risk taking - Steve Barkley

Risk-taking: A Key to Learning and Building Relationships

Parents realize that technology has presented children with tons of opportunities. It has also introduced risks to kids’ safety. This podcast explores how parents weigh the risk-taking necessary for their […]

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Podcast for Parents: Supporting Risk-Taking

Risk-taking is an important element of learning. Risking and succeeding and risking and failing can both produce new learning and confidence. How do caregivers balance between free-range and helicopter parenting? […]

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Coaching Conversations Uncovering Teachers’ Agendas

Coaching conversations, where the teacher’s agenda emerges and develops over time, increase understanding, build trust, and promote vulnerability and risk-taking. The teacher’s agenda includes the beliefs, values, and thinking behind […]

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Vulnerability to Build Risk Takers

Over the last several weeks I have been engaged in several conversations regarding  goal setting, innovation and change. In several instances I was struck by a hesitancy to think and […]

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