Category: Education

  • Agile E-Book: Update 3 (of 3)

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    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…

  • Agile E-Book: Update 2 (of 3)

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    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…

  • Agile E-Book: Update 1 (of 3)

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    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…

  • They’re supposed to play all day…

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    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…

  • What if they play all day?

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    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…