Here are a few videos we thought you might enjoy:

In this space we share videos that we’ve come across – and a few that we’ve made – that we think inform some of the topics in our blog. We hope that you find them useful. Each is described below, with a separate link to the video as well, for your convenience.

• ASCD’s The Whole Child: The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Calls on parents, educators, policymakers, and communities to join forces to ensure our children become productive, engaged citizens. Our children deserve an education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential 21st century skills of critical thinking and creativity.
• Art Institute of Chicago for Parents and Educators: How to Engage Your Children in Art. Learn tips and techniques that help young visitors make the most of their museum visit and enriches their encounters with art, both in the museum and at home.
• Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts.