Storybook Luncheon

2012 Storybook Luncheon

Wednesday, March 14, 2012
11:30 a.m.—1:00 p.m.

Forsyth Medical Center Conference center
Guest Speaker: Dr. Robert Pianta,
Dean of the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

The storybook luncheon is an annual fundraiser based on friends inviting friends to share time together, have lunch and enjoy an engaging and thought provoking speaker in the field of child development. During the luncheon, guests will be asked to consider making a contribution to support the operations of the Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem. The Storybook Luncheon is the Museum’s second largest fundraiser each year and pivotal to its operations.

About the speaker: Dr. Robert Pianta

Dr. Robert Pianta is the Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia as well as the Novartis US Foundation Professor of Education and a Professor in the Department of Psychology. He serves as the Director of the National Center for Research in Early Childhood Education and the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Pianta’s work focuses on policy and practices that enhance children’s outcomes, school readiness and later achievement. His recent work focuses on the assessment of teacher quality, teacher-child interaction, and child improvement, using standardized observational assessment, and video feedback. He has also recently begun to extend his work into design and delivery of professional development using web-based formats and interactive video.

Dr. Pianta has published more than 350 scholarly papers and is lead author on several influential books related to early childhood and elementary education. Dr. Pianta received a B.S. and a M.A. in Special Education from the University of Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and began his career as a special education teacher.