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    Speaker Profile

    Daniel L. Schwartz, PhD

     I. James Quillen Dean; Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Educational Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Director of Stanford’s "Transforming Learning Accelerator," a major interdisciplinary initiative advancing the science and design of learning to bring effective and equitable solutions to the world; Director, AAALab, Stanford University; Co-Host of the Stanford podcast and SiriusXM radio show School’s In; Co-Author, "The Relation Between Academic Achievement and the Spontaneous Use of Design-Thinking Strategies" (2020, Computers & Education), "Educating and Measuring Choice" (2019, Journal of the Learning Sciences), "Cognitive Science Foundations of Integer Understanding and Instruction" (2019, Constructing Number), The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, and When to Use Them (2016), and Measuring What Matters Most (2013)
    Daniel L.Schwartz, PhD

    Past Talks

    Teaching Generation AI-Z
    Advancing Schooling, Skills, Relationships, and Learning in a Distracted, Uncertain, AI Age
    Applying the Science of Learning
    The Fairmont SF, San Francisco, CA
    February 13-15, 2026
    The Science of Teaching
    Applying Brain Science and COVID Lessons to Improve Teaching, Schools, and Learning Spaces
    Social Brains ghj_amp Classrooms
    The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
    February 18-20, 2022
    The Science of Innovation
    Teaching Students to Think, Create,
    Innovate, Imagine, and Inspire
    7) DESIRABLE DIFFICULTIES & THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
    The Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    February 15-17, 2018
    The Science of How We Learn
    Engaging Memory, Motivation, Mindsets, Making and Mastery
    Anxiety, Stress, & Autism
    Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
    February 17-19, 2017