This lecture series connects leading educational researchers with classroom teachers. It is an honor to host this event free of charge so that educators and fulfill their commitment to lifelong learning. Attendees earn professional development units for attending the lecture series events.
6:00 p.m. November 29, 2006 |
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 David A. Stevens, Ed.D. |
Dr. Stevens is a Developmental Psychologist and Cognitive Scientist who has dedicated his career to the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions that improve cognitive abilities. His work is based on the hypothesis that children identified with learning difficulties often have underdeveloped cognitive abilities that contribute to academic and social frustration. The most profitable means to improve these situations is by helping children to develop their areas of weakness. |
| Executive Director of the Cognitive Development Center of Lexington, Dr. Stevens and his staff design and implement programs to improve the cognitive abilities of students with learning difficulties. David received a $2 million federal grant with Lexia Learning Systems to develop educational software that improves cognitive abilities based on his research at Harvard University , where he received his Doctorate in Human Development and Psychology. Currently David's research focus is on the development of an elementary math educational software program for Symphony Learning. | |
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| Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams holds a Ph.D. from Brown University in cognitive psychology and developmental psychology and is internationally regarded for her research and applied work in the area of cognition and education. |
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Recipient of the American Educational Research Association's Sylvia Scribner Award for outstanding research, Dr. Adams's contributions include the landmark book, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print (MIT Press). On the applied side, she is Senior Literacy Advisor for Instruction for PBS's Between the Lions , as well as senior author of Fox in a Box , an award-winning, standards-based literacy assessment kit. Dr. Adams has also written/designed three empirically proven instructional programs: on thinking skills for middle school students, on reading and writing for elementary school students, and on linguistic awareness for emergent readers and special needs students. |
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