TEC Presenters
Annual Speaker Series: Past and Present
Each year, the TEC invites renowned educational leaders, scholars and authors to share their research and conduct workshops for our faculty and the larger community. Past speakers have included:
- Daniel Coyle - Author of The Talent Code, Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.
- Robert and Michelle Root-Bernstein - Creative and Innovative Thinking Series
- Ron Ritchhart of Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Ellen Winner of Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education and Professor of Psychology at Boston College
- John Ratey author and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate School and author of the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- Andrew Meltzoff and Patricia Kuhl Co-directors of the Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences (ILABS) at the University of Washington
- Alison Gopnik Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkley
- Lela Gandini co-author of The Hundred Languages of Children and the United States Liaison for the dissemination of the early childhood education approach known as the Reggio Emilia Approach
- Susan Etheredge Professor of Early Education and Child Study at Smith College
- Tony Wagner Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of The Global Achievement Gap
- Kieran Egan - Professor of Educational Theory at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver British Columbia and author of The Future of Education

