Prepared

What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

By: Diane Tavenner

Narrated by: Pamela Dillman

A blueprint for how parents can stop worrying about their children’s future and start helping them prepare for it, from the cofounder and CEO of one of America’s most innovative public-school networks

“A treasure trove of deeply practical wisdom that accords with everything I know about how children thrive.”—Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author of Grit

In 2003, Diane Tavenner cofounded the first school in what would soon become one of America’s most innovative public-school networks. Summit Public Schools has since won national recognition for its exceptional outcomes: Ninety-nine percent of students are accepted to a four-year college, and they graduate from college at twice the national average.

But in a radical departure from the environments created by the college admissions arms race, Summit students aren’t focused on competing with their classmates for rankings or test scores. Instead, students spend their days solving real-world problems and developing the skills of self-direction, collaboration, and reflection, all of which prepare them to succeed in college, thrive in today’s workplace, and lead a secure and fulfilled life.

Through personal stories and hard-earned lessons from Summit’s exceptional team of educators and diverse students, Tavenner shares the learning philosophies underlying the Summit model and offers a blueprint for any parent who wants to stop worrying about their children’s future—and start helping them prepare for it.

At a time when many students are struggling to regain educational and developmental ground lost to the disruptions of the pandemic, Prepared is more urgent and necessary than ever.

Must read for anyone for anyone who cares about learning!

If you care about your kids, your own learning or professional development, this is a MUST READ. Anecdotes are pointed and the concepts need to be foundational for the future of learning at schools, colleges and companies alike. For best results I strongly urge reading in combination with Ultralearning by Scott Young.

Educators must read/listen

Very inspiring for anyone who is either an educator or an educational designer. Working on curriculum design and listening to this book at the same time was very helpful! Recommended.

Smart ideas

This book is full of a lot of smart ideas. Most of them, educators have known for a very long time. However,We don’t usually have the tools or resources to do anything about it. This book offers resources that can help. I hope that some of them do. They seem to be working for the author.

Every parent and educator should read this.

As a parent I loved this book! Not only is there practical advice but I think if enough parents read this it could be the start of an education revolution!

loved the ideas about education, but

loved the ideas about education, but I was painfully struggling with the overly sticky narrator voice and talk about the author's feelings