Goodreads asked Thomas Armstrong:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Thomas Armstrong My most recent book is The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students. The book came about when I was asked by a school superintendent to do a workshop on the adolescent brain for his school district. While I'd previously given graduate courses on childhood and adolescent development, and had already written books that included a focus on the teen years (e.g. The Human Odyssey, The Best Schools etc.), I hadn't focused specifically on the adolescent brain, but I said yes anyway, believing that I'd just do the workshop and that would be it. But after putting together the Power Point slides for the presentation, I realized that there was a book there, so I queried my education publisher ASCD, they liked the idea, I spent about six months going through thousands of articles on the adolescent brain, sat down to write the book, and, as the British like to say, Bob's your uncle!

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