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    Speaker Profile

    Denise C. Pope, PhD

    Senior Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Education; Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, Challenge Success; Co-Host, “School's In” Podcast; Author, “Doing School”: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (2001); Co-Author, “Stressed, Tired, and Yearning for Support” (2025, Kappan Online), “What Students and Teachers Do to Build Positive Reciprocal Relationships: A Study Co-Led by Youth and Adult Researchers” (2023, American Journal of Education), “A Caring Climate That Promotes Belonging and Engagement” (2022, Phi Delta Kappa), and Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids (2015)

    Denise C.Pope, PhD

    Upcoming Talks

    Teaching Social Brains
    Applying Brain Science to Improve Social Skills, Belonging, Behavior, Regulation, and Learning
    4) EMPOWERING MINDS & VALUES
    The Fairmont Atop Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
    February 12-14, 2027

    Past Talks

    Teaching Stronger Brains
    Promoting Student Strengths, Character, Compassion, Hope, and Autonomy in a Deficit-Focused Age
    Promoting Mindsets ghj_amp Self-Regulation
    Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom
    February 20-22, 2025
    Teaching Engaged Brains
    Improving Student Attention, Motivation, and Mindsets in a Disengaged, Distracted Age
    Imaginative Minds, LD ghj_amp Giftedness
    The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
    February 22-24, 2024
    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