Going Global: Liberated Learners in The Philippines

Ken Danford with 3 teens during visit to The Philippines

Abot Tala is seeking to become the first Liberated Learners center outside of North America. I have just returned from spending ten days with their team, meeting everyone involved with the project and learning about Manila and The Philippines.

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.

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.

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.