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Holiday Greetings and Give the Gift of Life Skills!

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December 12, 2011

Dear Friends,

Families and Work Institute wishes you a joyous holiday with your friends and families and a peaceful, healthy and successful 2012 in your work and home lives.

In response to the significant number of requests for signed copies of Ellen Galinsky’s latest groundbreaking book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs*, as holiday gifts, we have decided to make this offer available to all of our friends and colleagues.

If you have a special someone on your holiday list to whom you would like to give a signed copy of Mind in the Making, please contact Marline at mgriffith@familiesandwork.org to place an order and to tell us how you want the message in the book to read.

Best wishes,
Families and Work Institute

*Cost of a signed copy of Mind in the Making,including regular shipping and handling, is $20.

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Here is a list of Mind in the Making researchers and educators filmed to date

Community Schools: “Mind in the Making and Community Schools: Crossing Boundaries and Creating Strong Linkages for Children Birth through Eight and their Families,” is a collaborative project with The Children’s Aid Society’s National Center for Community Schools and the Institute for Educational Leadership. (Read more)

Learning Communities: Throughout the country, groups of parents, educators, and other family support and health professionals have joined together to learn more about the research on children’s learning from birth through the early elementary school years, and about how to use this research to promote better outcomes for children. (Read more)

Learning Modules for Educators: Mind in the Making Learning Modules for Educators is an 11-part, facilitated learning process designed to bridge the gap between research and teaching practice. (Read more)

Seven Skills Modules: We have created new Modules from the book, called the Mind in the Making Seven Essential Skills Modules. (Read more)

Experiments in Children's Learning DVD: This two-volume series of 42 videos take viewers on a series of virtual “field trips” to laboratories in the U.S. and abroad. (Read more)
View a crosswalk of the experiments to the seven essential life skills

Download a companion Catalogue to Mind in the Making: Experiments in Children's Learning

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