Patricia Alexander, fresh off of her participation in the SERA annual conference, will be visiting LU on February 6. Her workshop will be held from 1:00 until 2:00 PM in 702 MJGL. Dr. Alexander, Mullan Professor of Literacy and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a workshop that will weigh potential differences between information management and knowledge building orientations to schooling and consider their implications for teaching, learning, and human development. She will focus on the role that these differing orientations have on students’ beliefs about knowledge and knowing and the resulting “habits of mind” they manifest in educational settings. Finally, she will explore the value of relational thinking strategies for bridging the differences between an informational-management and a knowledge-building orientation to learning and development. This workshop is part of the Center for Teaching+Learning Enhancement's distinguished speakers series. Faculty will receive participation credit towards the Faculty Development Program. Thanks to Dr. Kal Hamza of the Department of Counseling and Special Populations for helping to make this visit a reality.