Denise Clark Pope

For the past 10 years, Denise Pope has specialized in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods and service learning. She is a co-founder of Challenge Success, a research and intervention project that aims to reduce unhealthy pressure on youth and champions a broader vision of youth success. Challenge Success is an expanded version of the SOS: Stressed-Out Students project that Pope founded and directed from 2003 to 2008. She lectures nationally on parenting techniques and pedagogical strategies to improve student health, engagement with learning and integrity. Her book, Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students (2001) was awarded Notable Book in Education by the American School Board Journal. Pope is a three-time recipient of the Stanford University School of Education Outstanding Teacher and Mentor Award. Prior to teaching at Stanford, Pope taught high school English in Fremont and college composition and rhetoric courses at Santa Clara University.