Reschooling Posts // January 14-20, 2024
Vawisai is the Way On language in movements (and a lot of other stuff) w/Antonio Buehler
January 20, 2024 from Re-thinking Self-Directed Education
What’s missing from the term Self-Directed Education? What could an alternative term be? Who holds the lines on the values in movements and communities, and why? Will Bria _finally_ accept that Vawisai is the way? And are all terms and movements destined to be co-opted?
Doing It Together
January 20, 2024 from Swimming Upstream
It’s been a week. I got covid, we got slammed with a blizzard, and we’re getting our house ready to sell. (Yes, we are moving. But more on that in the next Life in Practice post…) It’s been a week and our usual practice of off-screen time and daily writing practice went to hell. I was in survival mode and wasn’t about to be lesson planning for kids who don’t really want or need the lessons anyway.
Painful Childhood Experiences and Mature Perspective
January 20, 2024 from Let ‘em Go Barefoot
When I was four years old, I attended a preschool named, The Little Red School House. Here is where I learned how to tie my shoes, realized how much I loved to sing, and where I experienced fear, betrayal, and sadness. One particular day, my preschool teacher announced that she needed to leave our classroom for a few minutes. We were told to stay seated and to be quiet. She then put one of my peers, my friend (or so I thought), in charge.
61. Supporting Transgender Kids w/ Orion Queer
January 19, 2024 from Radical Learning Talks
For us, unschooling is about so much more than learning or who gets to decide what it is and how and when it unfolds. It's about dismantling the power structures that keep all of us less than who we are or have the potential to be. And this starts with looking at our own limiting thoughts and beliefs.
On the Journey with Jahaira Luzzi, Episode 358
January 18, 2024 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
This week, we’re back with another On the Journey episode. Pam and Erika are joined by Living Joyfully Network member Jahaira Luzzi. Jahaira is an unschooling mom of two, ages 6 and 8, and a former early childhood educator.
100 Sensory Activities For All Ages
January 17, 2024 from Different By Design Learning
It started when my son’s occupational therapist handed me a worksheet describing a “Sensory Diet.” I went home in tears. I remember thinking as I sobbed in the parking lot, “How am I going to add this in to all that we are already doing? I feel like I’m failing already.” It just felt like more.
The Learning Game | A Conversation with Ana Lorena Fabrega
January 17, 2024 from Raising Lifelong Learners
We’ve all been there — questioning the one-size-fits-all approach of traditional education. You’re probably aware that the natural instinct to learn can sometimes be stifled by conventional methods. So, how do we foster our kids’ love for learning in a way that’s tailored to their unique strengths and interests?
Personal Finance For Teens: Everything Your Child Needs For Real Life
January 16, 2024 from Different By Design Learning
One of the things that surprised me most when my oldest son went away to college last year was how confident he was in overall life skills. Personal finance was one area that he felt capable and confident managing on his own.
What Could You Learn If School Didn't Monopolize All Your Time?
January 16, 2024 from School Survival Blog
Ahoy there, fellow seekers of wisdom! So, you're pondering the vast expanse of knowledge that lies beyond the classroom walls, wondering, "What could I learn if school didn't snatch away my precious hours faster than a hungry squirrel nabs an acorn?"
Of Cars and Kids and Playing Outside
January 16, 2024 from Free Range Kids
Kids running around and playing outside till the streetlights came on. That was Charles Brewer’s childhood — and dream. To make it happen in modern-day America, he developed Glenwood Park in Atlanta, a neighborhood that hewed to the tenets of “New Urbanism.” That mean it had, “town houses, offices, retail, walkable streets, a nice town square, and a park,” Brewer said.
#55 Deschooling and moving beyond our limiting beliefs, with Lucy Aitkenread in New Zealand
January 16, 2024 from The Unschool Space
In this episode, I'm chatting with Lucy Aitkenread. Lucy is originally from the UK, but 10 years ago, set off travelling with her partner Tim, and their two young daughters. They settled in New Zealand, which is where they live now. Their daughters are now 10 and 13 and haven’t been to school.
School isn't always the solution to homeschool struggle
January 16, 2024 from a life unschooled
Hello friends, we are in what is beginning to feel like an extended period of not-quite-rightness, punctuated by fleeting moments, sometimes whole days, of fullness and joy. Enough to keep us going a bit longer. Not enough to leave us feeling like this is sustainable. It’s easy to look back and see years of care-free homeschooling, and compare it to what now often feels extremely effortful, but the truth is that nobody said homeschooling was going to be easy. And in fact it never has been.
The Science of Discovery Learning
January 15, 2024 from Think Again
Young children (up to age 7) are discovery learners. In evolutionary terms, their task is to explore as many possibilities as they can. They discover foundational principles about how the world works. Discovery learning is done through experimentation, observation, action and imitation. We often call this play. Developmental psychologists talk about young children as scientists, constructing hypotheses and testing them out.
Trust
January 15, 2024 from Brave Writer
Home education is bringing learning to all of life—trusting the process, trusting our families, trusting ourselves. That awful word “trust.” Trust sounds so risky, doesn’t it? Like, how careless would I be to “trust” a process or my family or even myself? I want certainty! I want guarantees!