Common Ground Speaker Series

Stanbridge Academy is proud to be a member school of the Common Ground Speaker Series. Each school year, Common Ground presents distinguished speakers in education, parenting, and health at venues across the San Francisco Peninsula.

​Parents, faculty and staff at dozens of member schools attend Common Ground events free of charge. Guests from non-member schools and the general community are welcome to register and attend virtual live stream events for a non-refundable $10 fee. Registration closes two hours before the start of each event or when maximum registration is reached.

Upcoming Events

Love to Learn:
​Early Education in an AI Driven World
Wednesday, March 11 | 7:00-8:15 PM
in-person at The Girls’ Middle School
In her recent book, Love to Learn, Isabelle Hau, the director of Stanford University’s Accelerator for Learning, argues that strong, loving relationships are the foundation for healthy brain development, resilience, and lifelong learning.  As technical tasks become more driven by AI, relational intelligence (RQ) will become ever more crucial for our children in both social and academic settings. Ms. Hau will share her blueprint for relational learning in the early years and beyond. 
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Registration is open
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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER
Isabelle Hau is the executive director of Stanford’s Accelerator for Learning at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.  She has devoted her professional career to innovating and building a bright future of learning for each and every child.  She has worked at the intersection of education, philanthropy and impact investing, notably at Imaginable Futures, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, where she led the U.S. education initiative. 

Isabelle graduated from Sciences-Po Paris, ESSEC and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.  She currently serves on the steering committee of the EDSAFE AI Alliance and on Brookings Institution’s Global AI Taskforce. She is also part of the World Economic Forum's Education 4.0 Alliance. 

Prior Events

Beginning in Fall 2002, the San Francisco Peninsula's Common Ground Speaker Series has covered a wide variety of parenting, health, and education topics to help launch the next generation. Current Stanbridge families can view recordings of events from current and past seasons. Visit their Past Season webpage for access to videos and speaker notes of prior events, as well as highlights from past seasons. Find the password on weekly SPA Mails or check-in with the current Common Ground Co-Representatives: Pamela Davies & Nicole Koblis.