#  2018 Conference Agenda 

 



## 2018 HILT Conference, "Implementing the Science of Learning to Advance the Art of Teaching"

Held on Friday, September 21, 2018, at Wasserstein Hall, Harvard University.



 

##  Program Overview 

**8:30 am** Breakfast and registration

**9:00 am** Welcome remarks with Lawrence S. Bacow, President, Harvard University

**9:30 am** Framing the day with Erin Driver-Linn, Dean for Education (SPH); Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT)

**10:00 am** Keynote: The Intentional University  
A conversation exploring educational practices at Harvard with a former Harvard faculty member who used an outcomes-based, science of learning approach to start a new university, and a former Senator and Governor who has advocated strongly for broad reform in higher education

- Claudine Gay (moderator), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
- Bob Kerrey, Former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska
- Stephen Kosslyn, Founder, President, and CEO of Foundry College

**11:00 am** Unpacking the Plenary  
[*Breakout sessions 1*](https://hilt.harvard.edu/2018-breakout-sessions)

**12:00 pm** Implementation Workshops  
[*Breakout sessions 2*](https://hilt.harvard.edu/2018-breakout-sessions)

**1:15 pm** Lunch Plenary Featuring a conversation with Provost Alan Garber and incoming Vice Provost for Advances in Learning Bharat Anand

**2:30 pm** Closing