The Center for Scholars & Storytellers (CSS) Presents: 

Learning from Home: How Can Storytellers Play a Part in This New Normal?

Occurred on November 11, 2020 @1pm PT

In partnership with the Child & Family Blog

Dr. Roberta Golinkoff

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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph.D., is the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware and director of the Child’s Play, Learning, and Development laboratory. In 2015, she accepted the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Golinkoff was also was named a Distinguished Scientific Lecturer by the American Psychological Association and in 2017, she was awarded the Society for Research in Child Development’s Distinguished Scientific Contribution award. In 2018, she was awarded the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award. Her latest book, Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children reached the New York Times best seller list in 2016. Dr. Golinkoff lectures internationally about language development, playful learning, spatial development, and the impacts of media on young children. She co-founded the Playful Learning Landscapes movement whose goal it is to transform cities to promote the wellbeing of children and families. She has appeared on numerous radio and television shows and in print media and never turns down an opportunity to spread the findings of psychological science to the lay public.

Halle Stanford

Halle Stanford is the President of Television at The Jim Henson Company. An Emmy® winning and ten-time Emmy®-nominated television producer, Halle Stanford leads the Company’s development and production of all television, home entertainment, and digital media in animated and live-action formats establishing the Company’s creative culture across all territories. Stanford most recently executive produced the short form series Fraggle Rock: Rock On! for AppleTV+ and the critically acclaimed Emmy-winning Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. She is currently executive producing the newly announced Harriet the Spy and Fraggle Rock series, both for AppleTV+. Stanford’s award-winning credits also include the Emmy®-nominated Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train, which currently air on PBS KIDS® in the U.S. and in multiple markets around the world, the live-action puppet series Me and My Monsters for the CBBC and Network Ten in Australia, the Lifetime live-action holiday special Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow, as well as the Emmy®-nominated preschool series Pajanimals for Universal Kids. In addition to her Emmy® nominations, Stanford is a recipient of the Cynopsis Kids !magination Award in Content Leadership, and over the last sixteen years has garnered over 100 honors and nominations around the globe for the Company’s programming.

In collaboration with the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television the Livestream will be recorded and hosted on the CSS website for future viewing.