Characterizing Effective Teaching
At CANDLE, we explore how teachers’ pedagogical practices along with their mindsets, beliefs, and attitudes support deeper learning and social-emotional development of adolescents. We aim to holistically understand the deeply social and emotional work of teaching through classroom observations, in-depth interviews, physiological recordings, and brain imaging of teachers as they authentically engage with their students around rigorous content.
Partners
Bank Street College of Education, UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools, Intellectual Virtues Academy Long Beach, ABCUSD, Renaissance Arts Academy, and New Village Girls Academy.
A teacher participant’s brain scan. See USC Rossier Magazine’s article, “School of Thought: Studying the implicit processes—inside and out—that make educators great.”
Resources
The Council of Distinguished Scientists Meeting on Next Generation Research
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang served on The Aspen Institute’s Council of Distinguished Scientists. She spoke at the release of The Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) report.
BRIEF
This research brief written for The Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) outlines the nationally-applicable definition of SEAD.
PODCAST
In this Unboxed Learning podcast, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang talks about the ways in which young people make meaning and construct a sense of self.
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Media Features
Long Beach Post
USC Rossier Magazine
Education Week
Education Week
Funders
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Templeton Foundation
Army Research Laboratory-West