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Videos
The Hero’s Journey at Action Academy
Most Likely To Succeed Trailer
Jet Cockpits and The End of Average
TED: Sir Ken Robinson | Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Disruptive Education: The Acton Academy Story
TED: Sal Khan (Khan Academy) | Let’s Teach For Mastery – Not Test Scores
TED: Sugata Mitra | Build A School In The Cloud
Grit: Angela Lee Duckworth | The Power Of Passion And Perserverance
TEDxOKC: The Learner-Driven Revolution | Jeff Sandefer
A Virtual Tour Of Acton Academy
TED: Let’s Use Video To Reinvent Education | Salman Khan
Acton Academy – A Day In The Life
Children’s Business Fair – An Annual Tradition
Books
Courage to Grow, by Laura Sandefer, co-founder of Acton Academy Austin
The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go Of Who You think You’re Supposed To Be and Embrace Who You Are, by Brene Brown
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Brave Parenting: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Children by Krissy Pozatek
How To Raise An Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
The Self Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud & Ned Johnson
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education, by Clark Aldrich
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, by Sal Khan
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education, by Sir Ken Robinson
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google that Will Transform How You Live and Lead, by Laszlo Bock, Former Head of People Operations at Google
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How., by Daniel Coyle
A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching A Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century, by Oliver DeMille
Fooled By Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto), by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote for Chaos, by Jordan B. Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan B. Peterson
The Importance of Being Little, by Erika Christakis
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children, by Alison Gopnik
Articles
Two Forms of Human Motivation: Pain and Gain – Farnam Street Blog, Shane Parrish and Steve McClatchy
The Coddling of the American Mind – The Atlantic, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt