Equity, Child and Family Wellbeing, and Healthy Societies

Mother and child with text "Equity, Child and Family Wellbeing, and Healthy Societies"
February 17, 2022 11:00am
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Faculty
MIT Community
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Speakers

Michael McAfee, Ph.D., President and CEO of PolicyLink

Larissa Duncan, Ph.D., Faculty at the Center for Healthy Minds, Elizabeth C. Davies Chair in Child & Family Well-Being, Director of the Center for Child and Family Well-Being, and Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Register for free today to join us on February 17 and to be notified of future events in the series.

About the Systems Awareness in Education: A MIT Conversation Series

We invite you to join us in a series of virtual conversations on compassionate systems change in education launching on January 13, 2022, hosted by MIT Open Learning, MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, and MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing.

​​We believe that education can be a leading sector in helping shape the cultural changes needed throughout society and that education innovators around the world are busy doing just that. This new conversation series will bring researchers, educators and practitioners together to explore work in student and educator wellbeing, classroom practice, and collaborative leadership at the district, region, state and international levels. Discussions will focus on the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change and equity to declining mental health and well-being.

Some key questions and themes we will explore in this series are:

  • How can we better understand profound change processes that can shift underlying mental models and institutional structures at multiple levels in education? Without trivializing or over-simplifying, how can we foster a sense of confidence that real systems change is possible?
  • How can busy educators and practitioners caught in the frenzy of everyday work and the challenges of our COVID-19 reality learn to pause, wonder, and explore how to get beyond our habitual quick-fix approaches as a substitute for deeper change? How do we develop more coherent strategies for creating the social and institutional conditions for larger scale and longer-term change?
  • How can we support a gradual re-orientation to seeing education, and especially pK-12 education, as a critical locus for societal innovation?

Join us for this important and timely conversation series as we explore how we understand, enable and measure system change in the making within education. Our hope is that the conversations will be helpful to educators, school leaders, teacher leaders, researchers, and anyone interested in deep change in education.