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LESSONS:
  • Real, open, organic, good, healthy
  • Giving opportunity
  • Recognizing talent (latent?)
  • Capitalize on enthusiasm
  • Avoid shaming
  • Consequences to exercising autonomy
  • Life-long learners
  • Doing something you love
  • Someone who believes in you / Relationships
  • Engagement trumps content
  • Charism / inspiration counts / Modeling
  • Observation vs. Evaluation
  • Passionate interests
  • Learning how to learn


SKILLS FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
  • Ability to make space to think
  • Exploring 
  • Contemplation
  • Balance
  • Ability to learn
  • Improvising
  • Making connections
  • Vulnerability
  • Experience unconfortableness
  • Able to make mistakes
  • Orient yourself
  • Preparation
  • Discerning of information "literacy"
  • Discipline
  • Concentration
  • Recognize difference


STRATEGIES / POSSIBLE ITEMS FOR YOUR LEARNING PLAN
  • Look for mentors
  • Build relationships
  • Work toward self-direction
  • Encourage working on hard things
  • Make learning plans / involve
  • Find things you want to learn
  • Foster agility and resilience
  • Look for diversity of opinion
  • Make the invisible visible
  • Resist intervention / don't solve problems
  • Model
  • Field trip
  • Learn an instrument
  • Read Zinn


RESOURCES
  • Yong Zhao 
    World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students
    Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization
  • Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
  • Max Lucado, You Are Special
  • Jamie Vollmer, Schools Cannot Do It Alone: Building public Support for America's Public Schools
  • Cal Newport, How to Be a High School Superstar
  • David H. Albert, And the Skylark Sings with Me - Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education
  • Tony Wagner, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World