Vanessa Vega

Trained in the learning sciences, I'm passionate about increasing educational opportunity and leveraging digital media to support knowledge-sharing and collaboration among K12 educators, administrators, and researchers. Previously, I was a lecturer in Media Studies at UC Berkeley, and a researcher with the Center for Learning in Informal and Formal Environments at Stanford, where I studied impacts of media-multitasking on youth learning, advertising to children, and physiological underpinnings of social learning from video media.

At Edutopia, I work on bridging research and practice throughout the site, and hopefully making research more useful for practitioners through Research Reviews, coverage of Schools That Work, and blogs:

Teacher Development and Leadership Research Review (5 pages)

Technology Integration Research Review (5 pages)

Project Based Learning Research Review (5 pages)

Social and Emotional Learning Research Review (4 pages)
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Schools That Work Case Study on Social and Emotional Learning at Mt. Desert Elementary

Schools That Work Case Study on Global Competence at John Stanford International School

Schools That Work Case Study on Collaborative Learning at College Prep Academy

Schools That Work Case Study on Engaging Students in STEM Learning at MC2 Stem School

Schools That Work Case Study of Arts Integration at Wiley Bates Middle School

Schools That Work Case Study of 100% Project-based Learning Manor New Tech High School

Schools That Work Case Study of Financial Literacy at Ariel Academy

Schools That Work Case Study of Schoolwide Meditation at Visitacion Valley Middle School

Schools That Work Case Study of Cochrane Collegiate Academy