PLEASE NOTE: This page describes our 2009 Fall Conference.  The 2010 Fall Conference will be held October 15th and 16th at Stanford University.

Challenge Success/SOS Conference:   

Our Fall 2009 Conference will take place on September 25-26, 2009.

Applications are available under the "events/conferences" page.

Fall Plenary Session              Free and Open to the Public

Friday September 25, 2009

Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Introduction: 

Denise Pope, Ph.D., Co-founder, Challenge Success/SOS, Stanford University School of Education Senior Lecturer, and author of “Doing School": How we are creating a generation of stressed-out, materialistic, and miseducated students.

Keynote Speakers: 

Michael Thompson, Ph.D. is a consultant, author and psychologist specializing in children and families.  He is the clinical consultant to The Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than five hundred schools across the United States, as well as in international schools in Central America, Europe and Asia. He and his co-author, Dan Kindlon, wrote the New York Times best-selling book, Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (Ballantine Books,1999). In addition, Dr. Thompson is the author of several other acclaimed books, including Best Friends/Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Worlds of Children (Ballantine, 2001) and The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Achieve Success in School and in Life (with Teresa Barker, Ballantine, 2004).  

Chris Kelly is the Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy at Facebook, guiding Facebook’s efforts to make the Internet a safer and more trusted place.  He has previously served as Chief Privacy Officer at three other Internet companies, Spoke Software, Excite@Home, and Kendara, and was an attorney in private practice at Baker & McKenzie and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati.  Chris also served as a policy advisor in the Clinton Administration. He was Editor in Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and part of the founding team for the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Panelists:

Madeline Levine, Ph.D., Co-founder, Challenge Success/SOS, and clinical psychologist and best-selling author of The Price of Privilege.

Three Students will offer their perspectives on primary stressors and coping strategies in middle school and high school.

How to Find Memorial Auditorium
   Download our directions in PDF format.
   Use Google Maps to find Memorial Hall.
   Download a printable PDF Visitor Map of the Stanford University campus.

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Challenge Success Conference 

Saturday September 26, 2009

History Building

Conference reserved for invited school team members.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

8:30 - 9:00	Check-in / Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10	Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:20	Team Work Time
10:20 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:50	Workshop Session 1:   1A. Students’ Views of School Stress: Developing Coping Strategies Presenters:   Madeline Levine, Ph.D.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success, and Clinical Psychologist     Denise Pope, Ph.D.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success, and Senior Lecturer, Stanford University   Suggested audience: Students only     1B. How to be an Effective Facilitator for School Reform Presenter:   Jim Lobdell, M.A.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success       Pattie Dullea   Principal, Ross School   Suggested audience: Team leaders     1C. Adolescent Health Trends: What You Need to Know Presenters (partial listing):   Paul Stricker, M.D.   Youth Sports Medicine Specialist       Catherine Miller, M.D.   Adolescent Medicine Specialist       Mikiko Huang, M.D.   Pediatrician   Suggested audience: All     1D. Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity Presenters:   Rosemarie Menager-Beeley, Ed.D.   Professor, Foothill College, and co-author of "Understanding Plagiarism"     Jamie Pontius-Hogan   Judicial Advisor, Office of Judicial Affairs, Stanford University       Patricia Tennant   Principal, St. Francis High School   Suggested audience: All     1E. This Works! Sharing Best Practices of Challenge Success Teams Presenter:   Mollie Galloway, Ph.D.   Director of Research, Graduate School of Education and Counseling   Lewis and Clark College   Suggested audience: All
11:55 - 12:45	Lunch
12:50 - 2:10	Workshop Session 2:   2A. A Parent’s Guide to Reducing Academic Stress Presenter:   Jim Lobdell, M.A.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success    Suggested audience: All     2B. Building Resilience by Meeting Developmental Needs Presenter:   Madeline Levine, Ph.D.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success, and Clinical Psychologist   Suggested audience: All     2C. Teaching for Engagement Presenter:   Denise Pope, Ph.D.   Co-Founder, Challenge Success, and Senior Lecturer, Stanford University   Suggested audience: Administrators, teachers, and staff     2D. College Admissions: The Long View Presenters:   Dan Beam   Principal, Beam, Inc.     Kevin Lum Lung   College Counselor, The Harker School    Suggested audience: All   2E. Are We Reducing the Stress? Collecting Data and Benchmarking Presenter:   Mollie Galloway, Ph.D.   Director of Research, Graduate School of Education and Counseling   Lewis and Clark College   Suggested audience: Administrators, teachers, school staff
2:10 - 2:20	Break
2:25 - 3:40	Panel Session: Lessons Learned from Challenge Success
3:45 - 5:00	Team Work Time / Conference Conclusion

 

If you missed the Friday night plenary session in September 2008, you can order a DVD of the evening from the Palo Alto Media Center.  Thank you to Andrew and Carol Mellows for donating their services to make this DVD.