LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
William R. Stixrud, Ph.D.
* All lectures are presented by Dr. William R. Stixrud, unless otherwise noted.
WHAT’S HAPPENING?
Adolescent Brain. On January 4, Dr. Stixrud spoke to the faculty of Rockville High School. The title of his talk was Teaching the Adolescent Brain. On January 21, more than 250 parents came to Langley High School in McLean for a morning presentation called Understanding the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain. In both talks, Dr. Stixrud discussed the implications of the progressive development during adolescence of the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which enhances learning ability and enables more mature judgment and decision making. He also emphasized that the adolescent brain is highly sensitive to chemicals, including drugs, alcohol, and stress hormones. Major take home points included the importance of challenging adolescents intellectually, physically, and emotionally while at the same time doing everything possible to ensure that they are well rested and not chronically stressed. Dr. Stixrud also touched on the importance of encouraging adolescents to make decisions and practice running their own life.
Working Memory. On January 26, Dr. Stixrud addressed the faculty of the Odyssey School in Stevenson, MD. The title of his talk was Working Memory as a Core Executive Function. He stressed the importance of teaching paraphrasing and visualizing skills to students with working memory difficulties. He also discussed the exciting results being reported from Cogmed Working Memory Training.
COOL STUFF
Last spring, Dr. Stixrud participated in a press conference with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr prior to a benefit concert for the David Lynch Foundation. Link.
RECENT LECTURES (2007-2009)
- Einstein Played: The Importance of Play for Early Neurological, Cognitive, and Social-Emotional Development
- We’re Not in Kansas Anymore: The Challenge of Teaching Students in the Age of X-Box, Youtube, and Text Messaging
- Teaching for Resiliency: How to Help LD Kids Face the World Courageously
- Transcendental Meditation as a Treatment for ADHD
- Supporting Neurodevelopment Diversity in the Classroom
- Teaching the Adolescent Brain
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Adolescents and Stress
- Functioning at 15% Capacity: The Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in College Students.
- Motivation: Giving Your Child the Tools Needed to Succeed
- Building Resilience: How to Help Kids With Tourette Syndrome Face the World Courageously
- The Neuropsychology of Memory: How the Brain Remembers What It Learns and How to Help Kids Who Can’t Remember
- The Neuropsychology of Learning Disorders
- Understanding the Mysteries of the Adolescent Brain
- Understanding the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain
- Working Memory as A Core Executive Function
- Early Foundations of Self-Regulation
- Ready Or Not We’ll Teach You Anyway: Why Teaching Kids And Teenagers Academic Skills At Younger And Younger Ages Makes No Sense – And What We Can Do About It
- The Neuropsychology of Motivation: What Brain Research Tells Us About Motivating Children and Adolescents
- Failure to Launch: What’s Interfering With Our Kids’ Ability to Develop Into Independent, Motivated, Successful Adults? (And What to Do About It!)
- Executive Functioning: Understanding and Developing the Brain’s Command and Control System
- Promoting Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: The Role of Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management
- Stressed Out of Their Minds: How Stress Undermines Learning, Mental Health and Brain Development — And What Can be Done About It
- Stretching Students Without Straining Them: How to Find the Right Balance
- How School Environments Affect Learning, Emotional Functioning, and Brain Development
- Anger Management: Helping Children and Adolescents Who Get Too Angry Too Often
- The Worried Child: How Teachers and Counselors Can Help Stressed and Anxious Students
- *Dr. Robb Mapou: Research-Informed Assessment of Learning Disabilities in Adults
- *Dr. Adam Sowa: Executive Funtioning and Academics
DR. STIXRUD’S LECTURES BY GENERAL TOPIC
Brain Development, Brain-Based Education
- Brain-Based Education: Applications of Brain Research to Teaching
- Brain Development and Early Education
- Understanding the Mysteries of the Teenage Brain
- Teaching the Adolescent Brain
- Gender Differences in the Brain and the Classroom: Implications for Parents and Professionals
Topics Related to Learning and Schooling
- The Neuropsychology of Memory: How the Brain Learns and How to Help Kids Who Can’t Remember
- Homework: What It's Good For, How to Get it Done, and When to Say When
- Ready Or Not We’ll Teach You Anyway: Why Teaching Kids And Teenagers Academic Skills At Younger And Younger Ages Makes No Sense - And What We Can Do About It
- Understanding and Nurturing the Multiple Intelligences
- Strength-Based Instruction: How an Emphasis on Multiple Intelligences Improves Education and Achievement
- The Electronic Brain: How Technology Affects a Child’s Brain, Personality, and Social Development – And What We Can Do About It
- The Child in Motion: Why Movement is so Critical for Health, Attention, Learning, and Emotional Regulation
- How to Help Students Who Can't or Won't Study
Learning Disabilities
- The Neuropsychology of Learning and Learning Disorders
- The Neuropsychology of Learning Disorders: The Latest Thinking About What Causes Learning Problems and How to Treat Them
- Dyslexia: Understanding and Treating Reading Disorders
- Learning Differences and Learning Disorders: A Neuropsychological Look at What Compromises Learning and How to Recognize Red Flags
- Strategies for Promoting Reading Fluency and Comprehension
- What’s New?: Advances in the Treatment of Reading and Written Language Disorders
- What’s Missing From Your Toolbox? Instructional Strategies for Teaching Curriculum Content to the Twice Exceptional Child
- Math Disabilities: Understanding and Treating Quantitative Problems
- Addressing Disorders of Written Language and Written Output
- College Bound: Helping Kids With Learning Disorders Get Into College and Be Successful Once They Get There
Attention, Executive Functioning, and Self-Regulation
- Diagnosing and Treating ADHD
- Executive Functioning: Understanding and Developing the Brain’s Command and Control System
- Executive Functioning: A Mind-Body Perspective
- The Neuropsychology of Executive Functioning and Self-Regulation
- Promoting Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: The Role of Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management
- Hope for Children with Deficiencies in Attention, Planning, Organization, and Self-Regulation
- Supporting Children and Adolescents with Executive Dysfunction
- The Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Learning Disabilities: Ideas About Assessment and Intervention
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ADHD Plus: ADHD Subtypes Associated with Mood Disorders, Anxiety, Anger, Obsession, and Sleep Disturbance
- How to Help Students Who Can't or Won't Study
- Non-Medical Approaches to Improving Attention and Executive Functioning: How Effective Are They?
- Addressing Executive Dysfunction and Output Problems in the Classroom
Neuropsychological Assessment
- Assessment of Learning Disabilities: A Neuropsychological Perspective
- How a Neuropsychologist Looks at L.D. and A.D.H.D.
- Beyond the Data: Using Neuropsychological Assessment Results to Guide Interventions at Home and In School
- Using Neuropsychological Testing to Improve Teaching and Learning
- Personality Assessment: Evaluating Emotions, Behavior, and Social Adjustment
The Effects of Stress and Sleep Deprivation
- Stressed Out of Their Minds: How Stress Undermines Learning, Mental Health and Brain Development — And What Can be Done About It
- Stretching Students Without Straining Them: How to Find the Right Balance
- Success With Less Stress: Why Pressuring Students to Achieve is Counterproductive
- How Stress and Insufficient Sleep Harm the Developing Brain – and How Teachers Can Help Saving the Developing Brain
- What Psychologists Can Do to Protect the Child and Adolescent Brain from Stress, Sleep Deprivation, and Harmful Chemicals
- Stress, Learning, and Diversity
- Sleep: The New Frontier for Promoting Brain Development
- Promoting Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: The Role of Sleep, Diet, Exercise, and Stress Management
- Self-Regulation in Children and Adolescents: How An Understanding of Brain Functioning and Brain Development Can Be Helpful to Therapists
- Chemicals: What Drugs, Alcohol, And Junk Food Do To The Developing Brain –– And How We Can Help Children And Adolescents Make Good Choices
- Transcendental Meditation: Research Findings and Clinical Applications
- How Stress Harms the Brain and How Transcendental Meditation Heals It
- Transcendental Meditation in the Classroom
Autism Spectrum Disorders
- The Epidemic of Asperger's Disorder and High Functioning Autism
- Promoting Self-Regulation in Children with Asperger’s Disorder
Emotional and Social Development in Children and Adolescents
- Making Peace with What Is: How Not to Feel Angry, Anxious, or Guilty if Your Child Is Struggling
- The Neuropsychology of Emotion
- The Worried Child: How Teachers and Counselors Can Help Stressed and Anxious Students
- Promoting Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence, and Optimism in Students with LD and ADHD
- “Failure To Launch” –– What Is Interfering With Our Kids’ Ability To Develop Into Independent, Motivated, And Successful Adults? (And What To Do About It!)
- Anger Management: Helping Children and Adolescents Who Get Too Angry Too Often
- Fostering Social Competence in Children and Adolescents
- Dealing with Teasing, Bully, and Aggression in the Schools
- Evaluating and Treating Academic and Emotional Difficulties in Adopted Children
- Helping Inflexible and Explosive Children
Gifted Students
- Stretching Gifted Students Without Straining Them: How to Find the Right Balance
- What’s Missing in Your Toolbox? Instructional Strategies for Teaching Curriculum Content to the Twice Exceptional Child
FACULTY WORKSHOPS AND INSERVICE TRAINING
Over the last few years Dr. Stixrud has presented to the faculty of the following schools:
Washington, D.C. Maryland
Blessed Sacrament School Montessori International Children’s House
Georgetown Day School Holton Arms School
Sidwell Friends School Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart
Edmund Burke School Connelly School of the Holy Child
Washington International School St. Andrew’s Episcopal School
Lab School of Washington Harbor School
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School
St. Alban’s School McLean School of Maryland
Georgetown Visitation High School Little Flower School
National Presbyterian School Sandy Spring Friends School
Aiden Montessori School Barrie Day School
Montessori School of Luthersville
Ruxton Country Day School
Siena School
Virginia Weinberg Academy
Harbour School of Annapolis Burgundy Farm Country Day School Jefferson Montessori School
St. Stephens & St. Agnes Episcopal School Woods Academy
Flint Hill School Montessori School of Westminster
Highlands School Woodlin Elementary
Wakefield School Montgomery County Schools E.D. Unit
Williamsburg Montessori School Churchill High School, Bridge Program
Little Keswick School
Accotink Academy
Yorktown High School
Loudon County Public Schools
Thomas Jeffererson High School for Science and Technology
New York
Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School of Ithica
LECTURES TO PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS
Washington D.C.
Lab School of Washington (Kaiser-Permanente Lecture Series)
Lab School of Washington Scientific Symposium
Sidwell Friends school
Edmund Burke School
The Field School
Georgetown Day School
Washington International School
Kingsbury Day School
National Presbyterian School
Maryland
River Hill High School
Thomas Wooten High School
Robert Frost Middle School
Winston Churchill High School
Walt Whitman High School
Thomas Wooten High School
Montgomery County Public Schools - Emotionally Disturbed Unit
Montgomery County GT/LD Network
Frederick County Public Schools
Norbel School (Norma Hauserman-Campbell Seminar)
Oakmont School
McLean School of Maryland
Little Flower School
Harbour School of Anapolis
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Day School
Siena School
Newport School
Barrie School (monthly lecture series for four years)
Summit School
Hensen Valley Montessori
Woods Academy
Butler School
Montessori School of Luthersville
Chelsea School
Lab School of Baltimore
Virginia
Burgundy Farm Country Day School (Severid Memorial Lecture)
Potomac School (three-part parent lecture series)
Wakefield School
Flint Hill School
Arlington County Gifted Programs
Little Keswick School
Highlands School
Other:
Center for Adoption Support and Education
The World Bank
Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies
University of Maryland Department of Human Development
Washington Independent Services for Educational Resources
Amen Clinic
Maryland Board of Jewish Education
Kids Together
Washington Ethical Society
Loudon County Social Services
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Greater Washington Area
Virginia Association of Independent Schools
Association of Independent Schools of Maryland
D.C. Association of Independent Schools
D.C. Area Association of Small Schools
Virginia Association of Independent Specialized Education Facilities
CHADD of Virginia’s Annual Conference
Lab School of Washington’s Annual Scientific Symposium
Association of Independent Schools of Maryland Leadership Group
Arlington County Public Schools Gifted Services Parent Institute (keynote speaker)
Maryland State Department of Education
St. Mary’s County Division of Human Services
National Conferences
American Montessori Society Annual Conference
National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference.
Independent Educational Consultants Association Annual Conference
Diamonds in the Rough - A National Conference on GT/LD students
National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference
Flint Hill Conference for School Heads
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS
Seminars sponsored by:
Maryland Psychological Association
Lab School of Washington
Catholic University Psychology Colloquium
Children’s National Medical Center (Psychology Training Program)
Child Center and Family Services
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