Psychologist; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia; Member, National Board for Education Sciences; Writer, “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” Column, American Educator; Author, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy (Forthcoming, 2022), “Unlocking the Science of How Kids Think: A New Proposal for Reforming Teacher Education” (2018, Education Next), “A Mental Model of the Learner: Teaching the Basic Science of Educational Psychology to Future Teachers” (2017, Mind, Brain, & Education), The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the Mind Reads (2017), Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do (2015), When Can You Trust the Experts? How to Tell Good Science from Bad in Education (2012), and Why Don’t Students Like School? (2010)
Events
The Science of Reading: A Whirlwind Tour
Keynote: Helping Kids Teach Themselves
Knowledge and Practice: The Real Keys to Critical Thinking