A quick update on some key events happening TODAY and during reading week.  Eliot Washor will be here tonight to speak about education reform.  Details are provided below.

http://www.bigpicture.org/elliot/

Starting at 1 PM today, there will be a bike tour of Fair Haven and New Haven nonprofits.  Bikes are complimentary!  Go to the nearest college and ask for a bike...

Check out the "Real Women Have Curves" screening and the conversation with BIll Summers with women in science if you've got the time this week as well.

Elliot Washor will be at Yale this Monday, December 7^th in LC103 from 7-8pm to discuss how we can effectively use longitudinal studies of non-cognitive variables to reform underperforming urban schools.

Mr. Washor has been involved in school reform for more than 30 years. He is a co-founder and director of Big Picture Learning and the George Lucas Education Foundation has named him one of the "Twelve Most Daring Educators."

Come join the conversation as he discusses his current work on how we can effectively use longitudinal studies of non-cognitive variables- such as social relationships and motivation- to reform underperforming urban schools.