Education Now | Teaching to Navigate Challenge and Uncertainty

In this episode, "Teaching to Navigate Challenge and Uncertainty," broadcasting live at 3 pm on May 13, 2020, we will tackle these questions with Harvard’s Sarah Dryden-Peterson Ed.D.’09, a scholar whose work in refugee and migrant communities offers compelling global lessons in coping with change and Ana Tavares, Ed.M.’99, an elementary school superintendent in Boston Public Schools. Join us as we discuss how to strengthen ourselves and school communities.

Education Now is a new initiative by the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to respond to the dramatic changes in the field of education today. One aspect of that initiative is a new web series of crucial conversations about teaching, learning, leading, and living in the time of coronavirus, hosted by Richard Weissbourd, co-director of HGSE's Human Development and Psychology program and director of HGSE’s Making Caring Common project.

About Richard Weissbourd:
Richard Weissbourd is a child and family psychologist and senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work focuses on vulnerability and resilience in childhood, the opportunity gap, moral development, and effective schools and services for children. He is director of the Making Caring Common (MCC) Project, a national effort to prioritize moral and social development in child-raising and in schools.

About Sarah Dryden-Peterson:
Sarah Dryden-Peterson leads a research program that focuses on the connections between education and community development, specifically the role that education plays in building peaceful and participatory societies. Her work is situated in conflict and post-conflict settings in sub-Saharan Africa and with African Diaspora communities in the United States and Canada. She is concerned with the interplay between local experiences of children, families, and teachers and the development and implementation of national and international policy. Her research reflects connections between practice, policy, and scholarship and is strengthened through long-term collaborations with UN agencies, NGOs, and communities.

About Ana Tavares:
Ana Tavares is an elementary school superintendent in Boston Public Schools whose work focuses on increasing the learning of students of color in a bilingual setting, and partnering with teachers and families to provide access to high-quality public education for all students.

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Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training leaders to transform education in the United States and around the globe. Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, urban education, and teacher shortages, to name just a few. Our work is shaping how people teach, learn, and lead in schools and colleges as well as in after-school programs, high-tech companies, and international organizations. The HGSE community is pushing the frontiers of education, and the effects of our entrepreneurship are improving the world.

[jonathanmanley]

You guys are doing such good work through this programme. Thank you Harvard GSE. Well done Richard, you're touching the whole world.

[dansolayao]

Thank you for sharing with the public this very timely information... :)