2025 Speakers
Gregory M. Walton
January 30, 2025
Gregory M. Walton is the Michael Forman University Fellow and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the psychological processes that contribute to social problems, and how “wise interventions” that target these processes can mitigate these problems and help people flourish. He is the author of Ordinary Magic: The Science of How We Can Achieve Big Change with Small Acts, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant describes as “an eye-opening look at how we have more power to improve our lives than we realize.”
Greg has received awards from numerous associations, including the American Psychological Association (APA). His research has been supported by the Institute for Education Sciences, the National Institute of Health, and many more. It has also been covered across the press, including in The New York Times, NPR, The Los Angeles Times and others.
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
February 6, 2025
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., is the Fahmy and Donna Attallah Professor of Humanistic Psychology and a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. She is the founding director of the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education, or CANDLE. Immordino-Yang has pioneered novel approaches to the study of social-emotional and brain development with implications for educational practice and policy.
Pamela Cantor
February 13, 2025
Pamela Cantor, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a trusted voice on the science of learning and human development. She is the Founder and CEO of The Human Potential L.A.B., whose mission is to leverage the latest scientific knowledge and technologies to transform what people understand and what institutions do to unlock human potential in each and every individual.
Dr. Cantor is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University, and an author of Whole-Child Development, Learning and Thriving: A Dynamic Systems Approach (Cambridge University Press) and The Science of Learning and Development (Routledge). She founded and led the nonprofit organization Turnaround for Children (now the Center for Whole-Child Education at Arizona State University), serving as President and CEO from 2002 to 2018.
CTTL Facilitators
Lorraine Martinez Hanley
Lorraine Martinez Hanley has been a diversity practitioner, an activist, and an educator for over 30 years. She is the Director of Professional Growth and Studies at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland and the Lead Researcher for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging at the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL). Lorraine is a founding principal consultant for The Glasgow Group, where she integrates the strategies and principles of Mind, Brain, and Education and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging. She is a think tank member of the Turnaround Arts-Kennedy Center on the integration of belonging in arts programming. Lorraine is a certified All Kinds of Minds (AKOM) trainer and a 16-year veteran faculty member of the National Association of Independent School’s Student Diversity Leadership Conference. Born in Los Angeles, California, she attended the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland University College and has a B.A. in Humanities.
Ian Kelleher
Dr. Ian Kelleher is the Dreyfuss Family Chair of Research at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and co-author of Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education. He grew up in the UK, got a Ph.D. at Cambridge, then moved to the U.S., where he has spent the last twenty-nine years teaching Chemistry, Physics and Robotics and coaching soccer. Ian’s work for the CTTL focuses on helping teachers translate Mind, Brain, and Education research into classroom practices, and measuring the impact. Ian has presented at Learning & the Brain, SXSWedu, the UK’s Festival of Education, ResearchED, and the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference, and written for publications including ASCD, Edutopia, EdSurge, Impact, and Mind, Brain and Education. Ian likes to read, write, and run. Talk to him about English Premier League soccer, F1 and rugby.
Glenn Whitman
Glenn is a History teacher at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School (MD) where he is also the Dreyfuss Family Director for the Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning (CTTL). Glenn is the co-author of Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education and co-designer of Neuroteach Global®. Glenn is a former Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence Fellow and author of Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students and Meeting Standards through Oral History as well as co-editor of Think Differently and Deeply, the international publication of the CTTL. Glenn earned his MALS from Dartmouth College and a BA from Dickinson College.
Previous Speakers
2024 Speakers
Afrika Afeni Mills
CEO of Continental Drift, LLC and Adjunct Professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development
Sara Staley
Assistant Professor of Teacher Learning, Research, and Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and Co-Director of A Queer Endeavor
Bethy Leonardi
Associate Professor in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder
Kade Friedman
Director of Education at PINE, the Program for Inclusion and Neurodiversity Education and Adjunct Professor at New York University
2023 Speakers
Tanji Reed Marshall, Ph.D
Vanessa Rodriguez, EdD
2022 Speakers
Elena Aguilar
Founder and President, Bright Morning
Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Director, USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE)
