Overloaded and Under Prepared: Strategies for Healthy, Successful Kids
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Join Dr. Denise Pope in conversation about successful kids and stronger schools, moderated by Zack Bodner, OFJCC CEO.
Today's high-pressure, fast-paced culture can interfere with healthy child development. When we are too focused on test scores, performance and grades, we may deny kids the time and energy they need to effectively tackle the demanding work of growing up. Kids are stressed and shockingly unprepared for advanced learning and adulthood. Dr. Pope will share strategies to make immediate changes at home, school and in the community to ensure kids live balanced and academically fulfilled lives.
Dr. Pope is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods and service learning. She co-founded Challenge Success, a research and intervention project that provides schools and families the tools they need to raise healthy, motivated students.
Challenge Success is an expanded version of the SOS: Stressed-Out Students project that Dr. Pope founded and directed from 2003-2008. She lectures on parenting techniques and strategies to increase student well-being, engagement with learning, and integrity.
Dr. Pope is lead author of "Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids" (Jossey Bass, July 2015). Her first book, "Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students" (Yale University Press, 2001) was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal.
Dr. Pope is a three-time recipient of the Stanford University School of Education Outstanding Teacher and Mentor Award, and was honored with the 2012 Education Professor of the Year "Educators' Voice Award" from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. She has been featured on CNN, World News Tonight, the Today Show, NPR and other television and radio programs.
$20 General Public, $15 Members and J-Pass holders.
Presented by The Oshman Family JCC