February 26, 2016
In this video, Dr. Linda Charmaraman gives an overview of the ongoing Media & Identity Project.
October 23, 2015
April Pattavina, Ph.D. and Linda Williams, Ph.D. work with police, prosecutors, victim advocates, agencies, and victims themselves to research sexual assault case processing. In this video, they explain why their collaborative research style is needed to understand the complexities of justice systems and gender based violence.
In this video, Amy Banks, M.D., talks about how to form healthy and thriving social connections.
In this video, Amy Banks, M.D., talks about social pain and how people respond to it in the same way as they do physical pain.
In this video, Amy Banks, M.D., talks about the theory that humans are hardwired to connect.
Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), discusses the After School Gets Moving Program in this video series. After School Gets Moving is a randomized control trial study of the impacts of a professional development resource for out-of-school time program staff on children’s pedometer step counts in a national sample of out-of-school time programs. In this series, Hall gives details about the program, its goals, conclusions found at this point in the study, and future goals for the project.
Sarah Trantina, kindergarten teacher at the Edward Everett Elementary School in Boston, MA, discusses how the Open Circle program works in the school.
Nicole Mack, former principal at the Edward Everett Elementary School in Boston, MA, discusses how the Open Circle program works in the school.
Nancy Marshall, Ed.D, senior research scientist and associate director at the Wellesley Centers for Women, gives us a glimpse into the core foundations and the work and research from the past 35 years here at the Centers in this presentation.
Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., spoke at the Fourth Annual Jean Baker Miller Memorial Lecture on October 21, 2011. Her talk, "Fighting Like A Girl: How Girls Can and Do Make a Difference" focuses on public perceptions of girls' anger, the media's manipulation of young girls, and the response of young women today trying to combat sexism. Brown is a co-creator of the non-profit Hardy Girls, Healthy Women and author of the book Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls.
December 1, 2011
In this colloquium, Getting to the Truths About Race: Reflections on the politics of connecting in The Help, award-winning journalists Christina Robb and Callie Crossley and psychologist-scholar Maureen Walker, Ph.D., discussed The Help and relationships between African American and white women.
Michelle Porche, Ed.D., senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) discusses her research on childhood trauma and its effect on a student's learning and performance in school.
In this video series, Peg Sawyer, B.S.Ed., trainer and coach with the Open Circle program, presents a brief overview of the field of social and emotional learning, and provides examples of literature that connect to key developmental skill areas.
March 7, 2012
In this video, Ellen Gannett, M.Ed., director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women, speaks about NIOST summer seminars.
In this video series, Amy Banks, M.D., Director of Advanced Training at the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute (JBMTI), Judith Jordan, Ph.D., Director of the JBMTI, and Maureen Walker, Ph.D., Director of Program Development at the JBMTI discuss the some of the work of the Institute.
In this video series, Wendy Surr, M.A., Research Associate at the National Institute of Out-of-School Time (NIOST), and Ellen Gannett, M.Ed., Director at NIOST, explore the current issues surrounding expanded learning opportunities (ELOs).
Nancy MacKay, B.A., interim co-director and training director at the Open Circle program, discusses Open Circle.
In this video, Ellen Gannett, M.Ed., director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women, talks about the Survey of Afterschool Youth Outcomes Youth Survey (SAYO-Y), a tool that is part of the Afterschool Program Assessment System (APAS).
In this video, Ellen Gannett, M.Ed., director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women, talks about the improvements NIOST has made to After-School Quality (ASQ).
In this video, Ellen Gannett, M.Ed., director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women, talks about the Afterschool Matters (ASM) initiative, which is comprised of the Afterschool Matters Journal, fellowships, and grants for researchers who are working on out-of-school time and afterschool projects.
In this video, Sumru Erkut, Ph.D., associate director and senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, talks about the Critical Mass Project.
Laura Pappano, writer-in-residence for the Wellesley Centers for Women, discusses the barriers that women face when playing sports, and what individuals and communities can do to help generate even more change for women in sports.
This clip from "In the Forefront at the Center," explores the work of Dr. Nancy Marshall on early child care and education.
Since 1979, the School-Age Child Care Project has grown to become the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
In 1979, Jim Levine and Michelle Seligson launched the School-Age Child Care Project, which has now grown into the National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
In 1992, WCW collaborated with the American Association of University Women to publish How Schools Shortchange Girls.
In WCW's early days, Rosalind Barnett, Ph.D., and Grace Baruch, Ph.D., studied stress and the ways in which men and women are impacted by it.
Nan Stein, Ed.D., was the co-principal investigator and lead author of a Seventeen magazine (September 1992) survey on sexual harassment in schools, Secrets in Public: Sexual Harassment in Our Schools.
Susan McGee Bailey discusses the ways in which research impacts our lives.
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