Join us and special guest, Jonathan Haidt, for
Uplift Education's Dinner & Dialogue
Thursday, October 3, 2024
at 6:30 p.m.
Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. Dinner at 7:15 p.m. Complimentary valet parking
Featured speaker:
Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist, professor, and author of The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.
Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006) and of the New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012) and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks. In 2019 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction.
Moderator:
John Gasko
Chief Well-Being & SEL Officer, Uplift Education
Dr. Gasko and his team ensure that Uplift students have access to regular and reliable preventative and supportive mental health practices and also build the necessary mental health and well-being practices for the adults who serve students each day.
Dr. Gasko has coined this term as “teacher dropouts” and feels the issue is as critical to address as student dropouts. Dr. Gasko also believes there are ways to stem the tide and recover hope and purpose, by intervening early and often in order to keep the best teachers in front of students. Since students need positive, secure attachments as a critical ingredient to feel a sense of belonging in school, a constant stream of interrupted adult presence in the classroom due to turnover hinders those relationships.
