We are excited to host our culminating event of the year, and hope that you join us for the 2024 Annual Ball Lecture featuring Dr Kris Gutiérrez of the University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Kris D. Gutiérrez is the Carol Liu Professor of Education and brings expertise in the learning sciences, literacy, educational policy, and qualitative and design-based approaches to inquiry. Gutiérrez is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Education and the International Society of the Learning Sciences, and past president of the American Educational Research Association. Gutiérrez held a presidential appointment from President Obama to the National Board for the Institute of Education Sciences, where she served as Vice Chair.

Gutiérrez’s research employs a critical approach to the Learning Sciences and to Cultural Historical Activity Theory, examining the cultural dimensions of learning in designed learning environments, with attention to students and families from non-dominant and translingual communities. For example, her work on Third Spaces examines the affordances of syncretic approaches to literacy and learning, new media literacies, STEM learning, and the re-mediation of functional systems of learning. Her work in social design-based experiments (SDBEs) foregrounds the historical, political, and ethical dimensions of design research and our theories of learning. Gutiérrez developed this new design methodology as a democratizing form of inquiry that seeks to make the design experimentation process a co-construction between different institutional stakeholders and communities.