey will discuss Stanford’s legacy studying youth education and community-based approaches that create conditions for education success. Guests will learn more about Milbrey’s engagement with a Cabrini-Green youth development program in the late 1980s and her rare opportunity to measure the long-term effects with 700 program participants nearly 30 years later.
This event is brought to you by the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
About The Speakers
Milbrey McLaughlin is the David Jacks Professor of Education and Public Policy Emerita at Stanford University and the founding director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Communities. She also is co director of the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, an interdisciplinary research center engaged in analyses of how teaching and learning are shaped by teachers’ organizational, institutional, and social cultural contexts. McLaughlin has focused throughout her career on the various institutional contexts and policies that shape youth outcomes—schools and community-based institutions most particularly. The Gardner Center embodies McLaughlin’s interest in identifying and understanding the cross-institutional issues that shape with settings within and through which youth move, and in advancing a youth sector stance to inform policy and practice.
Daniel L. Schwartz is the I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). An expert in human learning and educational technology, Schwartz oversees a laboratory whose computer-focused developments in science and math instruction permit original research into fundamental questions of learning. His book, The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work and When to Use Them, distills learning theories into practical solutions for use at home or in the classroom. NPR noted the book among the "best reads" for 2016.
About the Improving Lives Through Learning Tour
For more than 100 years, Stanford Graduate School of Education has been committed to rigor, daring, and relevance in education research, practice, and policy. The Improving Lives Through Learning Tour shares how the school continues to build upon that legacy through local conversations about the future of learning.
About Stanford Graduate School of Education
The mission of Stanford Graduate School of Education is to produce groundbreaking research, model programs, and exceptional leaders in education to achieve equitable, accessible, and effective learning for all.
