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    Speaker Profile

    Kristen H. Turner, PhD

     Professor, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies; Director, Drew Writing Project and Digital Literacies Collaborative; Director of Teacher Education, Drew University; Director, Contemporary Learning and Interdisciplinary Research (CLAIR), Fordham University Graduate School of Education; Consultant, National Writing Project; Lead Editor, "Teachers, Profs, Parents: Writers Who Care" Blog; Co-Author, Argument in the Real World: Teaching Adolescents to Read and Write Digital Texts (2017) and Connected Reading: Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital Age (2015)
    Kristen H.Turner, PhD

    Past Talks

    Teaching Generation AI-Z
    Advancing Schooling, Skills, Relationships, and Learning in a Distracted, Uncertain, AI Age
    The Fairmont SF, San Francisco, CA
    February 13-15, 2026
    Future-Ready Brains
    Teaching Students to Think, Create, Innovate, Learn, and Adapt for an Anxious, AI Age
    NY Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom
    April 18-20, 2024
    Merging Minds & Technology
    Transform Schools with Neuroscience, Robots, Makerspaces, and Virtual Reality
    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
    Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
    February 17-19, 2017