Aspen Brain Institute Expert Series
Trauma, Instructional Loss and the Resilience of the Learning Brain
Broadcast as part of Aspen Brain Institute's Expert Series 6pm ET, Tuesday May 18th, 2021.
Today, developmental and learning science converge on one powerful message: that context - the environments, experiences and relationships in our lives - drives the development of who we become, the development of our brains and the expression of our genes. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted many of the relationships young people - and all of us - need to feel safe, manage fear and stress, ignite learning and build resilience to this crisis and to whatever the future holds. The education system we have today was never designed to develop engaged, productive, motivated learners, regardless of their individual starting points. As we prepare for the day when children return en masse to school after a year of instructional loss and trauma, we have the opportunity to apply the lessons from the science of learning and development to not only address the acute needs today but use this opportunity to build a new kind of education system designed for development, learning and thriving. Please join Pamela Cantor, M.D. and Emily Gold Mears to explore the convergence of science and the schools of the future. Broadcast as part of Aspen Brain Institute's Expert Series 6pm ET, Tuesday May 18th, 2021.
Pamela Cantor, M.D. is a national thought leader on human potential, learning and developmental science, and educational equity. After practicing child and adolescent psychiatry for nearly two decades, she founded Turnaround for Children, which translates scientific insights into tools and services to help educators establish conditions across diverse learning settings that enable all students to thrive. She is a governing partner of the Science of Learning and Development Alliance, a collaboration focused on elevating science and advancing equity in education. Dr. Cantor received an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Emily Gold Mears, J.D. is a native of Southern California where she currently lives and works. After practicing real estate law as an attorney, she transitioned to research analysis in the area of science. She consults for a New York based think tank and serves on several boards focused on science and medicine, including Aspen Brain Institute; KCRW, local public radio, Los Angeles; UCLA Longevity Center; and the Franca Fund of Genomes2People at Harvard Medical School. She is active in the Advisory Committee of the Society of Fellows at the Aspen Institute. A citizen scientist, Ms. Gold Mears has completed her first book on the critical import of science in the public domain.
