Conferences and Seminars
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27th Annual Learning Differences Conference - March 2012
The Learning Differences Conference was founded 26 years ago by Dr. Lynn Meltzer is sponsored by ResearchILD and will take place at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This national conference focuses on cutting-edge methods for individualizing the teaching process to address the needs of a wide range of learners. The program emphasizes current research on executive function, motivation, effort, persistence and resilience. Novel approaches are discussed for assessing and teaching students with learning and attention differences across different grade-levels and content areas. More Information |
Annual ResearchILD Fall Conference - Executive Function: Teaching Strategies to Engage All Learners
This one-day conference examines the rationale and specific suggestions for teaching executive function strategies explicitly and systematically in the classroom. Participants will leave with knowledge of critically important executive function strategies, namely Planning, Organizing, Memorizing, Shifting and Self-Checking.
SMARTS Leadership and Mentoring Program
The SMARTS Program is a unique mentoring program designed by the Research Institute for Learning and Development to build a supportive community of students with learning and attention differences. SMARTS is comprised of two distinct programs: Community SMARTS and SMARTS Boston, both of which build students' strategy use, effort and resilience. read more
Drive to Thrive Program
The Drive to Thrive program helps students to develop personalized strategies that enable them to become efficient, independent learners and that foster effort, persistence and resilience. Drive to Thrive provides teacher training, as well as technology and written materials for teachers and parents that help them address the needs of all students, but particularly those students who are at risk because of learning differences or attention problems.
Drive to Thrive Award made possible through The Jack & Thelma Segal Fund
This award recognizes those students with learning or attention differences who show exceptional effort, persistence, goal-orientation, and resilience. This award was established to honor the memory of the late Dr. Jack Segal, an outstanding physician, diagnostician and global thinker who epitomized the drive to thrive with his energy, passion, creativity, humor, persistence and resilience.
Pathways to Success Society
Pathways to Success Society members are dedicated to promoting, supporting and advocating for children, adolescents, and adults with learning and attention differences so they can develop the persistence and resilience needed to attain success in school and in life.
For more information about our ongoing programs please contact us.