“The most important thing you can learn in this era of heightened global competition,” writes Thomas Friedman, author of the The World is Flat and an expert on globalization, “is how to learn.” Being good at learning, Bill Brody, president of Johns Hopkins University tells me, is sure to be an enormous asset in this… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Social and emotional learning
The Circle of Security
Half a dozen mothers are watching videos of themselves caring for their toddlers, taped in their homes a week or two before. The videos present a montage of each of the mothers with their toddlers in warm moments. The soundtrack: the song “You Are so Beautiful.” “That is the song,” the group leader tells them,… Read more »
Kids and Lead: A Puzzle Solved
“What do you believe that you cannot prove?” was the question posed to me and maybe a hundred others by The Edge, a website devoted to cutting edge thinking. In my answer, I proposed that children we unintended victims of larger technological and economic forces that inadvertently were hampering the development of emotional and social… Read more »