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LEARNING & the BRAIN® has been bringing neuroscientists and educators together since 1999 to explore new research on the brain and learning and its application to education. In this one-day seminar format, participants will be able to earn 5 hours toward professional development credit focused on a specifi c topic such as reading. Th ese courses are designed to provide educators and clinicians with both an understanding of some of the latest research on how students learn and practical knowledge to bring back to their schools. No previous coursework about the brain is required.

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN FROM ATTENDING

• Knowledge about the latest neuroscience fi ndings on brains and learning• Methods to improve student reading, creativity, problem solving and thinking skills• Ways to improve your teaching or clinical practice through brain science• Understanding of the theory behind disabilities and classroom learning• New ideas to enhance your classroom instruction and interventions

EARN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CREDIT

Earn fi ve hours toward professional development credit for educators, psychologists, speech-language pathologists and certifi ed counselors. Please indicate the type of professional credit you are seeking on your registration form. In order to be eligible for credit, you must sign in and out at the seminar and complete an evaluation form. Access LearningAndTh eBrain.com for more information on the availability of professional development credit, or call 781-449-4010 x101.

LOCATIONS FOR ONE-DAY SEMINARS:

APRIL 14, 2015Th e Neuropsychology of Reading DisordersInspiring Creative Students for the 21st CenturyTh e Science of Smart Th inking

Palmer Events Center900 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704

APRIL 15, 2015Powerful Classroom Strategies from Neuroscience ResearchInspiring Creative Students for the 21st CenturyTh e Science of Smart Th inking

Curtis Culwell Center4999 Naaman Forest Boulevard, Garland, TX 75040

All seminars run from 8:15 AM to 2:30 PM

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FEBRUARY 1214, 2015 IN SAN FRANCISCO, CAHeld at the historic Fairmont San Francisco on Nob Hill

Co-sponsors include: Graduate School of Education, Stanford UniversityBuilding Blocks of Cognition, University of California, Berkeley

USING BRAIN SCIENCE TO BOOST MEMORY, THINKING AND LEARNINGNeuroscientists are discovering strategies that make learning easier and more eff ective, and that can boost long-term memory, thinking and academic performance. By using mnemonics, movement, active learning, discussions, gestures and varied practices, teachers can improve their students’ ability to learn, refl ect and remember. Discover how the “Science of Learning” can help boost student retention, recall and retrieval of information.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:Henry L. Roediger, III, PhD, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Department of Psychology; Principal Investigator, Memory Lab, Washington University in St. Louis; Co-Author, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (2014) and “Applications of Cognitive Science to Education” (2012, Neuroscience in Education)

Benedict J. Carey, MA, Award-Winning Science Reporter at The New York Times, who writes on subjects such as psychology, neuroscience and psychiatry; Author, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where and Why it Happens (2014)

Larry R. Squire, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Psychology, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; Research Career Scientist, Veterans Aff airs Medical Center, San Diego; Co-Author with Eric Kandel, Memory: From Mind to Molecules (2008)

Sian L. Beilock, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago; Author, How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of Physical Environment to Infl uence How You Think and Feel (2015) and Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To (2011)

REGISTER FOR UPCOMING 2015 CONFERENCES

LEARNING & the BRAIN® CONFERENCEEDUCATING WORLD-CLASS MINDS

MAY 79, 2015 IN NEW YORK, NYHeld at the Sheraton New York Times Square HotelCo-sponsors include: Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, NYC,

part of Dana’s “Brain Awareness Week” Campaign

Program in Neuroscience and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

IMPROVING EDUCATION, TEACHING AND TESTING IN A GLOBALIZED WORLDEducation is becoming a global issue. Today’s schools now have to compete with schools and universities around the world and have to teach students essential 21st Century skills to compete in a global economy, such as cross-cultural collaborations, global literacy, math, science and STEM knowledge, critical and creative thinking, technology and digital writing skills and much more. Discover what reforms in other countries seem to be working, the need for improving STEM and assessment skills, the importance of global competencies and how cognitive science can provide ways to improve learning, reading, writing, math and science skills.

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

David Perkins, PhD, Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Professor of Teaching and Learning; Founding Member/Former Co-Director, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Co-Founder, WIDE World, Harvard University; Author, Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World (2014), The Eureka Eff ect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking (2013), Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education (2009) and Outsmarting IQ (1995)

Steven Pinker, PhD, Harvard College Professor and Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University; Author, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2014) and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (2007)

Heidi Hayes Jacobs, EdD, Creator, Curriculum21; Founder and President, Curriculum Designers, Inc.; Executive Director, National Curriculum Mapping Institute and Academy; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University; Author, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (Updated 2014), Mastering Global Literacy (2013), Active Literacy Across the Curriculum (2006) and Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping (2004)

LEARNING & the BRAIN® CONFERENCE MAKING LASTING MEMORIES

Register online at LearningAndTheBrain.com or call (781) 449-4010 ext. 101 or 102.

Visit LearningAndTh eBrain.com for more information on available ASHA CEUs.

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THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF READING DISORDERS:Diagnosis and Intervention

April 14, 2015 • Austin, TXApril 15, 2015 • Garland, TX

You will examine reading from a cognitive science-based educational perspective and learn to classify reading disorders into four distinct subtypes. Dr. Feifer will discuss matching each reading subtype with specifi c evidence-based interventions. He will show how using neuropsychological assessment addressing multiple cognitive constructs including phonological processing, working memory, executive functioning and orthography can be used as the primary means to pinpoint specifi c reading disorders in children. Th is will be followed by a detailed discussion linking each learning disorder’s subtype with evidence-based interventions. Dr. Feifer will present new research developments revealing that brain chemistry and neural pathways can actually be altered based upon eff ective interventions and four universal truths about reading research. Lastly, the 90-minute dyslexia evaluation will provide practitioners with a multi-method approach to both assessment and intervention.

INSPIRING CREATIVE STUDENTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: How the Brain Creates the Extraordinary from the Ordinary

April 14, 2015 • Austin, TXApril 15, 2015 • Garland, TX

Creative and innovative problem solving skills are in high demand in the 21st century workplace. Have you wondered how creative minds work and how to improve creative abilities? Does the nature of the school environment shape or stifl e creative brain development? Dr. Gamino will present the latest neuroscience fi ndings in creativity and discuss how the brain takes the ordinary and creates the extraordinary. She will review various cognitive theories of creativity in the realm of the importance of inspiring an enriched learning environment. Moreover, Dr. Gamino will provide cognitive strategies to stimulate your students’ natural creative abilities. She will show how to help students connect the dots between creativity and high-order thinking skills. Participants will take away inspiration for providing creative learning environments in the classroom.

THE SCIENCE OF SMART THINKING:Using Principles of Effective Problem Solving to Transform the Classroom

April 14, 2015 • Austin, TXApril 15, 2015 • Garland, TX

Th inking skills are essential for school success in today’s high-stakes testing environment. In this workshop, you will explore the importance of smart thinking skills in a context of high-stakes testing. You will learn the core formula for Smart Th inking in depth and examine the implications of this work for teaching and testing. Research suggests that smart thinking requires that students develop smart habits to maximize the quality of learning and knowledge acquisition and to be able to apply that knowledge when it is needed in the classroom. Dr. Markman will tease apart the three elements of this formula and explore the research that supports them. He will then present exercises that aim to maximize smart thinking and student learning outcomes. Th ese tools for smart thinking aim to go beyond improving short-term performance in the classroom to help students become lifelong learners.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At this seminar, you will learn information about:

• Current neuroscience fi ndings of how creativity activates the brain

• Cognitive theories of problem solving that lead to creative solutions

• Developing insights into the pathways of creative problem solving

• Strategies to inspire creativity in your students

• How to use creativity to improve learning and understanding in the classroom

• Why the creative process spurs learning and retention of information

• Ways to help foster self-effi cacy in student learning

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar will be applicable for elementary and middle school educators including teachers, school

psychologists and administrators.

WORKSHOP LEADER

Jacquelyn Gamino, PhD, is the director of the BrainHealth Adolescent Reasoning

Initiative at UT Dallas. Dr. Gamino is an expert in advanced reasoning and has served as

a member of educational reform think tanks for both the George W. Bush Middle School

Matters Initiative and the Laura and John Arnold Comprehensive Education Reform

Initiative. Her primary focus is in strategic thinking, critical reasoning and creative problem solving. She is an

invited national speaker and has published evidenced based practices regarding maximizing adolescent brain

potential. She has dedicated her career to improving student achievement.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At this seminar, you will learn information about:

• Using cognitive science research to understand the core habits of smart thinking

• Identifying thinking skills that help students maximize the quality of their learning, memory

and knowledge

• Developing lessons that encourage students to treat knowledge acquisition as an active process

• Infusing lessons with skills of critical and creative problem solving while maintaining high standards

on student evaluations

• Enhancing knowledge of core principles of cognitive psychology that will enable teachers to continue

to improve their knowledge about how students learn and think

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar is applicable for all professionals in education from K-12 with particular relevance to teachers

and administrators in middle school and high school.

WORKSHOP LEADER

Art Markman, PhD, is the Annabel Irion Worsham Centennial Professor of

Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Founding Director

of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations. He has written over 150

scholarly works on topics including reasoning, decision making, communication and

motivation and is the author of several books including Smart Thinking (2012), Habits of Leadership (2013)

and Smart Change (2014). He is also executive editor of the journal Cognitive Science. Dr. Markman brings

insights from cognitive science to broader audiences through his blogs at Psychology Today, Fast Company and

YouBeauty and his NPR radio show Two Guys on Your Head.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At this seminar, you will learn information about:

• The four universal truths of reading research and explain why relying solely upon IQ scores,

or a curriculum-based measurement, can be misleading when identifying reading disorders in children

• A brain-behavior model of reading by examining specifi c neural circuits which underscore phonological

development, orthographic development and comprehension skills

• Four subtypes of reading disabilities from a brain-behavioral perspective, and link scores of evidence-based

interventions to address each subtype

• The Feifer Assessment of Reading (FAR) battery as a more viable means to both assess and remediate

reading disabilities in children from a cognitive science-based educational perspective

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This seminar will be applicable for special education teachers, elementary education teachers, school

psychologists, reading specialists, private psychologists, administrators and parents.

WORKSHOP LEADER

Steven G. Feifer, DEd, NCSP, ABSNP, is an internationally renowned

speaker and author in the fi eld of learning disabilities who has authored six books on

learning and emotional disorders in children. He has 19 years of experience as a school

psychologist, was voted the Maryland School Psychologist of the Year in 2008 and the

2009 National School Psychologist of the Year. He is also a diplomate in school neuropsychology and a faculty

instructor in the ABSNP school neuropsychology training program. Dr. Feifer currently works in private practice

at the Monocacy Neurodevelopmental Center in Frederick, MD. He has authored two tests on diagnosing

learning disabilities in children, both of which are to be released in 2015.

REGISTER ME FOR A LEARNING & the BRAIN® ONE-DAY SEMINAR

Phone: (781) 449-4010 ext.101 or 102

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The Neuropsychology of Reading Disorders

❍ 4/14 in Austin, TX ❍ 4/15 in Garland, TX

Inspiring Creative Students for the 21st Century

❍ 4/14 in Austin, TX ❍ 4/15 in Garland, TX

The Science of Smart Thinking

❍ 4/14 in Austin, TX ❍ 4/15 in Garland, TX

Please indicate the type of professional development credit you need to receive:

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PIRI, 35 Highland Circle, 1st fl oor, Needham, MA 02494-3099. P.O.s will be invoiced if sent without a check and must be paid prior to conference. Registrations without payment or purchase order will not be confi rmed. All prices are in U.S. dollars.

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REGISTRATION POLICIES

Registrations are taken and confi rmed on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis according to receipt of full payment or purchase order. Unpaid registrations without a purchase order will be canceled after 30 days. If you do not receive a confi rmation within two weeks after sending full payment or purchase order, call (781) 449-4010 ext. 101 or 102. Early registration ends March 6, 2015 and is $199 for individuals. General registration is $229 for individuals after

March 6, 2015 to the day before the seminar. There is an additional $25 administrative fee for registration at the door. Groups of fi ve or more who register together

receive a $25 discount per person.

SUBSTITUTIONS AND CANCELLATIONSSubstitutions are permissible up to seven days before the seminar, but you must notify PIRI in writing by fax or mail. Cancellations must be requested no later than

two weeks before the seminar. No cancellations can be made after two weeks before the seminar. Because cancellations incur substantial administrative costs, we

regret that it is necessary to charge a cancellation fee of $50 per person. Cancellations must be sent in writing to PIRI at: 35 Highland Circle, First Floor, Needham, MA

02494-3099 or faxed to PIRI at (781) 449-4024.

SEMINAR PROGRAM CHANGESPublic Information Resources, Inc. (PIRI) reserves the right, without having to refund any monies to participants, to make changes in the seminar, location, and/or

faculty should PIRI, in its sole discretion, deem any such changes necessary or advisable. Similarly, PIRI further reserves the right to cancel any seminars entirely, in

which case PIRI’s liability to participants shall be strictly limited to a refund of those fees. PIRI, the Cooperating Organizations and Sponsors are not responsible for

(nor do they necessarily endorse) the effi cacy, accuracy, or content of any recommendations, statements, research, or other information provided at the seminar.

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