Slow Homeschooling:Essays About Mindful Homeschooling This is a small but mighty book. Just 64 pages, it contains a powerful collection of 23 essays that touch upon a range of issues that parents grapple with as they explore the decision about homeschooling, and more issues that arise once they start on their homeschooling journey. Take […]
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Self-directed Learner Mid-year Mobility Check
Mobility is a beautiful thing. Physical, social, or intellectual Being able to move, to be fluid, to progress. To change. To choose. To feel the power and joy of moving, reaching, stretching, walking, growing. I am so grateful for all the kinds of mobility in my life. Last week I lost my physical mobility for […]
Making Parenting Choices: Using the Ask-Try-Do Framework to Change your Approach to Learning
I love this quote of Diane Flynn Keith: We can get too easily bogged down in the academic part of homeschooling, a relatively minor part of the whole, which is to raise competent, caring, literate, happy people. I still shake my head at the time and energy we wasted when we began homeschooling […]
Are You Growing or Killing Creativity?
It’s been ten years since Sir ken Robinson gave his inciting Ted Talk, Do Schools Kill Creativity? Since then his books and talks continue to challenge us to transform education— to value varied talents, build creativity, and help people find their element. Here are some questions and recommendations with quotes from his book Out of […]
