ABOUT/ ROSS LEARNING SYSTEM/ MENTORS/ MEDIA PROJECTS/ CONTACT/ SUPPORT Mentors Many of the world’s leading thinkers have personally contributed to the evolution of the Ross Model and participated in our efforts to expand and reshape education. Courtney Sale Ross founded Ross School and Ross Institute in collaboration with expert mentors William Irwin Thompson and Ralph Abraham, who served as co-architects of the Ross Spiral Curriculum, and Howard Gardner as consultant for pedagogy and assessment. The founding curriculum document, “Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness,” was written by Thompson in 1995. From that beginning, the Ross Mentor Program has maintained and expanded relationships with a diverse array of experts including mind brain education scholars, neuroscientists, media specialists, cultural historians, chaos mathematicians and more. Mentors and scholars assist with curriculum development, guide workshops for Ross School faculty and the Institute’s educational experts. They also present and meet with students and lead research projects aimed at improving teaching and learning. Among those who count themselves as Ross Mentors are economist Jeremy Rifkin, neuroscientist and inventor Hideaki Koizumi, scientist and engineer Danny Hillis, sociologist Pedro Noguera, neuroscientists Antonio and Hanna Damasio, paleoanthropologist Yves Coppens, sociologist and media scholar Sherry Turkle; cultural psychologists Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco; global education thought leader and futurist Charles Fadel; and many more. Mentor Presentations JEREMY RIFKIN: THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2010 A CONVERSATION BETWEEN COURTNEY ROSS & JEREMY RIFKIN ANTONIO DAMASIO: SYSTEMS, BIOLOGY & THE PROBLEM OF LIFE / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2012 ANTONIO DAMASIO "THE BRAIN: CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION & INNOVATION" (EXCERPT) / ROSS SUMMER ACADEMY HOWARD GARDNER: FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTURE / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2007 PART 1: DESIGNING A CURRICULUM YVES COPPENS ON THE LASCAUX CAVE PAINTINGS / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2014 MARY HELEN IMMORDINO-YANG - ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY: OUR BODIES, OUR MINDS, OUR SELVES (EXCERPT) PEDRO NOGUERA: EDUCATION IN CHANGING CONTEXTS (EXCERPT) / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2009 PIERRE LENA: MAN AND THE UNIVERSE STEVEN COHEN: A POSITIVE VISION OF THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABILITY TODD ROSE: MYTH OF THE AVERAGE - VARIABILITY MATTERS / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2012 TODD ROSE: ROLE OF WORKING MEMORY IN 21ST C EDUCATION (EXCERPT) / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2009 TODD ROSE: MYTH OF THE AVERAGE - VARIABILITY MATTERS / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2012 CHARLES FADEL: WHAT SHOULD STUDENTS LEARN IN THE 21ST CENTURY? (EXCERPT) / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2012 CAROLA SUAREZ-OROZCO: SCHOOL CULTURE / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2008 BEN FRY: UNDERSTANDING DATA: EXPLORATION AND STORYTELLING DANNY HILLIS: THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW DAVID WILGENBUS: EDUCATING STUDENTS TO THINK ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY DR. ANTONIO BATTRO & ALUMNA BRONWYN ROE 'BUTTERFLIES OF THE SOUL' COLLABORATION GONZALO SÁNCHEZ­-TERÁN: ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2014 INTERVIEW: GONZALO SÁNCHEZ­-TERÁN / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2014 HUMAN IMPACT ON EARTH: CRITICAL DIALOGUE II / ROSS INSTITUTE SUMMER ACADEMY 2014 INTERVIEW WITH "MR. SOROBAN" AT ROSS SUMMER ACADEMY 2011 KIERAN MCNULTY: HUMAN EVOLUTION AND SUSTAINABILITY: FROM HOMO SAPIENS TO HOMO SUSTINENS LAMA TENZIN YIGNYEN DISCUSSES COMPASSION MA JUN: CHINA'S GREEN CHOICE MARK DI SUVERO AT ROSS SCHOOL DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER: OCEAN ACIDIFICTION BRUCE STEWART: COPERNICUS STARTED A REVOLUTION / ROSS SCHOOL GRADE 12 LECTURE SERIES BRUCE STEWART: PYRAMIDS AT GIZA / ROSS SCHOOL GRADE 12 LECTURE SERIES BRUCE STEWART: THE LORENZ ATTRACTOR / ROSS SCHOOL GRADE 12 LECTURE SERIES info@rossinstitute.org / 631-907-5300 / ©Ross Institute English