What can we do together?

LL 2018 summer conference

“What can we do together?” emerged as the theme of our recent Liberated Learners Conference at North Star in Massachusetts.

A Cycle of Unlocking Opportunities

Two loaves of bread, donut-shaped, decorated in purple, yellow and green icing and sprinkles

Seth Godin writes at times about education as a system, that it’s more about “stealing dreams” than offering opportunities to learn and master new skills.

A Clip from New Self-Taught Documentary

Self-Taught is a film about adults who homeschooled reflecting on how this approach has impacted their lives, careers, and general attitudes.

Teacher Liberation

Crop of the cover of the book, The Teacher Liberation Handbook, showing birds exploding from a row of desk chairs

Check out my recent TEDx talk, Teacher Liberation. The primary focus was reaching educators who love working with young people, but are frustrated by the traditional education systems.

BigFish to Open in January 2018

In a collaborative effort, including former students and brand new members of BigFish Learning Community, we now have our first promo video!

The Secret Club

Up until recently I didn’t even know that learning could be fun because it was always a set curriculum that you HAD to do. Now that I’m at Embark I have realized that learning can be different.

Does This Count…

… is a question I hear frequently – the last time being  1 pm Friday afternoon, from a Deep Root Center teen at the end of our mentoring session.

The Mentoring Effect

A mentor working with a teen member

Mentoring is without a doubt the part of the “PLC magic” that we most value. It’s more important than just about everything.

Inspired, Sobered

One of the pleasures of this past week has been organizing my notes from my first Liberated Learners conference, after a weekend spent reveling in hundreds of micro and macro “aha” moments.