Center For Talent Development At Northwestern University

Aaron Cooper, Ph.D., discusses self esteem in children and how it has changed throughout generations.

Aaron Cooper, Ph.D., discusses the importance of self reflection in regards to the relationship that parents have with their children.

CTD Director Paula Olszewski-Kubilius discusses the importance of supporting your child through various accomplishments and obstacles and how parents play a critical role in their child's development.

Northwestern PhD student, Sadie Witkowski, explains the idea behind her graduate student focused podcast, PhDrinking. She discusses the role of graduate students in society today, and how important it is to recognize the discoveries they're making. Read more at ctd.northwester.edu/newsletters.

Dr. Elizabeth Norton, Northwestern University professor and director of Northwestern's LEARN Lab, discusses what we can be doing to help foster the success of our children. In the realm of gifted and talented, she discusses some research which has been done on children who are mathematically advanced. Read more at ctd.northwestern.edu/newsletters.

Dr. Elizabeth Norton, Northwestern University professor and director of Northwestern's LEARN Lab, discusses how brain imaging will hopefully be used in the future to identify individual students' learning abilities. Read more at ctd.northwestern.edu/newsletters.

Northwestern University Ph.D. student, Sadie Witkowski, discusses the many career paths for students interested in neuroscience and psychology. Read more at ctd.northwestern.edu/newsletters.

Sadie Witkowski on the Growing Role of the Arts in Science by Center for Talent Development at Northwestern

Molly Gosline, SEL coordinator at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL, on creating structures to support social skills & emotional intelligence, on a daily basis, within schools.

Molly Gosline, SEL coordinator at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL, discusses the student perspective on social-emotional learning (SEL) and what the data collected implies.

Molly Gosline, SEL coordinator at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL, discusses incorporating social-emotional learning (SEL) as a culture, as opposed to a program, within schools.

CTD Summer Program Coordinator, Danielle Holtz's, message to parents on the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) skills beyond school.

CTD Summer Program Coordinator, Danielle Holtz, describes a CTD robotics course and how it relates to social-emotional learning (SEL).

CTD Summer Program Coordinator, Danielle Holtz, discusses the skills learned in schools supporting social-emotional learning.

CTD's Danielle Holtz on meeting the needs of students from a social-emotional learning (SEL) perspective, with a focus on the CASEL competencies.

Center for Talent Development Associate Director, Eric Calvert, defines the newest piece of legislation he has helped to pass, the Accelerated Placement Act.

Center for Talent Development Associate Director, Eric Calvert, discusses acceleration as an education policy, and touches on the transition from the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) to the current Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Center for Talent Development Associate Director, Eric Calvert, encourages listeners to not miss this moment to impact policies affecting gifted education and acceleration, as well as special populations in general.

Center for Talent Development director, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, provides advice to school administrators for adopting policies around academic acceleration.

Center for Talent Development director, Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, discusses the importance of acceleration when seeking the optimal match between the pace and level of instruction, and what children know and are capable of doing.