School of Education and Human Development Recorded Talks
The School of Education and Human Development has a number of talks that occur throughout the year, many of which are recorded and available online. See the School of Education and Human Development Youtube Channel for videos of previous talks, some of which are highlighted below.
All talks are free and open to the public.
Education Research Lectureship Series
These lectures are sponsored by the Virginia Education Sciences Training (VEST) Program, supported by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and the School of Education and Human Development Dean’s Office. The lectures occur on select Fridays throughout the fall and spring semesters.
2019
Fall Semester
- Dr. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley from VCU completed a talk entitled "This Generation’s Integration: Leadership, Policy and Practice for Diverse, Equitable Schools" on Friday November 15th, 2019.
- Dr. Veronica Katz from the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled "The Effect of Performance-Based Financial Incentives on Teacher Employment Decisions" on Friday, December 6th, 2019.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Tim Curby from George Mason University completed a talk entitled "Observing the Teaching of Emotions in the Classroom" on Friday February 8th, 2019.
- Dr. Bethany Rittle-Johnson from Vanderbilt University completed a talk entitled "Early Math Trajectories: Low-Income Children’s Mathematics Knowledge from Age 4 to 12" on Friday February 22nd, 2019.
- Dr. Liz Bettini from Boston University completed a talk entitled "Special Education Teachers' Working Conditions: A Potential Lever for Improving the Quality and Effectiveness of the Special Education Teacher Workforce" on Friday March 29th, 2019.
2018
Fall Semester
- Dr. Lisa Gennetian from NYU completed a talk entitled "Behavioral Economics: Toward an Interdisciplinary Framework for Understanding Parent Behavior and Optimizing Early Childhood Interventions" on Friday September 28th, 2018.
- Dr. Ron Haskins from the Brookings Institution completed a talk entitled "But Does It Work?: Building a System to Test the Nation’s Social Intervention Programs" on Friday October 26th, 2018.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Carola Suárez-Orozco from UCLA completed a talk entitled "A Developmental Perspective on Undocumented and Mixed-Family Status Children and Youth" on Friday, January 26th, 2018.
- Dr. Amanda Lewis from the University of Illinois at Chicago completed a talk entitled "Educational Marketplace, Race, & Opportunity Hoarding" on Friday February 23rd, 2018
- Dr. Judith Singer from Harvard University completed a talk entitled "Lessons Learned in Fostering Faculty Development and Diversity" on Friday March 23rd, 2018
2017
Fall Semester
- Dr. Stephen Russell from the University of Texas at Austin completed a talk entitled “LGBTQ Youth Health & Resilience” on Friday September 22nd, 2017.
- Dr. Rucker Johnson from the University of California at Berkley completed a talk entitled “Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending” on Friday November 17th, 2017.
- Dr. Vivian Wong from the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled “Do More Stringent Accountability Policies Improve Student Achievement? New Evidence on How States and Students Responded to Accountability Pressures under NCLB” on Friday December 1st, 2017.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Cynthia Coburn from Northwestern University completed a talk entitled “Pathways from Research to Policy: Implications for Researchers” on Friday, April 14th, 2017.
- Dr. Noelle Hurd from the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled “Natural Mentoring Relationships: Why They Matter and What We Can Do To Encourage Their Formation” on Friday March 3rd, 2017.
2016
Fall Semester
- Dr. Roger Weissberg from the University of Illinois at Chicago completed a talk entitled 'Enhancing the Social, Emotional, & Academic Learning of U.S. Students' on Friday December 5th, 2016.
- Dr. Mark Lipsey from Vanderbilt University completed a talk entitled 'Are the Expectations for State-Funded Pre-K Realistic? The Tennessee Pre-K Study and Reflections about its Implications' on Friday November 11th, 2016.
- Dr. Jenny Roe from UVA completed a talk entitled 'Natural Solutions To Tackling Behavior and Performance in Urban School' on Friday September 2nd, 2016.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Elise Cappella from NYU completed a talk entitled “Natural Opportunities for Academic Learning and Mental Health in Urban Schools: Evidence from Intervention Trials” on Friday February 26th, 2016.
2015
Fall Semester
- Dr. Peter Youngs from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled 'The Role of Social Context In Beginning Teacher Development' on Friday November 6th, 2015.
- Dr. Doug Harris from Tulane University completed a talk entitled 'Taken by Storm: The Effects of the New Orleans School Reforms on Student Outcomes and School Practices' on Friday October 16th, 2015.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Sandra Graham from UCLA completed a talk entitled “Race, Ethnicity and Social Adjustment of Adolescents: How (not if) School Diversity Matters” on Friday April 24th, 2015.
- Dr. Adam Gamoran from the William T. Grant Foundation completed a talk entitled “New Challenges for Research on Youth Inequality” on Friday April 10th, 2015.
- Dr. Kevin Miller from the University of Michigan completed a talk entitled “New Perspectives on Classroom Processes” on Friday March 27th, 2015 for the CRC Keynote.
- Dr. Maureen Weiss from the University of Minnesota completed a talk entitled 'Youth Development in Physical Activity Contexts: Promoting Social, Psychological, and Physical Assets' on Friday February 27th, 2015.
- Dr. Amanda Williford from the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled 'Examining the Impacts of Banking Time to Improve Outcomes for Preschool Children Displaying Disruptive Behaviors' on Friday February 13th, 2015.
- Dr. Candice L. Odgers from Duke University completed a talk entitled 'Seven Fears And Countless Opportunities For Adolescents In The Digital World' on Friday January 23rd, 2015.
2014
Fall Semester
- Dr. Jeff Henig from Columbia University completed a talk entitled 'The Politics of Educational Research' on Friday December 5th, 2014.
- Dr. Susanna Loeb from Stanford University completed a talk entitled “Information, Choice, and Decision-Making: Field Experiments with Adult and Student School Choosers” on Friday November 14th, 2014.
- Catherine Bradshaw, Ph.D from the University of Virginia completed a talk entitled 'A Partnership-Based Approach to Scaling-up Evidence-based Programs to Prevent Behavior Problems in Schools” on Friday October 10th, 2014.
Spring Semester
- Jim P. Spillane, Ph.D from the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University completed a talk entitled “Policy and Practice: Implementation, Infrastructure, & Instruction” on Friday May 2nd, 2014.
- Laura Justice, Ph.D from the Ohio State University completed a talk entitled “Friends or Foes? Impacts of Classmates on Preschoolers’ Development” on Friday April 11th, 2014
- Dr. Brian Nosek at the University of Virginia presented “Scientific Utopia: An Agenda for Improving Openness and Reproducibility” on Friday March 7th, 2014.
- Dr. Edward Mulvey from the University of Pittsburgh Medical School completed a talk entitled 'Outcomes in Early Adulthood for Serious Adolescent Offenders' on Friday February 28th, 2014.
2013
Fall Semester
- Dr. Bridget Terry Long from Harvard Graduate School of Education completed a talk on entitled “How much of a nudge is necessary? Using Information, Assistance, and Incentives to Increase College Savings and Enrollment” on Friday November 22nd, 2013.
Education Policy Seminar Series
These seminars are sponsored by EdPolicyWorks, a joint collaboration between the School of Education and Human Development and the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy that focuses on important questions of educational policy and implications for the workforce, and funded by the Bankard Foundation. These seminars occur on select Mondays throughout the fall and spring semesters.
2020
Fall Semester
- Dr. Desmond Ang from Harvard completed a talk entitled “The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students” on Monday, October 19th, 2020.
- Dr Fran Murphy from the US Army completed a talk entitled “Work Boots to Combat Boots: Mass Layoffs and Military Enlistment” on Monday, November 9th, 2020.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Jim Soland from UVA completed a talk entitled "Using Survey Scores to Estimate Social-emotional Growth: Implications for Psychology, Education, and Policy" on Monday, January 27th, 2020.
2019
Fall Semester
- Dr. David McMillon from University of Chicago completed a talk entitled "A Theoretical Analysis of Disciplinary Policy and Behavioral Infractions in Schools" on Monday, October 14th, 2019.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Constance Lindsay from the Urban Institute completed a talk entitled "The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers" on Monday March 25th, 2019.
- Dr. David Deming from Harvard University completed a talk entitled "STEM Careers and Technological Change" on Friday April 26th, 2019.
2018
Fall Semester
- Dr. Lauren Sartain from the UChicago Consortium completed a talk entitled “Increasing access to selective high schools through place-based affirmative action: Unintended consequences” on Monday October 28th, 2018.
2017
Fall Semester
- Dr. Eric Taylor from Harvard University completed a talk entitled “Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data” on Monday September 11th, 2017.
- Dr. Carrie Conaway from Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education completed a talk entitled “Partnering on Research to Improve Policy: Teacher Policy Research in Massachusetts” on Monday December 4th, 2017.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Chris Herbst from Arizona State University completed a talk entitled “The Demand for Teacher Characteristics in the Market for Child Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment” on Monday March 27th, 2017.
2016
Fall Semester
- Dr. Sean Reardon from Stanford University completed a talk entitled '200 Million Test Scores and What Do We Know? Studying Educational Opportunity with Big Data' on Friday October 7th, 2016.
- Dr. Mimi Engel from Vanderbilt University completed a talk entitled 'Mathematics Instruction in Kindergarten: Understanding the Evidence' on Tuesday September 20th, 2016.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Jason Grissom from Vanderbilt University completed a talk entitled “Principal Licensure Exams and Future Job Performance: Evidence from the School Leaders Licensure Assessment” on Monday April 25th, 2016.
- Dr. Dylan Conger from George Washington University completed a talk entitled “The Effect of Price Shocks on Undocumented College Students’ Attainment and Completion” on Monday May 9th, 2016.
2015
Fall Semester
- Dr. Tim Sass from Georgia State University completed a talk entitled “Do the Cheated Ever Prosper? The Long-Run Effects of Test-Score Manipulation by Teachers on Student Outcomes” on Monday November 16th, 2015.
2014
Fall Semester
- Greg Darnieder from the United States Department of Education completed a talk entitled “When Does Research Tip the Decision Scale at the US Dept. of ED? – a Practitioner’s Journey” on Monday November 3rd, 2014.
- Dr. C. Kirabo Jackson from Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University completed a talk entitled “Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina” on Monday October 6th, 2014.
- Dr. Cory Koedel from the University of Missouri-Columbia completed a talk entitled “Pension Enhancements and the Retention of Public Employees: Evidence from Teaching” on Monday September 29th, 2014.
Spring Semester
- Dr. Ben Castleman from University of Virginia completed a talk entitled “Prompts, Personalization, and Pay-offs: Using Behavioral Nudges to Help Students Navigate Complex Postsecondary Decisions” on Monday March 24th, 2014.
2013
Fall Semester
- Dr. Dan Goldhaber from University of Washington Bothell completed a talk entitled “Knocking on the Door to the Teaching Profession? Modeling the Entry of Prospective Teachers in the Workforce” on Monday November 11th, 2013.