{"id":27167,"date":"2012-02-17T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=27167"},"modified":"2012-02-17T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:33:24","slug":"kids-are-fires-to-be-lit-tedxtc-peter-benson-sparks-how-youth-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/02\/17\/kids-are-fires-to-be-lit-tedxtc-peter-benson-sparks-how-youth-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kids are fires to be lit.&#8221; TEDxTC &#8211; Peter Benson &#8211; Sparks: How Youth Thrive."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TqzUHcW58Us\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TEDxTC &#8211; Peter Benson &#8211; Sparks: How Youth Thrive.<\/strong><\/a> <em>&#8212; my thanks to Mr. Joseph Byerwalter for this item<\/em><br \/>\nPeter L. Benson, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, is one of the world&#8217;s leading authorities on positive human development. Dr. Benson is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on child and adolescent development and social change, including, most recently, <em>Sparks: How Parents Can Help Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some thoughts\/notes from this video:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 1\/4 of our youth are on the path to thriving.<\/li>\n<li>The human spark\/the animating engine involves joy, energy, passion, connection, meaning, hope, direction, purpose, hope.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Spark&#8221; is akin to the idea of spirit.<\/li>\n<li>Three kinds of sparks:<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li>A skill or talent<\/li>\n<li>A commitment (ex: social justice, stewardship of Earth)<\/li>\n<li>A quality (ex: person of empathy)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Helping, serving, volunteering, learning a subject matter, service to the globe, athletics, and the creative life are key here.<strong> The winner is the creative life &#8212; art, music, drama, dance!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEDxTC &#8211; Peter Benson &#8211; Sparks: How Youth Thrive. &#8212; my thanks to Mr. Joseph Byerwalter for this item Peter L. Benson, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Search Institute, is one of the world&#8217;s leading authorities on positive human development. Dr. Benson is the author or editor of more than a dozen books on child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,434,46,406,256],"tags":[706,777,4,765,700],"class_list":["post-27167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-dramatheater","category-k-12-related","category-motivation","category-music","tag-art","tag-dramatheater","tag-k-12","tag-motivation","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27172,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27167\/revisions\/27172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}