 danah
boyd, Ph.D., co-author of
Hanging Out, Messing Around,
Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
audio of her afternoon presentation to 800 7th and 8th graders ( 1
hour, 13
MB/mp3, may stream)
audio of her evening presentation to 367 parents (1 1/2 hour,
21 MB/mp3, may
stream)
streaming video of her evening presentation to parents (WJHS
site)
Written summary of danah boyd's talk (pdf). More
(including videos)
 Howard
Gardner, Ph.D., author of
Five Minds for the Future
Thursday, October 29, 2009,
Gaffney Auditorium, New Trier High School
audio of
this presentation (mp3 format, 1 hr length, 29 MB, will stream, or
right-click and "save as" to download)
video links for this presentation. Attendance was 865 persons.
MakeItBetter.net
Q&A with Howard Gardner More
 Standards of GoodWork: Its Nature, Its Nurture
A professional forum, with keynote lecture by
Howard Gardner, Ph.D.
Friday, October 30, 2009 Cornog Auditorium, New Trier High School/Northfield
audio of
this presentation (mp3 format, 1 hr length, 27 MB, will stream, or
right-click and "save as" to download)
video links for this presentation. Attendance was 185 persons.
More
Tween/Teen Talking Sense
about Sex with Deborah Roffman
Thursday, January 21, 2010, Wilmette
Junior High School Auditorium
This program was not recorded to respect privacy and
encourage audience participation at the request of the speaker. 285
parents attended. There is a
report at MakeItBetter.net More
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 Slides
(and audio when we get it) from
Re-Thinking the
Drinking Age on April 23, 2009 are
here.
Information on the just past program with
futurist Gary Marx on February 4, 2009 is
here.
More than 375 people turned out to hear
Tal Ben-Shahar, the author of Happier and popular Harvard
lecturer on that topic, on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. The event is
over, but we still have links,
including streaming video his lectures for the Harvard course.
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We have a report and
copies of Dr. Stuart Twemlow's slides from his September 19. 2007 presentation titled Power Triangles:
Bullies, Targets and Bystanders.
Pushed Too Far or Left Behind?
Child Development and Curriculum Planning in Grades K-12 with
Linda Yonke, Ed.D., Superintendent, New Trier High School
Meeting Report
From Binge to Blackout
Mother and Son Team, Chris and Toren Volkmann
Speaker Website:
www.bingetoblackout.com
Meeting Report
Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain
Aaron White, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry,
Duke University Medical Center. Speaker website:
http://www.duke.edu/~amwhite/
Meeting Report
Deborah Roffman,
author of Sex and Sensibility, spoke on September 21, 2006. Here is
more about Deborah Roffman including handouts and a
meeting summary.
Ed Dunkelblau,
PhD, Director of the Institute
for Emotionally Intelligent Learning spoke on Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
January 25, 2006 Meeting notes, referenced works,
weblinks.
Dr. Michael Bradley
spoke on More “Yes, Your
Teen is Crazy”on April 19, 2006. He has a
website and a monthly emailed
newsletter.
Information on Internet Safety and Children prepared by Charlene Entman,
(then) webmaster at New Trier High School.
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