Left Brain Child

being left-brain in a right-brain world...

Interviews:

September, 2009. Exceptional Parent and Child. Left Brained, Left Behind? Read the interview
November, 2009. The Parents Journal with Bobbi Conner. Parent's Notes: A Little Help for the Socially Reluctant Child. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download
November, 2009. Gifted Exchange. The Left-Brain Child. Read the interview
January, 2010. Nurturing the Nurturers. Interview with Tina Cahill on webtalkradio.net. Listen
March, 2010. SENG Newsletter. Improving Self-Confidence & Social Skills Read the interview
October, 2010. Interview on BAM radio with Rae Pica. Are Schools Effectively Teaching Collaboration? Listen
September, 2011. Interview on Topics in Education with Ken Capron. Listen
January, 2012. Interview on Harrisburg Public Radio, Radio Smart Talk. Listen

Talks:

October, 2009. Book talk. Chapters Bookstore, Pittsfield, MA.
October, 2009. Book talk. Northshire Books, Manchester, Vermont.
November, 2009. Book talk. Big Blue Marble, Philadelphia, PA.
January, 2010. Book talk. Penn Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA.
March, 2010. Book talk. Yale Bookstore, New Haven, CT.
March, 2010. Book talk. Hamden Public Library, Hamden, CT.
March, 2010. Book talk. Backpages Books, Waltham, MA.
March, 2010. Yale China Association Fireside Chat. Yale China Association, New Haven, CT.
June, 2010. Book talk. Yale Club of New York.
October, 2010. Addressing the Needs of Mathematically Gifted Left-brainers and How About a Nice Game of Chess. New England Conferences on the Gifted and Talented.
February, 2012. TEDx Talk, Enola PA. Helping the World by Helping Our STEM Kids. Watch

Articles:

The Reform Math Problem. Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed, November 9, 2009.
Rethinking Cooperative Groups. Encounter Magazine, Winter, 2010.
Review of Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great America School System. Nonpartisan Education Reviews Vol.7, No.12011.
Conventionalization in Indirect Speech Acts: Evidence from Autism. In E. Yuasa, T. Bagchi, and K. Beals, Pragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In Honor of Jerry Sadock, John Benjamins Publishers, 2011.
Assessing K12 Assessments. Commentary, Education News. May 31, 2011.

For more information:

Contact Katharine Beals at katharine [dot] p [dot] beals [at] gmail [dot] com

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