Education Workshop - Autumn 2024 Schedule

The Workshop on Education Lecture Series is held on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. in Saieh Hall 146.

Date Name of Guest Speaker, Workshop Title Recent Publications
October 10th, 2024

Nicholas Kryczka

Workshop: American Lesson Plan: Research Beyond the Culture Wars in US History Teaching

American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools

 

October 17th, 2024

Derek Rury

Workshop: Gender-STEM Stereotypes and College Major Choice

 
October 24th, 2024

Ari Anisfeld

Workshop: Language, Identity, and Ethnic Cohesion in Schools

Rohen Shah

Workshop: When the Student Becomes the Master: A Field Experiment on Learning by Teaching

 
October 31st, 2024

Xiangdong Yang

Workshop: A Theory-Driven Approach to Item Design: The Case of Mental Rotation Tasks

 
November 7th, 2024

Sharon Greenberg and Anthony Bryk

Workshop: Some Learnings and Reflections from “How a City Learned to Improve its Schools”

Bryk, A.S, S. Greenberg, A. Bertani, P. Sebring, S. Tozer, T. Knowles, How a City Learned to Improve its Schools, 2023, Harvard Education Press.

 

  1. Greenberg and A.S. Bryk, Changing the School System Improvement Narrative, Kappan, March 2024. pp12 – 17.
November 14th, 2024

Geoffrey Borman

Workshop: Access to Free Books Improves Literacy Achievement: Evidence from a Five-Year Randomized Trial

 

 

November 21st, 2024

Linxi Lu

Workshop: Navigating Trade-offs in Early Math: How Context Influences Parent-Child Interaction

 
December 5th, 2024

Emily Rauscher

Workshop: Priceless Benefits: Effects of School Spending on Child Mortality

 

For additional information on the Workshop on Education Lecture Series, to be added to the distribution list, or if you are a person with disabilities who may need assistance, please contact one of our Workshop Coordinators: Peyton Cunningham (cpcunningham@uchicago.edu), Della Cox (della@uchicago.edu), Emma Heidorn (eheidorn@uchicago.edu), or Jake Nicoll (jwnicoll@uchicago.edu).

Guanglei Hong is the Committee on Education Chair and Faculty Representative.