I was so delighted when Ellen Galinsky first asked me to contribute to her Mind in the Making project, and am thrilled to have her share my research on infant and child development and that of my colleagues as broadly as possible.

— T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Brazelton Touchpoints Center

Community Schools and Mind in the Making

“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. It has just received four years of funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Our overall goal is to work in a total of 7 communities over the course of 4 years, bringing Mind in the Making to an estimated 15,000 people. Our goals for this project are the following:

Goal 1: Integrate Mind in the Making and the Seven Essential Life Skills into the Early Childhood and Community Schools (ECCS) Linkages Projects in Tulsa, OK, Multnomah County in Oregon, and The Children’s Aid Society’s community schools in NY.

Goal 2: Expand the Mind in the Making and Seven Essential Life Skills Modules work with community school initiatives into 4 additional communities.

Goal 3: Use the Mind in the Making Learning Modules for Educators as a means of going deeper in approximately 3 sites.

Goal 4: Create a web-based, credit-bearing curriculum for the Seven Essential Life Skills Modules.

Goal 5: Widely share lessons learned from using Mind in the Making and the Seven Essential Life Skills Learning Modules as a focal point for educational innovation in community schools and for educators and families throughout the country.

Goal 6: Promote an evaluation of the community-based work with Mind in the Making.

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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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