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Join fellow alumni and friends for a community conversation with Dan Schwartz, Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Professors Janet Carlson and Ramón Martínez about multilingual learners, teacher retention, and challenges in today's classroom. Learn how research-based teacher training and professional development from Stanford are changing the way educators enhance the quality of learning for our most diverse communities.

All Stanford alumni and guests are welcome to attend.

This event is brought to you by the Stanford Graduate School of Education with support from the Rocky Mountains Stanford Association.

Questions? Contact Laura Glaab, MA ’14 at laura.glaab@gmail.com.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Janet Carlson is the faculty director of the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching (CSET), a research-to-practice center at the GSE whose mission is to work in partnership to solve persistent problems of practice by improving the quality of instruction, keeping instructional equity at the center of work, and developing leading teachers. Carlson's research interests include the impact of educative curriculum materials and transformative professional development on science teaching and learning. She began her career as a middle and high school science teacher and has spent the last 20 years working in science education developing curriculum, leading professional development, and conducting research. Dr. Carlson received a PhD in Instruction and Curriculum (science education) from the University of Colorado.

Ramón Antonio Martínez is an assistant professor of education and faculty affiliate for the Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His research explores the intersections of language, race and ideology in the public schooling experiences of students of color, with a particular focus on bi/multilingual Chicana/o and Latina/o children and youth. Martínez examines how students’ everyday language practices overlap with the forms of language and literacy privileged in academic settings, how competing ideologies inform language policy and classroom practice in urban schools and how pre-service teachers are prepared to teach culturally and linguistically diverse learners.

Daniel L. Schwartz is the I. James Quillen Dean and Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). An expert in human learning and educational technology, Schwartz oversees a laboratory whose computer-focused developments in science and math instruction permit original research into fundamental questions of learning. His book, The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work and When to Use Them, distills learning theories into practical solutions for use at home or in the classroom. NPR noted the book among the "best reads" for 2016.

ABOUT THE IMPROVING LIVES THROUGH LEARNING TOUR

For more than 100 years, Stanford Graduate School of Education has been committed to rigor, daring, and relevance in education research, practice, and policy. The Improving Lives Through Learning Tour shares how the school continues to build upon that legacy through local conversations about the future of learning.