{"id":4252,"date":"2019-02-14T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T22:39:18","slug":"welcome-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/welcome-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a regular blog reader, you just might be a frequent Learning and the Brain conference attendee. (I got my start in 2007, and haven&#8217;t stopped since.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_1253800_Credit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4256\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_1253800_Credit-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_1253800_Credit-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_1253800_Credit-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/AdobeStock_1253800_Credit-1024x645.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re gathering &#8212; starting tomorrow! &#8212; at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/Event-380\/Educating-with-Empathy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Educating with Empathy<\/a>: cultivating kindness, compassion, empathy, and good behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the speakers have featured recently on the blog. <a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/attack-of-the-teenage-brain-john-median\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Medina&#8217;s most recent book<\/a> has shown up at least twice.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/education-speakers\/Rebecca-Gotlieb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gotleib<\/a> &#8212; this blog&#8217;s book reviewer &#8212; will be presenting on the power of teens&#8217; social-emotional skills.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be offer a pre-conference session: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/Event-380\/Educating-with-Empathy\/PreCon-Workshops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Understanding Adolescence, Teaching Adolescents.<\/a>&#8221; We&#8217;ll be talking about teenage cognition, emotion &#8212; and even technology use.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed getting to know many of you over my blogging years. I hope you&#8217;ll stop by and introduce yourselves! I&#8217;m easy to find: I look a lot like the guy on the right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a regular blog reader, you just might be a frequent Learning and the Brain conference attendee. (I got my start in 2007, and haven&#8217;t stopped since.) We&#8217;re gathering &#8212; starting tomorrow! &#8212; at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco to discuss Educating with Empathy: cultivating kindness, compassion, empathy, and good behavior. Many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}