Announcing the MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series for 2024-2025
The MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series is thrilled to unveil our speaker line-up for the 2024-25 school year! Local and nationally recognized experts will lead parents in conversations about wide-ranging topics, including navigating the evolving cultural landscape around sex, parenting in our high-achievement environment, exploring the difficulties of parenting boys in contemporary society, learning about a case study in racism at a local high school, and making informed decisions about higher education.
NEXT UP:
Ruth Whippman
BoyMom: Exploring the Challenges of Raising Men in the Modern Age
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 | 7PM | Los Altos High School – Eagle Theatre
With young men in the grip of a loneliness epidemic and dying by suicide at a rate of nearly four times their female peers, Whippman asks: How do we raise our sons to have a healthy sense of self without turning them into privileged and entitled brats? How can we find a feminism that holds boys to a higher standard but still treats them with empathy? And what do we do when our boys won’t cooperate with our plans?
EVENT CALENDAR
Peggy Orenstein
Let’s Talk About Sex: How a New Generation Navigates Hookups, Porn, Love & Consent
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, 7PM
Los Altos High School – Eagle Theatre
Jennifer Wallace
Never Enough: Mattering as a Solution to Toxic Achievement Pressure
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 7PM
Crittenden Middle School – Auditorium
Ruth Whippman
BoyMom: Exploring the Challenges of Raising Men in the Modern Age
Tuesday, November 19, 2024, 7PM
Los Altos High School – Eagle Theatre
Dashka Slater
Accountable: Dealing with Racism in Our Own Backyard
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 7PM
Mountain View High School – Spartan Theater
Discussion Panel, Moderated by Laura Duran
How to Find the Right College?
Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 7PM
Mountain View High School – Spartan Theater
Please check back throughout the school year for more detailed information and registration for each event. MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series events are free, thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.
RESERVE YOUR SEAT
Our events do fill up. As we add events, we will also add links to our registration information. Check back here often to reserve your spot!
Our Sponsors
The MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series is made possible thanks to the continued generosity of our sponsors.