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Children’s Well-Being & access to education

Below are the best resources we could find on Children’s Well-Being and access to education.

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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

Jennifer Mcilwee Myers, Temple Grandin

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Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents

Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy and Oren Jay Sofer provide a powerful guide to help teachers master the essential competencies needed to successfully share mindfulness practices with teens and adolescents.

Matthew Brensilver, JoAnna Hardy, Oren Jay Sofer

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The Ignored Issue that Can Get Progressives Elected

A 2007 poll found that the biggest issue for voters as the 2008 election approaches is not the Iraq war. It’s an issue that leaders have not been focusing on: the well-being of America’s children.

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Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum

International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum.

Temple Grandin, Debra Moore

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How to Escape Education’s Death Valley | Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish—and how current education culture works against them.

Kenneth Robinson

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Celebrating Neurodiversity in the Classroom

Tracy Murray has witnessed a lot of change in her 27 years of work in classrooms. But in her view, no shift has been as radical—or as positive—as the difference in the way children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are viewed by society.

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20 Things Only Parents Of Children With Dyslexia Would Understand

Dyslexia. It’s a word many parents dread when they hear it about their own children. Their “lay” minds take in that they have a child who will face struggles throughout their schooling and in life. Dyslexia never goes away.

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Do Schools Kill Creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines, creativity.

Kenneth Robinson

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Out of Our Minds: The Power of Being Creative

Out of Our Minds explores creativity: its value in business, its ubiquity in children, its perceived absence in many adults, and the phenomenon through which it disappears―and offers a groundbreaking approach for getting it back.

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You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world’s most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face.

Ken Robinson, Lou Aronica

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