The Art of Talking With Children

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rebecca Rolland is the author of The Art of Talking with Children (HarperOne, March 2022). She is a national certified speech-language pathologist and adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She lives in Boston with her family.</span></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The power of language transforms with music.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">A framework to access what lights people up.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Build resilience by micro moments and through everyday conversations. </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Question starters used to create meaningful conversations.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Seven key areas  to</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Art of Talking with Children.</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">  </span></li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help students draw on their natural resilience and raise their awareness about themselves.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Counteract bias and help students celebrate the differences among others.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The idea is to be creative about what you wanna get across, about the curriculum, about your overall goals, and about how you can bridge those goals with the goals or interests of your students. Rather than saying, ‘I'm going to sit here and wait for students to come to me.’ How do you create that equal bridge where students are coming with their interests, you're coming with your goals and interests, how do you actually meet in the middle?"