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Speaker Series 2009 | 2010
NurtureShock
October 7, 2009 • 9 am at Burke’s
Award-winning journalist Po Bronson presents research behind his latest book NurtureShock. The book provides a revolutionary perspective on childhood that upends a library’s worth of conventional wisdom. Many of society’s strategies for nurturing children are backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Find out what really works!
Raising Resilient Children and Teens
November 12, 2009 • 9 am at Greek Orthodox Hall, 245 Valencia Street
Dr. Ken Ginsburg, a nationally recognized pediatrician in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, aims to start a national dialogue among parents and children of all ages to redefine perceptions of success, and evaluate the significant physical and emotional damage that stress and everyday pressure can have on development. He creates strategies to raise resilient children who are capable of dealing with life’s difficulties and who learn from personal defeat.
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
November 18, 2009 • 9 am at Burke’s
Dr. John Ratey, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, presents the latest research on how certain exercise can optimize brain function. He demonstrates exactly how and why physical activity is crucial to the way we think and feel. Find out how to supercharge your mental circuits to beat stress, sharpen your thinking, lift your mood, boost your memory, and much more.
Teen Panel: Dealing and Succeeding with Learning Differences
January 29, 2010, 9 am at Burke’s
Several Burke’s alumnae, all with learning differences, return to Burke's for this teen panel. These girls, currently attending local high schools, will share their experiences with Burke's parents, faculty and students alike. Topics covered during the discussion and Q&A could include: navigating middle and high school, successfully making the transition between the two, identifying and leveraging support resources and taking advantage of one’s own strengths to overcome obstacles. Most importantly this group can speak to surviving the emotional roller coaster ride from diagnosis to acceptance, and academic success.
Brain Rules
March 2, 2010 – Great Girls Deserve Great Schools Symposium • 9 am at Burke’s
Dr. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, shares his insight into how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. Brain scientists have uncovered details every parent and teacher should know. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget and so important to repeat new knowledge? Medina describes twelve brain rules – what scientists know for sure about how our brains work – and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives.
Smart Parenting in an On-line World
March 23, 2010 • 7 pm at Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street
Ann Zehren from CommonSense Media, B.J. Fogg, Stanford Professor and author of The Psychology of Facebook, and Matt Levinson, Assistant Director and Head of the Middle School at Nueva School, participate in a panel discussion on parenting in the digital age. This community forum will speak to the unique challenges faced by parents trying to manage and understand the revolution in communication and information technology that are part of their children’s lives. It is an extraordinary opportunity for parents to gain insight into the educational, social and psychological implications of growing up as a digital native.
The Mindful Brain
April 20, 2010 • 9 am at Burke’s
Dr. Dan Siegel presents persuasive scientific evidence that meditation and the mindful state not only produce improvement in well-being, but also detectable physical changes in the brain. The burgeoning evidence of the extraordinary plasticity of the human brain suggests that if we are not mindful, if we are in unhealthy relationships, and if we are without any kind of inspiration or moral compass, our brains get wired in ways that they should not. And the earlier in life that it happens, the more difficult it is to unravel later!
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Kim’s Book Group 2009 | 2010
Please join Head of School, Kim Wargo, in reading and discussing these thought-provoking books on parenting and issues affecting our girls.
Girls will be Girls – Joann Deak
October 28, 2009 • 8:30 am or 5:30 pm at Burke’s
 Bringing together stories and lessons from more than twenty years as a school psychologist, Deak is renowned for her knowledge of what makes girls ages six to sixteen tick. Deak looks past the “scare” stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls, and draws from the latest brain research to illustrate the exciting new ways in which we can help our girls learn and thrive. She gives us the voices of girls themselves as they struggle with body image, self-esteem, intellectual growth, peer pressure, and media messages. The result is a masterful book that addresses the key issues for girls growing up.
Born Digital – John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
February 2, 2010 • 8:30 am at Burke’s
 The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world – are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, politics, culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. A smart, practical guide to a brave new world and its complex inhabitants, Born Digital will be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused adults who want to understand the digital present – and shape the digital future.
Elsewhere, USA – Dalton Conley
May 7, 2010 • 8:30 am at Burke’s
 Over the past three decades, boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while scrolling through e-mails on our BlackBerrys? How many of us feel overextended, as we are challenged to play multiple roles–worker, boss, parent, spouse, friend, and client–all in the same instant? Dalton Conley, social scientist and writer provides us with an X-ray view of our new social reality.
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