Education Speaker Series: Teens and Screens – Parenting in the Age of Tech

Ellen Driscoll Theater, Havens Elementary School

Jean Twenge, Ph.D. is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the author of iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy—and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood. Dr. Twenge has been interviewed on NPR, featured in The Atlantic, and quoted in the New York Times article, Why Are More American […]

Education Speaker Series: About Homework

Ellen Driscoll Theater, Havens Elementary School

Denise Pope, Ph.D. is a co-founder of Challenge Success, a Stanford-based initiative that seeks to promote a balanced and academically fulfilling life for kids. She is the author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students and a three-time recipient of the Stanford University Graduate School of […]

$15

Appreciating Diversity Film Series: I Am Not Your Negro

Ellen Driscoll Theater, Havens Elementary School

I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words as read by actor Samuel L. Jackson. Alongside a flood of rich archival material, the film draws upon Baldwin’s notes on the lives and assassinations of his close friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm […]

Free

Talking with Kids about Healthy Relationships, Sex, and Porn

Ellen Driscoll Theater, Havens Elementary School

Teens and pre-teens are exposed to unhealthy attitudes and behaviors about sex and relationships through the internet, pop culture, and online pornography. Narda Skov, MPH, an adolescent sexuality educator and reproductive health specialist with over 25 years experience working with young people, will share information about the current landscape and how parents can start meaningful conversations […]

Diversity Film series showing “100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice”

Ellen Driscoll Theater, Havens Elementary School

Blackfeet warrior and tribal Treasurer Elouise Cobell started asking questions about missing money from government-managed Indian trust accounts, and ended up filing the largest class action lawsuit ever filed against the US Government. 6:30 pm | free reception open to the public 7:00 - 8:15 | film showing 8:15 - 9:00 | community discussion about […]

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