Hawaii Book & Music Festival 2022

How do we keep the fire for learning -- that every child is born with— lighting up the eyes of children? To answer the question, Ellen Galinsky reviewed more than 2,000 studies and conducted in-depth interviews with and filmed more than 130 leading researchers who study children’s development and learning. From what she learned, Ellen developed a framework of the 7 Essential Life Skills, published in her groundbreaking book, Mind in the Making. The work grew into MITM, a national movement to share scientifically-based research and strategies for promoting Life Skills, reaching millions of people in communities across the country.

Ellen Galinsky--already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace - draws on fresh reasearch to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America's fate in the 21st century. - Judy Woodruff, Anchor and Managing Editor, The PBS NewsHour.

Produced for the Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.