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Professional Development

Learning Profiles: Differentiated Instruction for Diverse Learners

The Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Processes that Underlie Learning

The Assessment and Treatment of Dyslexia and Other Reading Disorders

Leading for Learning

Learning Connections

Training Seminars and Workshops

Plain Talk Summits

Plain Talk About Reading Institute

Educator's Library

Plain Talk About Kids: CDL's Summit on Learning and Teaching

PLAIN TALK ABOUT KIDS is a national summit addressing critical and emerging issues surrounding teaching and learning. The three-day PLAIN Talk Summits, held in New Orleans generally every two to three years, provide a forum for informed conversation, knowledge connection and knowledge creation among educational, judicial, mental health and medical professionals, community and business leaders, and parents. The goal of the summits is to build the capacity of teachers, parents, students, schools and universities.

After the Summit, follow-up forums are held across Louisiana, free to those who attended the summit. The purpose of the forums is to provide an opportunity to share and network, explore topics from the summit in greater depth, and begin plans of action.

Attendees have said great things about the Plain Talk Summit program:

"personally and professionally invigorating"

"School leaders should practice what was presented here, and keep children at the forefront of all decisions and actions."

"The speakers helped me realize that I can change my classroom environment. I am recharged."

"an astonishing reinforcement of the worth of the teacher as an ambassador of child development"

"I was able to freely ask questions and receive valuable advice and insight."

Find out more about CDL's next PlainTalk Summit.

At our last Summit, teachers interacted with national and international experts in the fields of education, medicine and psychology:

Click here to learn more about obtaining the transcripts of many of these presentations.

Educators leave Plain Talk Summits with extensive, usable information on school reform and improvement; the art of teaching; professional development; teaching our most vulnerable children; the learning process; reading; and school success. But, perhaps more importantly, attendees were able to interact with these nationally and internationally known experts, getting answers to real-life questions.

Who Should Attend? Anyone Who Cares About Improving Education:

Let us know if you want us to send you Summit information as soon as it is released.