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Empowering Children in K-12 Classrooms: Teaching for Deep Learning Enacts Social Justice
Disadvantaged children are given a chance for a brighter future when they are treated fairly within our education systems. The way that we can enact social justice in the classroom and beyond is by empowering children. When kids feel empowered, and develop their own perspectives, ideas and voices, they become better able to act and speak out against inequity and injustice more broadly. There is an abundance of compelling empirical evidence for the benefits of teaching to empower children, from the learning sciences. The purpose of this presentation is to curate and make this evidence accessible, and also to provide creative, exciting ways for teachers to implement and support deep, authentic and transformative learning on the ground. I will provide hands-on suggestions for empowering children as a pathway toward deep, transformative learning and greater equity and social justice in our society.
This talk was presented at:
2025 National ESEA Conference
February 2025
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Austin, TX
For more information:
www.wendyostroff.com
Speakers
Wendy Ostroff
Wendy L. Ostroff, Ph.D. is an applied developmental and cognitive psychologist and Professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, a pioneering interdisciplinary and seminar-based program that prepares prospective teacher/learners to be critical readers, writers and thinkers who bridge cognitive science with innovative pedagogies. The author of the books Understanding How Young Children Learn (2012), Cultivating Curiosity in K-12 Classrooms (2016), and Empowering Young Children (2022), Dr. Ostroff is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years of experience in state-of-the-art teacher training. She leads workshops and professional development events worldwide on curiosity, cognition and the brain (www.wendyostroff.com)
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