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We’re all born playful. But when we grow up, we learn to suppress this critical, hardwired instinct and our lives become ruled by “getting things done.” As world-famous designer Cas Holman explains, this disconnection from our playful selves is hazardous to everything from our emotional wellbeing to our ability to problem solve and innovate. The

For National Teacher Appreciation Day on May 7th, we are sharing a collection of titles about teaching, from personal stories that include advice and act as a guide for new or aspiring teachers to books about the history of education that show the struggles teachers have endured and the gains they received from persistence.

We are sharing books for Future Teachers of America Day on November 20th in celebration of teachers who uplift and educate their students. The books in this collection give insight on the challenges and joys within the profession and provide personal experiences for future teachers to aspire to as they set their own goals. We

One of Silicon Valley’s top leadership trainers distills his proven framework that has empowered teams at the world’s most innovative companies—from Google and Facebook to Cisco Systems and biotech giant Genentech/Roche—to do the best work of their lives.     Richard Lee has worked with thousands of ambitious leaders and their teams, and has found

February is Career and Technical Education Month, described as a time to “celebrate the value of Career and Technical Education and the achievements and accomplishments of CTE programs across the country.” Find a history of career and technical education here.   We’d like to highlight a few books that can help your students navigate their

Viking/Penguin shares the sad news of the passing of Sir Ken Robinson, internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation, and human potential, and author of such bestselling books as The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Creative Schools,  and You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education. Robinson died on Friday,

Contributed by Heather Won Tesoriero, author of  The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America (Ballantine Books, 2018). In the fall of 2015, I was a producer for the CBS Evening News. We were planning to do an endpiece for the show about Olivia Hallisey, a Greenwich, CT, teenager who