We just got back from the biennial International Mind Brain and Education Society conference in Los Angeles and wanted to follow up with some of our key take-aways.

• This conference (and society) is an exceptional place for people interested in the intersection between neuroscience and education at all levels, there were presentations by school administers alongside some of the top neuroscientists and geneticists in the country. And, connections were being made all over the place between the lab and the classroom. We’ll be going back in two years!

• The research presented by Ellen Bialystok (and many colleagues) on the benefits across the lifespan of bilingualism were jaw-dropping, and super inspiring to our lab who are still hard at work collecting data from local families on the kinds of storybooks that best support dual-language learning.

• Along those lines, IMBES was a great venue for getting feedback on some of our initial conclusions and future questions about dual-language s(which we’ll be posting about soon)hared reading…

  

• There were so many other presentations that had us scribbling down references, and notes and questions and ideas that we can’t list them all here. (Yet)