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2021-08-05From Farm to Unschooling the Parent
Through regular visits to a friend’s farm with my pre-school age kids, I learn how self-directed learning about parenting profoundly shapes their learning.
2021-07-11Peter Gray Book Launch
Q&As with Peter Gray on his books published by Tipping Points Press.
2021-06-18“Hurry Up” and the Rush Through Childhood
When we hurry our children through their days, are we inadvertently asking them to rush through their childhoods?
2021-06-13Rooted
A poem about being uprooted.
2021-05-19The First Prison
Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children. We are all indoctrinated from birth in ways of “because I said so.”
2021-04-30The Great Surfer
A tribute to childhood.
2021-04-26They Played Their Hand, and We Have to Say, “We’re Not Going Back”
What did the coronavirus crisis teach us about education in the US? That we have all the resources we need when we want them.
2021-04-13Becoming Yourself: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
Self-Directed Education enables us to take very different educational pathways with our children which particularly suits those who do not fit the mainstream mould.
2021-04-05Deschooling
Deschooling is so much more than moving into unschooling: it is our opportunity to give each other time and space to take back our freedom, to foster lost relationships, values and connections, and to reimagine what our own life, our community and society at large could look like.
2021-04-01Eilish Grammys Make Greenberg Reconsider Unschooling
Sudbury Valley School co-founder apologizes to unschoolers, admits to being Billie Eilish groupie.
2021-03-18Everyday Conversations
We do not schedule conversations into neat little blocks of subjects and time. We let curiosity lead us into debates, discussions, and verbal exchange.
2021-03-01Adventures in Trust: Fear vs. Reality
Comparing some of adults’ biggest fears about Self-Directed Education with what it looks like in reality, based on 10 years of working in an SDE school.
2021-02-18Changing Our Minds
How children can take control of their own learning
2021-02-02The Day Tàpies Went Fishing
You can lead a horse to water, but can you make her fish?
2021-02-01Change Your Mindset Toward Learning, Change Your Child’s Future
Understand how language and metaphors structures one’s mindset toward learning and discover some SDE alternatives.
2021-01-27How SDE Intersects with Parenting & Ethnicity
A chat about the difficulties of various ethnic and cultural experiences existing in SDE and unschooling spaces.
2021-01-18Grown Unschoolers on Most Common Unschooling Myths – Video Series
A three-part crowdsourced video series of grown unschoolers addressing common myths about unschooling.
2021-01-04What do White Saviorism and Adultism have in common (besides me)?
Using personal experiences in the Peace Corps and in conventional education systems, this is my attempt at connecting the dots between adultism and white saviorism
2020-12-28Flying Squads: Back to the Beginning
The least amount of control I have ever had
2020-12-17Higher Education, Re-Imagined
How the pandemic is going to transform higher education