Wedge Visiting Scholar Presentations

Featuring Scott Sonenshein

March 2, 2027

Mark your calendars! The Wedge Institute Seminar is back, and this year's lineup is exceptional. We're thrilled to announce that Dr. Scott Sonenshein will be joining us as a featured speaker.

Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University and bestselling author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – And Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined and co-author (with Marie Kondo) of Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life. His research employs field methodologies (primarily involving qualitative data) to explain the resourceful actions of employees to foster organizational, social and personal change. His work usually follows an inductive approach using grounded theory and other ethnographic methods.

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About this program

The Wedge Visiting Scholar Presentations, a free evening lecture for educators and the public, has been presented each year since 2003 through a gift from the Wedge family. Presentations have included Dr. Jonathan Plucker on "New Developments in Advanced Learning at the State and Local Level";Dr. Carol Tomlinson on “Defensible Differentiation: What Will It Take to Get It Right?”; Dr. Donald Treffinger on teaching children to think critically and creatively; Jonathan Plucker on excellence gaps; Bronwyn MacFarlane on “Curriculum for Every Student to Succeed: Integrating Best Practices from Gifted Education in the Content Areas; and Barbara Kerr on “From Imagination to Innovation: Encouraging Students in STEM.”

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