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Intentional Innovation: How to Guide Risk-Taking, Build Creative Capacity, and...
How can educators prepare students for an uncertain future? A.J. Juliani, a former middle and…
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The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of...
Parents—a noun, something an individual may be—have existed for as long as there have been…
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
“Empathy can motivate kindness to individuals that makes the world better.” Paul Bloom, the Brooks…
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Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change by Wilma Koutstaal...
How can creativity and innovation give rise to positive changes in ourselves and the world…
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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst...
Humans are capable of horrifying aggression, dehumanization, destruction, and violence and at the same time…
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Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments...
Today’s learners have different needs than those of yesterday. Educators and policy makers, therefore, need…
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The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach to Understanding How the...
Reading is a complex cognitive task. How is it that our minds are able to…
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The Brain: The Story of You by David Eagleman
As an easy-to-read and engaging textbook or as a scientifically accurate and detailed popular psychology…
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The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World by...
People are inherently information seekers. In today’s high-tech world this tendency can draw us to…

Unselfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-about-me World by...
Children and adolescents with greater empathy tend to be happier, more successful, more resilient, and…
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