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    Speaker Profile

    Layne Kalbfleisch

    Owner/Founder of 2E Consults® LLC; Former Professor of Educational Psychology and Neuroscience, George Mason University, and was affiliated with the Department of Pediatrics, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Former Adjunct Professor, Northern New Mexico College; studies and coaches neurodivergence and the relationship among talents, natural skills, and disability, and how the human brain supports ingenuity and problem solving across life; Former Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Group Brain Dynamics in Learning Project; Member, United States Department of State Committee on Exceptional Children; Author, Teaching to Every Kid's Potential: Simple Neuroscience Lessons to Liberate Learners (2021), “Twice-Exceptional Students: Gifted Students With Learning Disabilities” (2013, Fundamentals of Gifted Education) and "The Neural Plasticity of Giftedness" (2009, International Handbook on Gifted)

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    Past Talks

    Teaching Stronger Brains
    Promoting Student Strengths, Character, Compassion, Hope, and Autonomy in a Deficit-Focused Age
    Fairmont San Francisco or Virtually via Zoom
    February 20-22, 2025
    The Science of Teaching
    Applying Brain Science and COVID Lessons to Improve Teaching, Schools, and Learning Spaces
    The Fairmont, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
    February 18-20, 2022