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June 29, 2006 - Chapel Hill, NC -- North Carolina parents, educators, administrators and public education officials will have the chance to learn about learning directly from renowned pediatrician Mel Levine, M.D. on Thursday, December 1 from 9:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. at the Connecting Minds Symposium in Durham. Dr. Levine will speak about eight neurodevelopmental constructs that impact learning, identifying learning difficulties without labels, and bringing optimism and hope to the process of addressing children’s individual challenges.
Dr. Levine is Director of the Center for Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is co-founder and co-chair of All Kinds of Minds. He is also the author of the best-seller, A Mind at a Time, as well as The Myth of Laziness and Ready or Not, Here Life Comes.
After Dr. Levine's keynote speech, the rest of the two-day symposium will be devoted to educators who have participated in the Schools Attuned Program, North Carolina. This state-funded initiative has provided All Kinds of Minds’ research-based professional development to 3,000 public school educators since it began in 1998. Participating teachers have said that their experience with the Schools Attuned Program has helped not only students who struggle with learning, but all children in their classrooms.
The symposium will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center RTP in Durham. The morning session with Dr. Levine costs $45 and includes a continental breakfast. For more information, contact Christie Smith at 919-933-8082 x2221.
All Kinds of Minds helps students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific and clinical expertise. The non-profit Institute provides the Schools Attuned Program for educators, the Student Success Program for student assessments, the Understanding All Kinds of Minds program for parents and caregivers and Educational Care seminars for educational leaders. More information is available online at www.allkindsofminds.org.
