I have my first day of school today (yes, on a Friday) and my students return next Tuesday. Just as I was scanning my RSS reader for the last time before bed last night, I came across a TED Talks playlist titled All Kinds of Minds. I had watched three of the four in the playlist before, but it was a great reminder for me that the world really is made up of all kinds of unique minds that have great things to offer. These TED Talks provide powerful reminders of that. And that is something that I will strive to remember the next time I’m working with a “difficult” mind.

Temple Grandin’s TED Talk is embedded below.