Reschooling Posts // September 4-10, 2022
Blake Boles on Adventure
September 10, 2022 from Off Trail Learning
Guest host Zen Zenith returns to interview Blake about his obsession with adventure. What exactly makes an adventure? How is adventure connected to self-directed learning? Is adventure just for privileged people? Why can’t Blake just settle down and lead a normal life? How do Unschool Adventures trips create a sense of adventure for both teens and trip leaders? Does adventure become harder as one grows older? Does Blake even have a retirement plan?! And what comes next?
1.35 the path invents you with Alexis Deighton MacIntyre
September 10, 2022 from The Unschool Files
in episode 35 i spoke with an unschooler (from the 90’s) turned cognitive neuroscientist, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre. we discussed her childhood in Canada- a bit about her family life, reasons for not attending conventional school and her path to higher education!
Embracing Gaming: An Unschooling Challenge
September 10, 2022 from Stories from an Unschooling Family
What do we do if our kids want to play games for hours, and we’re not happy about that? We could limit their screen time. Make some rules about when and what and where children can play games. We could try ignoring our worries, remind ourselves of the benefits of gaming, and then let our kids get on with it (until our doubts overwhelm us once again).
Mom Proposes a Freaky Friday, Role-Switching Experiment to Her 3 Kids: Here’s What Happened!
September 9, 2022 from Free Range Kids
A mom in Ireland, Trish Frazer, was, it seems, a little fed up with the day-to-day pushing/prodding/cooking/plodding that is modern-day parenthood. So she proposed to her kids, ages 12, 9 and 4, that they switch places, a la Freaky Friday. (But without Lindsay Lohan.)
Unschooling Swimming and the San Francisco Bay
September 8, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
Daize, the 11 year-old, swam from the beach to the end of a pier in the San Francisco Bay today! She can now officially swim in the ocean, and since she was not the one kid that got to take swimming lessons pre-pandemic, that also means that she can officially swim at all! The whole swimming thing has been a very incremental, very unschooling sort of process. Before the pandemic struck, we were able to cycle one kid through swimming class, the now nine year-old Mota.
Brightworks School in San Francisco is Hiring World Class Educators
September 8, 2022 from AERO
Brightworks is a school that says, “Yes!” You want to send a GoPro to the stratosphere in a weather balloon? Let’s do it! You want to build a sail car and go on a journey down an abandoned railway? Sure thing! You want to make a
documentary about housing issues in the city? Alright, let’s figure it out together! We trust that children are instinctual learners, and we value partnering with them on their educational path. That is why we call our teachers “Collaborators”.
Part-Time Staff Position at Bucks Learning Cooperative 2022-2023
September 8, 2022 from AERO
Bucks Learning Cooperative is on a mission to make Self-Directed Education for teens a viable alternative to school and create a financially sustainable model that can be replicated by others throughout the world. We are looking for a person to join our staff who has entrepreneurial zeal for the mission and views this work as more than just a job. BLC staff are responsible for making deep mentoring connections with teens and their families, leading classes, and taking charge of various administrative roles.
Advice from Grown Unschoolers, Episode 207 Flashback
September 9, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
It's compilation time again! This week on the podcast, I'm sharing one of our listener favorites from 2019, a collection of conversations with grown unschoolers in which they offer their thoughts for newer unschooling parents. I’ve woven together answers from eleven episodes featuring twelve grown unschoolers. I think you'll find their answers helpful and enlightening wherever you are on your unschooling journey!
Why We Need To Get Rid of The Math Worksheets and Use Problem Solving and Board Games Instead ~Gord Hamilton
September 8, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
Math. What feelings does that word bring up for you? Are they warm and fuzzy? Does it put a big smile on your face remembering all of the fun math lessons, problems and homework that you did? Or does the word MATH bring about feelings of anxiety? Worry? Fear?
Giving Our Kids Time to Discover Who They Are
September 8, 2022 from Stories from an Unschooling Family
Did you go to school? Were your teenage years crammed full of lessons, homework and preparation for exams? Perhaps, like me, you had very little free time for yourself. And when you did have a few quiet hours, were you encouraged to do something useful with them rather than rest or think or dream or chat?
Apple Pies: Unschooling and Independent Kids
September 7, 2022 from Copasetic Flow
Daize and Tawnse made apple pie! It was delicious! But wait! When they started, they didn’t have flour or sugar. Did they come to me to ask if they had the requisite materials, and could I get them? Nope. The first I caught any wind of this pie business at all was this morning when Tawnse appeared in the doorway to ask where one might find shortening. I replied that rather than looking for shortening one should simply use butter. As she walked away, I heard Tawnse holler to Daise—across the house—”Daize! Can you use butter?”
This Time Next Year: Where Will You Be?
September 4, 2022 from Stories from an Unschooling Family
Do you ever play the game, ‘this time last year…’? What about ‘this time next year…’? How does it feel looking back? What do you hope for the future? Several days ago, my very thoughtful phone made me a video using some of the many photos in my camera roll. It titled it: This Day 2018.
