As families prepare for a new school year in which distance learning continues, how can caregivers support their young ones' learning while establishing a daily routine and marking progress (even on those not-so-good days)?

Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Jelena Obradović, associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education and director of the Stanford Project on Adaptation and Resilience in Kids (SPARK). Jelena will offer practical suggestions for families with children in kindergarten through elementary school, including tips for setting up a welcoming learning space at home and cultivating a sense of closeness and connection.

About the speaker

Jelena is an associate professor at Stanford University in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences program at Stanford Graduate School of Education. Jelena’s research examines how the interplay of children’s physiological stress arousal, self-regulatory skills, and quality of caregiving environments contributes to their health, learning, and well-being over time. She also studies how caregivers’ executive functions and emotion regulation skills contribute to teaching and parenting practices that promote or undermine child development. Her current work involves the development of novel, pragmatic, scalable assessments of executive functions, emotion regulation, and motivation. She completed a PhD in developmental psychology at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, and postdoctoral training in psychophysiology at the University of British Columbia. She is the recipient of a Jacobs Foundation Advanced Research Fellowship, a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award, and Early Career Research Contribution Award from the Society for Research in Child Development.