Men of Character Speaker Series featuring Dr. Denise Pope & Jon Kleiman
A Parent Education Event:
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
New Location: MS/US Library | Crescent School
Doors Open/Reception: 6:30 p.m.; Presentation: 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
New Location: MS/US Library | Crescent School
Doors Open/Reception: 6:30 p.m.; Presentation: 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Tickets: $35 each
A registration link and more information about our guest panel speakers can be found here.
Over the past decade, Dr. Denise Pope and Jon Kleiman from Challenge Success have surveyed over 270,000 students—including Crescent students—to better understand the student experience. One of the key insights from their research is the irrefutable interconnection between well-being, belonging, and engagement in learning.
In their presentation, they will share their research findings and offer resources and recommendations on what parents can do at home—and educators can do in schools—to improve student outcomes.
Learn More:
Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning. She is co-founder and current strategic advisor at Challenge Success, a school reform nonprofit that partners with schools and families to elevate student voice and implement research-based strategies that improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement with learning.
She is the author of, "Doing School": How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (Yale University Press, 2001), which was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal, 2001, and lead author of Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies For Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids(Jossey-Bass, 2015). She also co-hosts the Stanford University podcast called “School’s In.” Dr. Pope lectures nationally on parenting techniques and pedagogical strategies to increase student health, engagement with learning, and integrity. She is a 3-time recipient of the Stanford
University School of Education Outstanding Teacher and Mentor Award and was honoured with the 2012 Education Professor of the Year "Educators' Voice Award" from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. Prior to teaching at Stanford, Dr. Pope taught high school English in Fremont, CA and college composition and rhetoric courses at Santa Clara University.
Jon Kleiman, M.A., is the School and District Partnership Manager for Challenge Success. Jon’s chief mission is to help organizations and individuals challenge the status quo. In his role as a School & District Partnership Manager with Challenge Success, Jon’s worked with dozens of schools over the past several years in reimagining how schools might better support the needs and growth of their students. Previously, Jon worked at a university helping students to engage in “vocational wayfinding.” Jon lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and three kids.
Challenge Success partners with school communities to elevate student voice and implement research-based, equity-centred strategies that improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement. Challenge Success is affiliated with the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
