Brown Bag Seminar Series

Check here for details of this year's lineup for SCOPE's 2013-2014 Brown Bag Seminar Series.The complete lineup features: 

October 21, 2013
"Using Student Test Scores to Compare Teachers"
Edward Haertel, Jacks Family Professor of Education, Emeritus, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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November 4, 2013
"From Compton to East Palo Alto: Reflections on Race, Ethnicity, and Public Education in California, Past and Present"
Albert Camarillo, Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor, Professor of American History, and Special Assistant to the Provost, Stanford University
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December 9, 2013
"Improving Educational Outcomes By Improving Parenting"
Michael Wald, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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January 27, 2014
"The Language-Identity Dilemma: How Language, Identity, and Cognition Impact Students' Learning"
Bryan Brown, Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University
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February 10, 2014
"Race, Dialect Prejudice and Literacy in the Zimmerman Trial and Beyond"
John Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University; and Sharese King, Linguistics Doctoral Student, Stanford University
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February 24, 2014
"Mindsets: Increasing Educational Equity and Opportunity"
Carol Dweck, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University. Co-sponsored by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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March 10, 2014
"Using Professional Development to Create Equity and Teacher Leadership: A Canadian Story"
Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar and Interim Executive Director, Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education
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April 14, 2014
"Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn"
Dorothy Steele, former Executive Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University; and Becki Cohn-Vargas, Director, Not In Our School. Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities.
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April 28, 2014
"Learning From Successful Practice: Social Emotional Learning in Three Diverse Urban High Schools"
MarYam Hamedani, Associate Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
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