Nationally Recognized K-12 Scholastic Innovation Expert Grant Lichtman To Inspire the Academic Community on November 13 at The Shipley School

The Shipley School invites the community to join Grant Lichtman, a nationally-recognized K-12 school innovation expert, on Thursday, November 13, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., for an enlightening discussion on transforming K-12 education. Lichtman’s session will teach attendees to embrace foundational change in a rapidly changing world and imagine futures that look very different than the past.

Lichtman, a senior fellow at the Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence, will share what he learned from three months on the road visiting 21 states, 64 schools, and more than 500 exemplary educators. Lichtman is the author of #EdJourney: A Roadmap to the Future of Education and The Falconer: What We Wished We Had Learned in School, as well as his blog “Learning Pond.” He frequently travels around the United States to work with schools and help them develop their strategic vision for the future. A regular commentator, Lichtman spoke at the 2013 TEDx Denver Teachers Conference about his journey to disrupt the industrial-age model and mindset that has defined American education for last century.

Lichtman’s views on education and learning support Shipley’s emphasis on emotional literacy programs, differentiated instruction and deeper learning. In 2011, Shipley partnered with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to develop an emotional literacy program that focuses on instructing students to understand their emotions and manage them effectively. The school offers an integrated and thorough “core values” curriculum devoted to Social, Emotional and Ethical Development (SEED).

Lichtman’s evening presentation at Shipley will be dedicated to uncovering solutions to work toward a more effective and advanced and deeper learning environment in our institutions.

This free event is open to the public and anyone can register online at https://www.shipleyschool.org/lichtman. Walk-ins are welcome. The session will take place at Shipley’s Upper School Main Building, located at 814 Yarrow Street, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010.

About Shipley

The Shipley School is a pre-K through 12 independent, coeducational day school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, committed to educational excellence and dedicated to developing in each student a love of learning and a compassionate participation in the world. Through a strong college preparatory curriculum in the humanities and the sciences, the School encourages curiosity, creativity, and respect for intellectual effort. Shipley upholds and promotes moral integrity, a sense of personal achievement and worth, and concern for others at school and in the larger community. For 120 years, The Shipley School has been teaching with the individual in mind, inspiring confidence, creativity, and deeply rooted learning. For more information visit www.shipleyschool.org, like The Shipley School on www.facebook