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Community Engagement and Education Speaker Series
2025-26
Welcome to our 2025-2026 Speaker Series! We have invited the following guests to talk with our community about parenting and child development. These speakers will explore the complexities of our children’s lived experiences and discuss ways to better support them.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 - Hanna Novak, Director of The Center for Connection
Executive Functioning for Students
Please join us for a conversation with Hanna about how to support the executive functioning needs of students, which involves coming to a better understanding of processes that can help our children plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and manage tasks more effectively, followed by Q&A.Executive Functioning for Students
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - Dr. Aliza Pressman, Developmental Psychologist
Raising Good Humans
Please join us for a keynote address by Dr. Pressman on the strategies (i.e., Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair) we can use to regulate our own emotions and behaviors throughout our parenting journey and raise our children to be better humans, followed by Q&A. Dr. Pressman is the host of the 'Raising Good Humans' podcast and the author of The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans.Raising Good Humans
There will be more information to follow regarding how you register to attend each event. Please join us for these important opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions.
2024-25
We invited the following guests to talk with our community during the 2024-25 year about conditions and stages of development that shape children’s growth. These speakers helped us explore what children may be processing about their social and emotional lives and identities, equipped us with the language we may need to better understand the complexity of our children’s lived experiences, and discussed ways we can better support them.
Past events
Monday, October 21 - Dr. Tovah Klein
How to Raise Our Children to Face Life's Challenges
Author, Raising Resilience: How to Help Our Children
Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
A keynote address by Dr. Klein on the importance of allowing children to face adversity so they can develop the skills and resilience needed to navigate life, followed by Q&A. Monday, November 11 - Dr. Nita Farahany
How Emerging Technologies Impact Our Daily Lives...and Our Children's
Author, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
A conversation with professor and leading scholar Dr. Farahany about the social, ethical, and legal implications of emerging technologies on our daily lives and what this means for our children, followed by Q&A.
Tuesday, December 10 - Drs. Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel
Tuesday, December 10 - Drs. Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel
The Power of Showing Up for Your Children
Authors, The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
A keynote address by Drs. Bryson and Siegel on the importance of consistently showing up for your children as a predictor of their happiness, success, and ability to develop meaningful relationships, followed by Q&A.
The Center for Early Education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. The Center embraces a philosophy of education that combines a nurturing, inclusive learning environment with an increasingly challenging academic program that addresses the developmental needs of each child.