Coffee with Dr. Alice Wilder - Co-creator Blues Clues & Super Why! Children’s TV expert, Grable fellow

In her own words... "I create, develop, produce and research high quality educational and entertaining products for kids. I base all of my work on the philosophy that ‘the only way to understand what children are capable of doing, what appeals to them, and what they know, is to ask them!’ The goal is to impact children's lives in positive ways."

There is so much to be learned over coffee with Dr. Alice, not to mention so much good energy and creativity flowing. This is the perfect time to enrich your life through a conversation with one of the world's foremost developers in the world of children's learning... who's groundbreaking work in formative research was cited in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Dr. Alice serves as the educational advisor responsible for developing the Amazon Kids Original Programming learning approach and is helping implement Amazon's unique educational point of view into the development of new series. In this role, she is also an Emmy Award winning Co-Executive Producer and Head of Educational Development for Tumble Leaf, Co-Executive Producer and Head of Educational Development for The Stinky and Dirty Show, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Creative Galaxy on Amazon Instant Video. In addition, she is the Chief Learning Officer for Speakaboos, a kid-centric, cross-publisher literacy platform. She also is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids the “School House Rock” of financial literacy for 7-12 year olds, airing in Asia on Cartoon Network.

Dr. Alice is co-creator and head of research and education for Super WHY! on PBS Kids, and served as a Producer and the Director of Research and Development for Nick Jr.’s Blue’s Clues. And she is a senior fellow at the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media. She continues to advise the Kids & Creativity group in Pittsburgh, bringing kids and their point of view to help support educators, technologists, and makers as Kidsburgh creates a model and movement around the integration of the arts, sciences, and technology to inspire creative learning and play.

Her groundbreaking work in formative research was cited in The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. Alice bases her work in formative research on the philosophy that ‘the only way to understand what children are capable of doing, what appeals to them, and what they know, is to ask them!’'

More about her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-alice-wilder-53b4487 *Note: Coffee with... is at the time, place and convenience of our coffee host above and must be redeemed within 6 months of auction close.