Each year at our annual Symposium, Matthew Shea and Courtney Belolan manage the Voices Hub. It’s a recording space set in the Innovation Corner where attendees can drop by and share their thoughts, lessons learned, and process the ideas they’re getting through the conference. Over the next several weeks, we’ll share some of the most thought-provoking and engaging conversations. In this interview, education researcher Dr. Camille Farrington and Raikes Foundation program manager Gisele Shorter describe initiatives that are supporting equitable learning environments and the conditions that foste ..read more

The following is the final excerpt and transcript of the Aurora Institute 2019 Symposium opening keynote address, delivered by Chan Zuckerberg Director of Whole Child Development Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard. In this segment, Dr. Stafford-Brizard has a Q&A session with Pamela Cantor, M.D., who presented the closing keynote of the previous year’s symposium. This wide-ranging discussion focuses on what developmental science teaches us about the connections between relationships and learning, the primacy of context in determining a student’s engagement with learning, and how a focus on mental ..read more

The following is an excerpt and transcript of the Aurora Institute 2019 Symposium opening keynote address, delivered on October 28th by Chan Zuckerberg Director of Whole Child Development Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard. In the address, titled Broadening the Definition of Student Success: A Spotlight on Mental Health, she dives deeply into what it could look like to integrate mental health, as one pillar of whole-child development, into schools. She offers two riveting examples from the teacher and learner perspective on how a school could create space for the personal growth, connection, and trus ..read more

Today, the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) published Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development, offering nine recommendations for state and federal education policy based on research on how students learn and develop. Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn and grow academically and develop holistically to achieve successful outcomes in their education and in life. With advancements in neuroscience, psychology, brain science, and other disciplines, there is gre ..read more

Emerging knowledge from the learning sciences provides evidence and insights into the dynamic nature of learning, child development, motivation, and cognition. School leaders can harness this knowledge base to create a new vision of how to best support student learning in K-12 education systems. However, the policy environment to support such transformation is not in perfect alignment with the learning sciences. iNACOL Policy Director Natalie Truong recently sat down to talk about bringing education policy and the science of learning and development into alignment with Courtney Belolan and Ma ..read more

Each year at our annual Symposium, Matthew Shea and Courtney Belolan manage the Voices Hub. It’s a recording space set in the Innovation Corner where attendees can drop by and share their thoughts, lessons learned, and process the ideas they’re getting through the conference. Over the next several weeks, we’ll share some of the most thought-provoking and engaging conversations. In this interview, education researcher Dr. Camille Farrington and Raikes Foundation program manager Gisele Shorter describe initiatives that are supporting equitable learning environments and the conditions that foste ..read more

The following is the final excerpt and transcript of the Aurora Institute 2019 Symposium opening keynote address, delivered by Chan Zuckerberg Director of Whole Child Development Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard. In this segment, Dr. Stafford-Brizard has a Q&A session with Pamela Cantor, M.D., who presented the closing keynote of the previous year’s symposium. This wide-ranging discussion focuses on what developmental science teaches us about the connections between relationships and learning, the primacy of context in determining a student’s engagement with learning, and how a focus on mental ..read more

The following is an excerpt and transcript of the Aurora Institute 2019 Symposium opening keynote address, delivered on October 28th by Chan Zuckerberg Director of Whole Child Development Dr. Brooke Stafford-Brizard. In the address, titled Broadening the Definition of Student Success: A Spotlight on Mental Health, she dives deeply into what it could look like to integrate mental health, as one pillar of whole-child development, into schools. She offers two riveting examples from the teacher and learner perspective on how a school could create space for the personal growth, connection, and trus ..read more

Today, the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL) published Aligning Education Policy with the Science of Learning and Development, offering nine recommendations for state and federal education policy based on research on how students learn and develop. Research on how students learn and develop is providing teachers, practitioners, and policymakers with insights on how to help students learn and grow academically and develop holistically to achieve successful outcomes in their education and in life. With advancements in neuroscience, psychology, brain science, and other disciplines, there is gre ..read more

Emerging knowledge from the learning sciences provides evidence and insights into the dynamic nature of learning, child development, motivation, and cognition. School leaders can harness this knowledge base to create a new vision of how to best support student learning in K-12 education systems. However, the policy environment to support such transformation is not in perfect alignment with the learning sciences. iNACOL Policy Director Natalie Truong recently sat down to talk about bringing education policy and the science of learning and development into alignment with Courtney Belolan and Ma ..read more