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2016 Speaker Series on Education: Denise Pope, Ph.D.

February 9 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Cabrillo College Crocker Theatre

6500 Soquel
Aptos, CA 95003 United States

Denise Pope Challenge Success

Please join us for our sixth annual Speaker Series on Education, this year featuring senior lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education and Co-founder of Challenge Success, Denise Pope, Ph.D.

Seating is very limited so please click here to register now and  reserve your complimentary tickets.

Denise will be speaking about her latest book, Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools, and Healthy Successful Kids . For the past thirteen years, she has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She lectures nationally on parenting techniques and pedagogical strategies to increase student health, engagement with learning, and integrity. Her book Doing School: How We are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal.

Denise is a three-time recipient of the Stanford University Graduate School of Education Outstanding Teacher and Mentor Award. She has been featured on CNN, World News Tonight, the Today Show, NPR, among other television and radio programs.

Supriya McDonald, Head of Mount Madonna School, first heard Denise Pope speak at a CAIS Head’s Conference and was impressed with her ability to understand and articulate the challenges that our students and parents face in the current climate for college admissions and the race to get ahead and be successful. Having researched these growing issues of mental well-being for many years, Dr. Pope’s new book is a practical guide for teachers, administrators, parents and students with strategies that can begin to change the current paradigm, decrease stress levels and maximizxe real learning experiences.

For more information about Denise Pope and Challenge Success visit www.challengesuccess.org

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