Challenge Success Fall 2010 Conference Plenary

Parents, youth, educators, and community members are invited to register for a free plenary discussion on strategies for improving teen health and engagement with learning on Friday, October 15 at 7 p.m. at Stanford University’s Memorial Auditorium.

New York Times best-selling author Wendy Mogel will provide the keynote address. The plenary discussion kicks off a conference titled “Walking the Talk: Aligning Actions and Values for Youth Well-Being,” sponsored by Challenge Success. Mogel will join Challenge Success co-founders Denise Clark Pope, Madeline Levine, and Jim Lobdell, and local students to discuss ways to foster emotionally healthy, balanced teens in a high-stakes, high-pressure world.

Mogel is author of the best-selling parenting book, The Blessing of a Skinned Knee (2001), and an internationally known clinical psychologist and public speaker. Her soon-to-be-released book, The Blessing of a B Minus, will be published by Scribner on October 12.  Pope is a Stanford education senior lecturer and author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic and Miseducated Students (2001); Levine is a clinical psychologist and author of the best-selling book, The Price of Privilege (2006); and, Lobdell is an educational consultant and co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, the nation’s most innovative publisher of K-12 social studies curriculum.

Members of the public interested in attending the plenary session are required to RSVP. To RSVP or to learn more, visit http://www.challengesuccess.org.