Tipping Points
August,  2021

From 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.
Mary Chang

Peter Gray Book Launch

Q&As with Peter Gray on his books published by Tipping Points Press.

“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?
Jenni Mahnaz

Rooted

A poem about being uprooted.
Daveed Jacobo

The 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.”
William Gillis
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Voice of the Children

The Great Surfer

A tribute to childhood.
Alexander Khost

They 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.
Crystal Byrd Farmer

Becoming 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.
Naomi Fisher

Deschooling

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.
Francesca Liberatore

Eilish Grammys Make Greenberg Reconsider Unschooling

Sudbury Valley School co-founder apologizes to unschoolers, admits to being Billie Eilish groupie.
April Fuels

Everyday 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.
Jeana Jones

Adventures 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.
Elizabeth Lund

Changing Our Minds

How children can take control of their own learning
Naomi Fisher
Voice of the Children

The Day Tàpies Went Fishing

You can lead a horse to water, but can you make her fish?
Alexander Khost

Change 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.
Mitra Martin

How SDE Intersects with Parenting & Ethnicity

A chat about the difficulties of various ethnic and cultural experiences existing in SDE and unschooling spaces.
Anthony Galloway Jr, Lora Smothers & Mikala Streeter

Grown Unschoolers on Most Common Unschooling Myths – Video Series

A three-part crowdsourced video series of grown unschoolers addressing common myths about unschooling.
Sierra Allen

What 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
Rachel Munzig
Growing Up Unschooled

Flying Squads: Back to the Beginning

The least amount of control I have ever had
Bria Bloom

Higher Education, Re-Imagined

How the pandemic is going to transform higher education
Sifaan Zavahir

From the Archive

Self-Directed Education: Inequitable or Radical?

Many people worry that Self-Directed Education is too risky for children from less privileged households. But is our duty to expose kids to the types of knowledge that confer privilege, or to help them develop their fullest, most meaningful lives?
Haley Tilt

The Real Stuff

Authentic learning happens anytime, anywhere. Children have the natural ability to find real meaning in everyday experiences.
Vicki Rispoli

Rethinking Learning to Read, by Harriet Pattison — A Book Review

Emma Forde of Rethinking Parenting reviews this important book about learning to read outside of schooling
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The first $8,000 of profits from these books will be used as advances to publish the writing of Women of Color. Half of all proceeds there after will also be used as advances for Women of Color authors.

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Biological Foundations for Children’s Self-Directed Education
by Peter Gray

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by Peter Gray

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by Peter Gray

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book cover How Children Acquire “Academic” Skills Without Formal Instruction
by Peter Gray

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