Expert on Work and Family Life to Speak at Reunion 2015

NCS is pleased to welcome alumna Ellen Galinsky ’60 as a featured speaker during NCS Reunion 2015. She will speak on Saturday, May 2 at 9:30 am in the Whitby Hall Assembly Room. NCS alumnae, community members, and friends are invited to attend. Alumnae are asked to RSVP through their Reunion registration for themselves and any guests.

Galinsky is the president and co-founder of the Families and Work Institute (FWI). She helped establish the field of work and family life as a member of the faculty at Bank Street College of Education, where she served for 25 years. At the NCS Reunion, she will speak about the importance of life-skills learning in early childhood and beyond when it comes to future success in life. The key skills, based on executive function skills, include: focus and self-control; perspective taking; communicating; making connections; critical thinking; taking on challenges; and self-directed, engaged learning.
Galinsky’s more than 100 books and reports include the best-selling Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, Ask The Children, and the now-classic The Six Stages of Parenthood. She has published over 300 articles in journals, books and magazines. Read more about Ellen’s education and family here.
 
Ellen is the recipient of two NCS Alumnae Citations (1990, 2005) and recently contributed to the NCS Magazine (Winter 2015) an article entitled, “On Being Disruptive,” in which she discusses what has motivated her throughout her career.
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