The
Call to Brilliance
A true story to inspire parents and educators
From Amazon.com:
In an engaging memoir, award-winning educator,
Resa Steindel Brown is drawn to the astonishing
discovery that all children are born brilliant.
With insightful commentary, she recalls her own
trials as a student and teacher in our industrial,
one-size-fits-all educational system. Then she encounters
the needs of her young son. Finding a fit is like
trying to stuff an odd-shaped child into a square
hole. The love for her child propels her on a journey
that sweeps her own children, and the children around
her, into a learning environment driven by joy,
exuberance and passion instead of heartbreak and
defeat.
Unable to read until ages nine and ten, they entered
college at eleven and twelve, became systems administrators,
chief technology officers, trained with the Berlin
Opera and Hamburg Ballet, created digital images
used in the film "Lord of the Rings,"
presented software solutions to TRW, Pac Bell, Industrial
Light & Magic, NSA, Sony, and more, all before
the ages of eighteen.
The Call to Brilliance shows parents and educators
how to redirect children's challenges into strengths,
discover children's interests, fuel their interests
into passions, and their passions into brilliance.