“Karen spoke at our summer institute. Very down to earth, very inspiring.”
I facilitate workshops on a variety of topics for teaching teams, and curriculum development teams. Below is a sampling of speaking and workshop titles, by category:
On USING LITERATURE TO DEVELOP Students’ PRACTICAL WISDOM
Using our literature, and borrowing from philosophy, psychology, research, and personal experience to cultivate wisdom and higher-order thinking.
Asking the Questions that are Already Inside Them: Foregrounding the Cultivation of Student Wisdom
Using Literature to Deepen Young Adults’ Social-Emotional Learning and Lives
On PUTTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE IN THE CLASSROOm
Our rules to keep discussions fruitful, generative, challenging, and safe for risk-taking
Acronyms Worth Keeping: Harnessing Learning Theory in the Context and Service of Real-World Teaching
Practical Classroom Applications of Key Theoretical Concepts
What Can the Arts Teach Us about Teaching?
On The Democratic classroom and STUDENT AGENCY
Students in our Natural World in Literature class taking a photo-opp break from reading each others’ work prior to a teach-around
How Sharing Power in the Classroom Produces Knowledge, Develops Responsibility, and Cultivates Joy
Hall Passes and Locked Bathrooms: How to Transition Out of Helicopter Schooling
On TEACHERS’ LIVES AND IDENTITIEs
On some days, we all need help remembering this.
Connection and Content: Bringing Our Real Selves and Our Best Selves to Our Students
Using Mindfulness Principles to Address Our Own Thinking About Our Teaching Lives
How To Be an Inspiring Mentor Teacher
On Working within the Young adult ecosystem
Brainstorming the salient issues and features of teen friendships at the start of our Friendship in Literature course
Covid and the Crisis of Connection
Young Adults and Friendship: Why Understanding and Teaching about Friendship Theory Can Be a Game Changer
Social Learning and Identity Formation in the Online World
On Schooling and adhd
Working Effectively with Divergent Thinkers
Working Effectively with ADHD Kids and their Parents (for teachers)
Working Effectively with Your ADHD Kid’s Teachers (for parents)