Speaker Profile

Gravity Goldberg, EdD

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University; Director and Literacy Consultant, Gravity Goldberg, LLC; Former Instructor, Teachers College, Columbia University; Author, The Body-Brain Connection: Evidence-Based Ways to Reduce Anxiety, Boost Engagement, and Increase Comprehension Across Classrooms (2025), Teach Like Yourself (2018), and Mindsets and Moves (2015); Co-Author, Active Learning: 40 Teaching Methods to Engage Students in Every Class and Every Subject, Grades 6-12 (2023), Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, Grade 4 (2020), What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? (2017), and Conferring With Readers (2007)
GravityGoldberg, EdD

Past Talks

Teaching Whole Learners
Applying Science to Create Social, Engaged, Thriving, Curious, Critical Thinkers
STRONGER LEARNERS & SELF-DIRECTION
Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA
November 14-16, 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
Schooling the Self (Cancelled)
Promoting Self-Compassion, Awareness, and Authenticity in Schools
Effects of Anxiety and Stress on Achievement
New York, NY
May 01-03, 2020
Merging Minds & Technology
Transform Schools with Neuroscience, Robots, Makerspaces, and Virtual Reality
How Early Experiences Mold Learners
Held at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, MA
November 10-12, 2017
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