Here are some of the inspirations that ignite our passion and guide our practice:
- Changing education paradigms, 2010 TED Talk, Sir Ken Robinson
- The Hundred Languages of Children, Carolyn Edwards, Leila Gandini, and George Forman
- 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), Gever Tulley
- Start Empathy, an initiative of Ashoka, and the Changemaker Schools Network
- Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
- Hackschooling makes me happy, Logan LaPlante (age 13) at TEDxUniversityofNevada
- The Power of Play, David Elkind
- Math: Facing an American Phobia, Marilyn Burns
- The Foundations of Literacy, Donald Holdaway
- When Stories Come to School: Telling, Writing, and Performing Stories in the Early Childhood Classroom, Patsy Cooper
- The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Ken Robinson, Ph.D. (with Lou Aronica)
- Literature as Exploration, by Louise M. Rosenblatt
- Writing Through Childhood, by Shelley Harwayne
- Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, John Gottman
- Playful Parenting, Lawrence Cohen
- Connection Parenting, Pam Leo
- Emotional Development in Young Children, Suzanne A. Denham
- The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles and Help Your Family Thrive, Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.
- Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Kohn
- The Big Picture: Education is Everyone’s Business, Dennis Littky (with Samantha Grabelle)
- Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, Tony Wagner
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, Paul Tough
- A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown
- In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization, Deborah Meier
- TEACH through Love, Lori Petro