The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative, there never was.
– Sir Ken Robinson –
Favourite Books:
Courage to Grow
How Acton Academy Turns Learning Upside Down by Laura A. Sandefer
The One World Schoolhouse
Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
Unschooling Rules
55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education by Clark Aldrich
The Element
How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson, Ph.D. and Lou Aronica
NurtureShock
New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
The Talent Code
Greatness isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How. by Daniel Coyle
Creative Schools
The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education by Ken Robinson, Ph.D. and Lou Aronica
A Thomas Jefferson Education
Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century by Oliver DeMille
Work Rules!
Insights from Google that will transform how you live and lead by Laszlo Bock
Last Child in the Woods
Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Balanced and Barefoot
by Angela J. Manscom
Mindset
The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.
Videos:
Disrupting Education / Education for the 21st Century