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Welcome & Goals for the Summit

John Malloy, Senior Vice President, AASA
Andrew Wise, Superintendent, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)
Philip Zelazo, Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor, University of Minnesota
Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, Author of Mind in the Making and The Breakthrough Years

Challenges to Learning and Thriving

John Malloy, Senior Vice President, AASA

This interactive session will open with brief roundtable introductions before participants begin using their Reflection Journals鈥攁n ongoing tool created for the Summit.

This is a WORKING SUMMIT where participants identify the greatest challenges they face in their jobs as educators, then select one or two challenges to work on resolving, using the knowledge they gain from listening to leading neuroscientists鈥� and developmental researchers鈥� Talks and in reflecting with and learning from each other.

Participants will respond to a Reflection Tool that shows three different societal challenges, and will write down how they would handle these.

How Do Kids See The Challenges They Face

Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, Author of Mind in the Making and The Breakthrough Years

Are we preparing our students for the future, are we preparing them to create the future, or both?

Participants will view a video of high school students in Washington, DC鈥�"Student Voices on Learning and Life鈥濃�攚here students speak out on the challenges they face growing up today, what motivates them in school, what adults get right and wrong about kids and learning, and whether they feel prepared for the future. Their views will be enhanced with findings from a 2025 nationally representative study of students answering the same/similar questions, the Youth Voices on Arts and Thriving Study, conducted by Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab and Families and Work Institute.

Afterwards, participants will be asked to think about how the kids they know might answer these questions and how this knowledge affects the challenges they鈥檙e addressing during the Summit, noting this in their Journals.

Unleashing Student Engagement

Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and Co-Author of The Disengaged Teen

Do you know how to prepare yourself, or your students, for optimal learning?

Unlock the science behind optimal learning in this session that reveals the powerful connection between student engagement and the brain's natural capacity for growth and discovery. Through evidence-based strategies and transformative insights, you'll discover how to create learning environments that don't just capture attention鈥攂ut ignite curiosity, fuel motivation, and empower every student to reach their fullest potential.

In this and all future sessions, participants will use their Journals to write down several take-aways from each session that can help them address the challenges they鈥檝e set for themselves at the Summit.

Creating the Future 鈥� Brain Basics and Promoting Executive Function

Damien Fair, Professor in the Institute of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota; Redleaf Endowed Director, Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain
Philip Zelazo, Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor, University of Minnesota

Do you know how to activate children's brains for learning or the best times to do so?

Discover how the brain develops and what sensitive periods of brain development are. Then learn about executive function skills, what they are and why they matter. These Talks will help you unlock children鈥檚 executive function potential.

Demand for Executive Function Skills and Real Skills for Real Life

Kristine Gilmore, Chief Leadership & Learning Officer, AASA
Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Senior Vice President, Innovation and Impact, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Adele Diamond, Canada Research Tier I Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, University of British Columbia

Do you know the skills businesses and society need today and tomorrow?

Through powerful insights from Portrait of a Graduate initiatives and industry partnerships, participants will learn what employers are seeking in new hires. Then, we鈥檒l hear about the widespread demand for skills and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching鈥檚 work to transform the American high school, followed by the research on the impact of executive function skills on student achievement and well-being, including the conditions that enable these skills to develop best. 

Adult Brains: How Our Brains Impact the Brains of Our Youth

Andrew Wise, Superintendent, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)

What do you believe about each child's ability to learn? Do you think they know your beliefs?

Explore the profound connection between our deeply held beliefs about children's potential and the invisible signals we send every day, illuminating how our beliefs about young people affect their success. 

Executive Function in Children's and Adult's Brains: Working Memory, Cognitive Flexibility, Reflection, and Inhibitory Control鈥�

How will the strengthening of children's executive function skills address the challenges you see in their learning and thriving?

Each presenter in these three dynamic Talks will define core components of executive functions鈥攚orking memory, cognitive flexibility, reflection and inhibitory control, sharing how these skills can help kids become self-directed learners who are ready to embrace tomorrow's opportunities with confidence and purpose. 

Learning and Thriving in Context of Relationships and Community

Welcome & Day Overview

John Malloy, Senior Vice President, AASA
Andrew Wise, Superintendent, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)

The Need for Real Skills in Today鈥檚 and Tomorrow鈥檚 World

From Research to Practice 鈥� Using Skill-Building Glasses

Meaning Making - How Children Make Sense of What They Learn & Experience

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Professor, University of Southern California and Founding Director, USC CANDLE

This session explores the critical role of meaning making in learning鈥攈ow what we see shapes what we do鈥攁nd how the brain processes and integrates experiences. You will also learn how the brain toggles among networks and develops the capacity for transcendent thinking; how emotional engagement drives complex thinking; and how emotion organizes brain activity when thinking abstractly and deeply. 

Motivation and Goal Setting鈥�

Gabriele Oettingen, Professor of Psychology, New York University and Author Rethinking Positive Thinking

In this session, you will learn about effective goal-setting in children, adolescents, and adults and why positive thinking alone is not enough to achieve goals. The Talk will also explore how educators can create environments that empower children to set and pursue meaningful goals for themselves.

Perspective Taking - Building Understanding

Velma McBride Murry, University Distinguished Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University

This session will share the results of interventions with adolescents and their families, showing how perspective taking and other skills can enhance young peoples鈥� performance in school, foster healthy relationships, improve physical health and promote positive brain development.  

Goal Setting and Perspective Taking in Practice

Communicating - Successful Inner Voice Leads to Successful Outer Voice

Collaborating

David Yeager, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin and Author, 10 to 25 

Being a teacher sparked this presenter鈥檚 interest in how students handle conflict and led to the development of the 鈥渕entor mindset.鈥� In this Talk, you will hear about the differences between enforcer, protector and mentor mindsets in adults and will learn strategies for reducing conflict and fostering collaboration to strengthen relationships and learning environments.

Communicating and Collaborating in Practice

Roundtable Discussion

Participants will reflect on how what they鈥檝e learned about communicating and collaborating can help them develop strategies to address the challenges they鈥檝e set for themselves at this Working Summit. Participants will discuss their reflections with their tablemates to gain further insight on actions they can take to address their own challenges. 

In addition, participants will add to the lists of look-fors and principles for how to infuse skill-building into teaching and learning in working with children. 

This is also a time to reach out to speakers to talk with them or ask questions.

Creative Thinking

Indre Viskontas, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of San Francisco, President of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity

This speaker will draw from her experiences as an opera singer, director, and neuroscientist to explore the importance of creative thinking for learning, thriving, and problem-solving. She will share strategies rooted in brain science to help adults and kids become more effective creative thinkers. In addition, she will share how an AI-based creativity assessment improves college admissions, by predicting success while reducing disparities.

Critical Thinking

Group Activities & Discussions

Moderators: Andrew Wise and Phil Zelazo

Participants will engage in table activities鈥攊ncluding the Cognitive Reflection Test and other assessments鈥攖o examine their own critical thinking. Building on these experiences, attendees will collaborate in roundtable discussions to generate strategies for strengthening critical thinking in themselves and in children.

Taking On Challenges - Stress Optimization: Leveraging Appraisals & Mindsets

Jeremy Jamieson, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester

This speaker will explore how the brain and body respond to stress and challenges and share his research on adopting a synergistic mindset that encourages embracing鈥攏ot avoiding鈥攄ifficulties/challenges and 鈥渓eaning into鈥� stress to fuel goal pursuit.

Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Taking on Challenge in Practice鈥�

Roundtable Discussion

Participants will reflect on how what they鈥檝e learned about creative and critical thinking and taking on challenges can help them develop strategies to address the challenges they鈥檝e set for themselves at this working summit. Participants will discuss their reflections with their tablemates to gain further insight into actions they can take to address their own challengers.

In addition, participants will add to the lists of look-fors and principles for how to infuse skill-building into teaching and learning in working with children.

Welcome, Reflection and Preparation

John Malloy, Senior Vice President, AASA
Andrew Wise, Superintendent, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)

Resetting Development After Trauma

Velma McBride Murry, University Distinguished Professor of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University

In this Talk, you will hear research on how adaptive processes and competencies help youth grow, thrive, and flourish and how family-centered preventive interventions support parenting skills that prepare children to navigate growing up in our society with real life skills.

The Science of Human Possibility

Pamela Cantor, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Human Potential L.A.B.

In this Talk, you will hear how learning and thriving are interconnected as well as strategies to spark learning after adverse experiences that promote overall well-being in children and adults.

Executive Function and Real Life Skills in Action

Possibilities Mindset Process, Goal Setting, Personal, & Organizational Change

Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, author of Mind in the Making and The Breakthrough Years
Philip Zelazo, Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor, University of Minnesota

These presenters will lead an interactive session introducing a process participants can use to continue addressing their personal and organizational challenges after the Summit. Attendees will leave with a practical tool for driving meaningful change.

Skill Building in Your District

Group Activities & Discussions

Participants will work at their roundtables to develop plans for infusing skill-building across their districts and programs. Through multiple rounds of pair-sharing and refinement, participants will collaborate to strengthen and expand their strategies for meaningful implementation.

School District Panel - Who Can Help You Promote Executive Function and Real Skills鈥疭ystemically in Your District

Brian Liedtke, Board President & Parent, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)
Carrie Fitzgerald, Principal, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)
Ashley Sanchez, Student Coordinator, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)
Kari Gemmell, STEM Coach, Center Cass School District 66 (Ill.)

School district leaders will share how to take the learning from the Summit and implement role鈥痵pecific actions to further grow real skills for real life in schools. 

Successful Situations

Angela Duckworth, Co-Founder, Character Lab, Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor University of Pennsylvania, Author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

This presenter will explore how changing our environment can drive personal and organizational change, sharing insights from studies on school phone policies and findings from her forthcoming book. Participants will gain strategies for creating conditions that support meaningful change.

Reflective Conversations

Roundtable Discussion 

Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, author of Mind in the Making and The Breakthrough Years

There will be two rounds of roundtable conversations

1. Participants will talk at their tables for five minutes about how they鈥攁s adults鈥攈ave used real skills in their own lives to overcome challenges鈥攕ince change all begins with us as adults. They will select one of the participants at their table to share stories with the larger group.
   
2. Participants will next reflect on how the Summit has impacted their thinking about practice with the others at their roundtable for five minutes and what they鈥檙e going to do differently when they go back to their communities. They will then select one of the participants to share a few actions individuals are committed to when they get home and how they are going to hold each other accountable.

Before leaving, attendees will complete the Reflection Tool they used at the start of the Summit, allowing them to capture changes in their perspectives and approaches.

Looking Ahead