Help yourself to these resources

Sparks in the Classroom: Find out how to engage your students and bring their sparks (and yours) into the classroom and school community.

Book Discussion Guide: Use these discussion questions to get other adults talking about sparks.

Conversation Starters: These helpful tips and questions will help you get—and keep—kids talking about their sparks and how you can help nurture them.

Ideas for Sparks in Schools: Educators will find these ideas useful in making sparks central to children's school experience.

The Book's Introduction: Read the first chapter of Sparks.

The Table of Contents: See what's included in the book.

What people are saying

“Some parents lack information on parenting, while others feel deluged. Sparks is exciting and useful because it focuses on one very important thing a parent—or grandparent or other caring adult—can do to help a youth fulfill his or her promise. It guides us to help a young person discover and cultivate sparks of talent and interest that can shape the rest of his or her life. Sparks provides a whole new outlook on our relationships with teenagers. I hope it reaches and touches everyone who cares about our nation's youth.”

—Irv Katz, executive director, National Collaboration for Youth

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“Peter Benson’s Sparks is an insightful, step-by-step guide for parents who want to help their teenagers be happier and more engaged but aren’t sure how to go about it. His discussion of young people’s ability to make the world a better place is thoughtful and right on target. Sparks deserves to be read by all adults looking for ways to inspire (and be inspired by) today’s youth.”

—Kathy Cloninger, CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA