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Denver Academy’s Symposium focuses on meeting the needs of diverse learners, their families and those professionals who serve them.

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On behalf of Denver Academy and our conference planning committee, it is my pleasure to invite you to attend DA’s 2015 Symposium on Teaching and Learning.

This year’s Symposium will be the seventh in a series of conferences hosted at Denver Academy focusing on meeting the needs of diverse learners, their families and those professionals who serve them. Past keynote speakers include: Dr. Daniel Amen, Dr. Robert Brooks, Kelley King, Kim Bevill and Richard Lavoie.

For the 2015 Symposium, we are proud to announce that Dr. Wolf will be our keynote speaker. Her monumental book, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, brought a fresh and critical perspective about the history of reading, the development of literate minds and both the challenges and gifts of dyslexia.

Dr. Wolf’s opening keynote will bring the perspective of the remarkable journey that the reading brain has taken over the past five thousand years, as well as show us why children with dyslexia have reading difficulties and amazing gifts. Her closing keynote will focus on the future of the reading brain. Taking the longview, from the clay tablets of the Sumerians to modern day digital devices, our reading brains are undergoing dramatic transformations. Dr. Wolf will discuss what profound implications this could have for every child and for the intellectual development of our species.

Along with our featured keynote speaker, we invite you to attend two break-out sessions led by Denver Academy faculty and experts from our community. All sessions are designed with this year’s theme in mind; a complete listing is featured in this brochure as well as on the Symposium website.

As our collective understanding of the reading brain in the digital age continues to evolve, our teaching, learning and parenting must keep pace in order to create the best world possible for our children. Our Symposium is designed to help us navigate that landscape and plot our next steps as teachers, parents and professionals.

We hope you’ll join us on March 6, 2015.