Slate School's Education Idea Lab presents an hour-long conversation about curiosity-driven education with Slate School's Head of School, Julie Mountcastle. She will be in conversation with Wendy Ostroff, Author of Cultivating Curiosity in K-12 Classrooms.

Please join us live from Slate School on Thursday, December 17, from 6:00-7:00pm Eastern Time. Register for this free virtual event below, and participation instructions will be thereafter sent to you.

About Julie Mountcastle and Wendy Ostroff

Julie Mountcastle is Head of School, Grade 2/3 Teacher, and a member of the founding team of Slate School in North Haven, Connecticut, where she developed and leads the school’s unique curiosity-driven curriculum. Julie has been an educator since 2001 and has been at the forefront of child-centered education. Before becoming a teacher, Julie was a professional actress and appeared in plays and musicals on Broadway, on London's West End, and in regional theatre across the country. She is a passionate advocate for arts in the classroom.

Wendy Ostroff is an applied developmental and cognitive psychologist and a professor in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, a seminar-based program that prepares prospective teachers and emphasizes critical reading, writing, and thinking. The author of the books Understanding How Young Children Learn: Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom (2012, ASCD), and Cultivating Curiosity in K-12 Classrooms (2016, ASCD), she has been designing and teaching interdisciplinary courses on child development, learning, and education for more than 15 years. She offers workshops on applying child development research for scientists and practitioners, and is passionate about innovative and emergent pedagogies and state of the art teacher education.