Harvard Graduate School of Education

This week, I had two conversations that actually fit together better than I expected.

On Tuesday, in episode 838, I was joined by Dr. Alexis Redding, a developmental psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

And on episode 839 yesterday, John Acuff, author of 11 books, including his newest, Procrastination Proof.

One studies what young people have always carried into adulthood.

So the experimental projects that we have one that I'd like to, that I can talk more about later that we did with Ying Xu and Mark Warschauer.

Ying is now at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, but she was at UC Irvine when we started working and Mark is at UC Irvine.

And this is using AI to understand children when they speak.

but not using generative AI to respond to them.

um her writing can be found on the boston globe wbur's cognoscenti embark literary journal and many other publications for years kimberly was an on-air host and producer for a mighty blaze where she hosted over 150 episodes of the beloved show authors love bookstores each week she interviewed independent independent booksellers and authors and ultimately interviewed a bookstore owner in each and every 50 states and all of the 50 states excuse me um plus canada uk and puerto rico I mean, as far as people out there in the media supporting indie bookstores, it's hard to find somebody who's done more than Kimberly.

She's a graduate of Boston University and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and she lives right here in Massachusetts with her family and their very shy rescue dog.

Her debut novel, as I said, is What Remains of You.

It's an exploration of what happens when the recently widowed Diana finds a cryptic letter from her late husband explaining that he might not quite have been the man that she thought he was.

You were chosen to be part of this community.

It's been amazing to see at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where I teach, we welcome a group of online students to our campus every year for one week before they start this two-year online program.

And our dean said to them in their ceremony when they came, those exact words, You belong here, you were chosen.

And then I watched my LinkedIn feed just be flooded with people say how much that one sentence or those two sentences mattered to them.

instead, we're finding us in the midst of a world that doesn't look like it should.

While we're trying to pursue these goals, if you raise optimism, social connection, meaning, or purpose, Every single business and educational outcome we know how to test for at Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Education rises dramatically.

We live seven and a half years longer.

Our symptoms are less acute.

Wiley, I'm going to give a brief bio.

Wiley studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Bowling Green State University and has his doctorate in education.

He's widely recognized for his contributions to phonics and early literacy and has authored numerous professional books and instructional resources used in classrooms nationwide.

Through his consulting and research, Dr. Blevins supports educators in implementing evidence-based practices that accelerate reading growth for all learners.

But as they enter adulthood, children often wish their parents had talked to them more about sex and dating, even if their younger selves ran from the topic, kicking and screaming.

In a Harvard Graduate School of Education study that surveyed 2,200 men and women aged 18 to 25, 70% said they wished they had received more information from their parents about the emotional aspects of romantic relationships.

According to Gallup, however, parents are 3.5 times more likely to talk to their kids about school than dating.

These talks are hard, but as I often say, the right thing and the hard thing are usually the same thing.

And so he's been helping me validate our learning algorithm, which you'll see some of his work in a little bit.

Last, we have Rohin Dev, and he's at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He has five years of experience working with Fortune 500 CEOs, university presidents, and managing relations between them.

He works with our clients in managing relations with the colleges that we partner with.