Prepared Quotes

“We had really stretched to buy our house in a neighborhood with “good schools.” As I started to ask around and dig a little deeper, I learned that to get into the preschool I drove past every day I was going to have to camp out overnight and hope to secure a coveted spot. And the moms in the neighborhood told me if I wanted to make sure my child got the good teachers in elementary school I would need to start volunteering now for the fundraising committee so I would have influence with the principal. There were tips and tricks about getting into the right playgroups and music classes. Everything was whispered and shared secret club–style because there were only so many spots and everyone was vying for them.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“In the 1950s, the top skills employers wanted were: 1) the ability to work rapidly and for long periods of time, 2) memory for details and directions, and 3) arithmetic computation.2 But according to Forbes, the employees of 2020 need: 1) complex problem solving, 2) critical thinking, 3) creativity, 4) people management, 5) coordinating with others, and 6) emotional intelligence. Employers want innovative thinking, independence, initiative.3 These were not coveted skills in our grandparents’ time.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“But according to Forbes, the employees of 2020 need: 1) complex problem solving, 2) critical thinking, 3) creativity, 4) people management, 5) coordinating with others, and 6) emotional intelligence. Employers want innovative thinking, independence, initiative.3 These were not coveted skills in our grandparents’ time.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“the 1950s, the top skills employers wanted were: 1) the ability to work rapidly and for long periods of time, 2) memory for details and directions, and 3) arithmetic computation.2 But according to Forbes, the employees of 2020 need: 1) complex problem solving, 2) critical thinking, 3) creativity, 4) people management, 5) coordinating with others, and 6) emotional intelligence. Employers want innovative thinking, independence, initiative.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“While the basic idea of learning from failure is supported by evidence, the sink-or-swim method doesn’t really work. Failing is only productive when two things are true: first, the person who fails actually learns something from it and is thus motivated to try again; and second, the failure doesn’t permanently close future doors.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“Those five behaviors are strategy-shifting, challenge-seeking, persistence, responding to setbacks, and appropriate help-seeking.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Timebound.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“It’s one thing to love it, and another to be willing to fight for it.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“The textbook approach may be more standardized and straightforward, but it doesn’t ask kids to think deeply, make connections, or solve problems. “How a bill becomes a law” becomes an individual, disconnected piece of information, something a student will likely forget once the test is over. The standardized test is another clear obstacle to PBL.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“when we enable kids to follow their curiosities and interests, they learn much more. As they learn much more, they get better at learning. It becomes a virtuous cycle.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“to ask questions that provoke the mentee to reflect on what they want, who they are, what they care about, how they feel, and, ultimately, what they should do as a result—not because someone told them to do it, but because it is an authentic choice for them. It”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“Our communities need adults who, when they encounter a complex moral issue, have the decision-making skills to contemplate both sides, apply different types of reasoning, and question assumptions.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“Grades offer little in the way of objectivity, as two-thirds of teachers acknowledge their grading reflects progress, effort, and participation in class. Grades offer little consistency, as grading rigor varies from teacher to teacher and from school to school. And grades offer little in the way of specificity; most parents and some students don’t know the reasoning behind a letter grade.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

“Simply put, mastery is when you become good at something, autonomy is when you have some measure of control, and purpose is when you’re doing something for a reason that is authentic to you.”
― Diane Tavenner, Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life