Category: books
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On Change, pt 2
Sometimes, teams fail to account for change happening to them even when they have, as Agile Learning Centers do, explicit expectations and systems for responding supportively to changes in their students’ goals, clients’ visions, or the enveloping environment. In theory and practice, the team members embrace change, design for it, and may even be loud…
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E-Book Audio: Section 8 + Reflections Transcript
I went a little off-script recording. So here’s a transcript! All recordings are now up at https://soundcloud.com/sde_dispatches/sets/self-directed-education-and-the-agile-learning-approach-an-introduction Hey, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast exploring facilitation that for the past seven episodes has been exploring chapters of an e-book that I put together on some of the, like, context and history and ideas that are…
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E-Book: audio read-through
When working with students or friends to polish something they’ve written, one of my favorite exercises is reading the piece aloud to them. It helps them hear where they lose the thread of their thoughts, in a way that silently re-reading the piece over and over to themselves might not make obvious. I like that…
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Agile E-Book: Update 3 (of 3)
Just updated my page at https://leanpub.com/selfdirectededucationintro with copies of the e-book that include full references, annotated resource lists, and descriptions or web addresses instead of links! Having just finished the first session on an online seminar series on agile learning with friends from CollectiveUP, I’m thinking back to all the topics I wrote in Update…
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Agile E-Book: Update 2 (of 3)
There’s an updated version of my e-book up at LeanPub! The first version was reformatted and lightly edited content from the online course I made for the Agile Learning Center NYC in 2021. While my writing in the Starter Kit, Annual Reports, and elsewhere is typically focused on facilitation, I made the course for people…
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Agile E-Book: Update 1 (of 3)
Trying to run an independent school on sliding scale tuition through an experience of being the US epicenter of a pandemic was…really something. More trying than the initial transition were the few years that followed, where challenges and changes kept coming long after we had worn down our reserves of funding and energy. More to…
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They’re supposed to play all day…
This is the second recording and transcript from a pair of events I hosted with Dr. Peter Gray in June of 2021. The first recording and transcript, as well as some context and commentary, are in this other post. Where the first event focused on content pointing out that forcing kids into coercive schooling institutions…
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What if they play all day?
In June of 2021, I got to host 2 online events with Dr. Peter Gray where he discussed his newest books. Peter Gray is a research professor of psychology focused on play and education. He advocates offering kids a meaningful role in a supportive community, self-determination, access to relevant tools and resources, and abundant time…
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what would Dr. Peter Gray’s, “What Einstein, Twain, & Forty Eight Others Said About School” sound like sourced from my library?
An exercise published at https://www.self-directed.org/tp/re-directed-attention/ in November of 2019. That version was beautifully staged by the TP editors with pull-quotes and photos of the book covers! As my notes of quotes to add to the next version keep piling, sharing the original here… ——- Marie Ponsot-Rosemary Deen Marie Ponsot-Rosemary Deen, Beat Not the Poor Desk…
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Virtual Storytime
The ALC Network has a #bookchats book club that I’ve been part of since it started a year and a half ago. It’s been awesome: we’ve mostly picked books I love and the people who join the weekly call are folks I’m always glad to have check-in time with. My only previous experiences with book…
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