I participated in the ResearchED conference in June at Oxford. ResearchED is a great UK-based, grass-roots organization consisting mostly of teachers. The goal of the organization is to bring more scientifically based research on educational practices into the education arena. Currently such arena is dominated by questionable studies that reference everyone else’s questionable studies and which are used to bolster and proliferate so-called “evidence” for bad and destructive teaching practices.
So you don’t want to miss ResearchED’s conference to be held in Washington DC on October 29, 2016. Here is the list of speakers so far:
Seth Andrews: Founder, Democracy Prep Public Schools, and Senior Advisor at the White House
Giselle Kniep: Giselle O. Martin-Kniep is an educator, researcher, program evaluator, and writer
Ulrich Boser: Senior Fellow at American Progress
Tom Bennett: Founder of researchED International, advisor to UK Government on behaviour in schools, and author.
Robert Craigen: Associate Professor of Math, University of Manitoba. Cofounder of WISE Math
Pedro de Bruyckere: Educational scientist at Arteveldehogeschool, Belgium
David Didau: writer, speaker, trainer, educational maverick, UK
Steve Dykstra: adolescent psychologist and a founding member of the Wisconsin Reading Coalition
Lisa Hansel: Director of Knowledge Matters campaign & author of Loving Language Baby Books
Dr Gary Jones: educational consultant, UK
Eric Kalenze: author of Education Is Upside-Down: Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems
Annie Murphy Paul: book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker
Professor Bryan Penfound: Professor in the Mathematics department at University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB
Robert Pondiscio: Senior fellow and vice president for external affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Ben Riley: Founder of Deans for Impact
Assistant Professor Yana Weinstein: Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts – Lowell
Professor Dylan Wiliam: Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London
Paul W. Bennett, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University
Glenn Whitman, director of the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning
John Mighton, founder, JUMP Math
Beth Greville-Giddings, Research Lead and a Teaching Assistant at Westbury School
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