The Mary E. Hensley Lecture Series - History

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Year	Speaker	Topic
2024	Dr. Peter Langman	School Safety: Identifying 3 Types of School Shooters
2018	Lennie Vessels	Words I Never Heard
2014	Stephen Ritz	Farming for the future: investing in your community to change the world
2013	Cynthia Lowen	Filmmaker of the award-winning documentary Bully
2012	Dr. Mike Schmoker	First Things FIRST for the 21st Century
2011	Rafe Esquith	National Teacher of the Year and author of the best-selling book Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
2010	Erin Gruwell	How a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them
2009	Ruby Payne	A framework for understanding poverty
2008	Rachel Simmons	Odd Girl Out: girls write about bullies, cliques, popularity and jealousy
2007	Robert Brooks, Ph.D.	The power of mindsets: nurturing motivation and resilience in students
2005	Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.	Emotional intelligence
2004	Ron Clark	How to teach difficult children
2003	Mitch Albom	How many lives to you impact while living your own life?
2002	Dave Pelzer	How many victims of child abuse are left behind in our society?
2001	Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld	The Overscheduled Child and Hyper-Parenting
2000	Dr. Sylvia Rimm	Underachievement
1998	Robert J. Sternberg	Cognitive psychology
1997	Barbara Clark	Brain research and learning