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. 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	Lu, L., Vasilyeva, M., & Laski, E. V. (2023). Minor changes, big differences? Effects of manipulating play materials on parental math talk. Developmental Psychology, 59(7), 1283–1299. Lu, L., Vasilyeva, M., & Laski, E. V. (2025). Spontaneous focus on numerosity in parents of preschoolers: Is it related to the math input they provide? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 250, 106121. Lu L., Vasilyeva M., & Laski E. (2025) Home Math Environment as a Mediator of SES Differences in Early Math Skills: A Study of Chinese Families from Disparate Backgrounds. Developmental Psychology. In Press
December 5th, 2024	Emily Rauscher Workshop: Priceless Benefits: Effects of School Spending on Child Mortality	Progressive Spending Is Efficient, Effects of Wildfires on Infant Health, Parental Educational Similarity and Infant Health

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.