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Education Now | Curiosity and Motivation Amid the Pandemic

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Join us for this action-oriented webinar to take you into winter break and fortify you with some new ideas about how to refresh your approach and tap the intrinsic motivation of your students. How does curiosity work, and how can we spark it? How can we help young people develop and retain a love of learning and a connection to school — during these challenging times of distance and of unequal access to resources and support.

• Elizabeth Bonawitz, David J. Vitale Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at HGSE — effective, January 1, 2020

• Geneviève DeBose, National Board Certified Teacher and U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow

• Jal Mehta, Professor of Education at HGSE

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Education Now is a webinar series with insights for educators, families, and school and district leaders. The fall 2020 season of this bi-weekly series runs Wednesdays, September 30 through December 2. Episodes will be recorded and available to view later on YouTube and Facebook. Visit hgse.me/ednow for more information.

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Dec 2, 2020 05:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Dec 2, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Education Now \| Curiosity and Motivation Amid the Pandemic Register in advance for this webinar: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FnIcbTTzTaOSlXXJkgilVA Or an H.323/SIP room system: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 998 6925 7487 SIP: 99869257487@zoomcrc.com After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Jal Mehta (Professor of Education @Harvard Graduate School of Education) Jal Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research explores the role of different forms of knowledge in tackling major social and political problems, particularly problems of human improvement. He has also written extensively on what it would take to improve American education, with a particular focus on the professionalization of teaching. Jal is the author of The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), the co-author of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019), the co-editor of Education in a New Society: Renewing the Sociology of Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), and the co-editor of The Futures of School Reform (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2012). Elizabeth Bonawitz (David J. Vitale Associate Professor of Learning Sciences @Harvard Graduate School of Education) Elizabeth Bonawitz has been named the David J. Vitale Associate Professor of Learning Sciences at HGSE, a role she will assume on January 1, 2021. As a developmental psychologist and a computational cognitive scientist, Bonawitz is recognized as a prolific scholar and researcher in her field. Prior to her HGSE appointment, she has been an associate professor in psychology at Rutgers University, where she investigated the mechanisms underlying the learning process, with a focus on how young children develop their perceptions of the world. She is interested in understanding the core constructs of learning, including causal reasoning, curiosity, questioning, and creativity, with a particular interest in understanding these phenomena in pedagogical situations. Geneviève DeBose (National Board Certified Teacher and Teaching Ambassador Fellow @U.S. Department of Education) Geneviève DeBose has spent nearly 20 years teaching and learning alongside middle school students in Los Angeles, Oakland, and the south Bronx. A proud National Board Certified teacher, she believes that education is a tool for social justice and that learning experiences for children should be culturally relevant and student-centered. She is a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board, loves the Black Teacher Project and has served as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Ethnic Studies and a master's degree in Education from University of California, Berkeley. She currently works for the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools as a middle school Literacy Coach in Watts.

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