Teaching Lunches from Recent Years

The Program in Teaching invites outside speakers, faculty members, and student groups to present monthly on an array of topics. Lunches are held 12-1 PM on Wednesdays at Faculty House, with time for in-depth questions. In this intimate format, the Program has hosted educators, social workers, policy makers, and scholars. Below are some of the topics that have been featured in recent years.

• Art Activism and Engagement

  Studio in Our Interdisciplinary Climate Reality
  Pallavi Sen, Department of Art

  Take a Seat: Art and Activism with Teens
  Jenna Solis, Ella Engel-Snow, and Faith Evans, Bridgehampton Child Care Center, Bridgehampton, NY

  Working for Social Justice with Teenage Girls in NYC
  Allana Clarke, Department of Art

• Child Development

  How Children Learn Complex Scientific Ideas
  Deborah Kelemen, Boston University

  How Children Develop Ideas about Math
  Eliza Congdon, Department of Psychology

  Optimizing Informal Learning Environments for Children and Families
  Helen Hadani, Head of Research, Center for Childhood Creativity

• Curriculum

  What Should K-12 Students Learn about History?
  Sara Dubow, Department of History

  Bringing Math into the Lives of Parents and Young Children
  Omo Moses, Founder of the Young People’s Project and MathTalk

• Education Policy

  Five Myths about Education
  Nate Kornell, Department of Psychology

  What’s a Good School?
  Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts

  How Health Care & Early Childhood Programs Contribute to Education
  Elizabeth Peacock-Chambers, MD

• Inclusive Learning

  Addressing unconscious bias in local classrooms
  NAPS Student Leaders

  Reflections on Working Towards Educational Equity
  Jay Altman '87

• Pedagogy

  Teaching Math
  Kathy Erikson, Recipient of The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching

  Developing a Slow, Racially Literate Pedagogy
  Kelsey Jones, Program in Teaching/Africana Studies

  How I Teach
  Amy Salinetti, Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School Kindergarten Teacher

• Professional Journey

  The World of Middle School
  Alex Jones ’14, 6th Grade Teacher, The Advent School

  My Journey from Corporate Lawyer to High School Teacher
  Lawton Hawkins '87

• Roundtable Discussions
  • How to Have Difficult Conversations in the Classroom, and Should We?
  • How Public Should Public Schools Be?
  • Who Should Have a Say? A Roundtable Discussion about Stakeholders in K-12 Schooling
  • What Changes Should We Make in Our Schools?
  • What Will the Next Four Years Mean for Public Education?
  • What do Hospitals and Schools Have in Common?
  • Children’s Rights in School

• School Leadership

  Changing Schools from Within
  Steve Shapiro, Bexley Public Schools

  The Inside View, from a School Principal
  Claire Shin ’99, Founding Principal of Achievement First University Prep High

  What We Do
  Eve Colavito, Chief Education Officer of DREAM Charter School (NYC)

• Student Support

  Teaching Children with Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties
  Nora Bearman, LMSW, New York, NY

  What If: The Power of Imagination
  Noor Al Radi, Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist, and Nancy Tarshis, Supervisor of Speech-Language Services, Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, Bronx, NY

• Teacher Reflection

  Reflection, Friendship & The Art of Teaching
  Maggie Clark, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and Rebecca Buchanan, University of Maine

  Pedagogical Triage: Negotiating Professional Obligations and Student Need
  Hilary Tackie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University