Resources
Organizations
Big Picture Learning
Buck Institute of Education
Challenge Success
Center for Courage and Renewal
Edutopia
Expeditionary Learning
High Tech High
Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP)
Ed Visions
National Equity Project
New York Performance Standards Consortium
PassageWorks Institute
Place-Based Education
Progressive Education Network
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools
Teaching Tolerance
Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education
Association for Mindfulness in Education
Center for Sustainable Change
Dream of the Good
Mindful Schools
Niroga Institute
Project Happiness
YogaEd
Youth Community Service
Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society
Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Garrison Institute
Greater Good Science Center
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Mind and Life Institute
Pachamama Alliance
Project Cornerstone
International Association for Children's Spirituality
KidSpirit Magazine
Spirituality in Higher Education (UCLA)
Reading
Rachael Kessler, The Soul of Education
Parker Palmer, To Know as We Are Known
David Elkind, Children and Adolescents
Mel Levine, A Mind at a Time
John Creger, The Personal Creed Project and a New Vision of Learning
Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning
William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching
Dorothy Cohen, The Learning Child
Lisa Delpit, Other People's Children
Diane Hart, Authentic Assessment
Nel Noddings, The Challenge to Care in Schools
Edward T. Clark, Designing and Implementing an Integrated Curriculum
Wendy Mogul, The Blessing of the Skinned Knee
Denise Clark Pope, Doing School
James Banks, Educating Citizens in a Multicultural Society
Haim G. Ginott, Between Parent and Child
Susan Kaiser Greenland, The Mindful Child
Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Research
A Conversation with Vivian Gussin Paley
Caring Kids: The Role of the School
Video
Mindfulness in Middle School: https://vimeo.com/170687659
Play is More Than Fun: https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital
Being Happy When You Grow Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
Just Breathe, children talk about mindfulness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVA2N6tX2cg
Ken Robinson principles of learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX78iKhInsc
Dan Meyer on math problem solving: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover.html
Students learn to give and receive critique: http://vimeo.com/38247060
Japanese teacher awakens compassion: http://www.wimp.com/homeroomteacher/
How Wolves Change Rivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
Dan Barber, food and ecological redemption: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_how_i_fell_in_love_with_a_fish#t-785646
Michael Tilson Thomas: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_tilson_thomas_music_and_emotion_through_time
Peter Senge: aspirations and performance: http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/2013-09-16-14-48-56/cbb-video-presentations/2013/1801-peter-senge
The typing concerto: https://www.youtube.com/embed/G4nX0Xrn-wo
Landfill Harmonic Orchestra -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrSUHK9Luw
Cleaning the oceans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROW9F-c0kIQ
choice: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosing.html