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So Long, 2011!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

[photo credit: Peter Jukes]
Wow.  New Year’s kind of snuck up on me this year.  We’ve been in a vacation coma of eating junk food and watching movies for over a week now and it just dawned on me yesterday that today is New Year’s Eve.   We don’t have any big plans for the evening.  I [...]

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Be Disruptive, Non-Linear, and Inquisitive

Friday, November 5, 2010

Be disruptive, non-linear, and inquisitive.
Create and imagine a solution
to an impossible problem.
Expose connections where
others see obstacles.
Be prepared to walk into the dark.
Shape the future.

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The headmaster at my high school Alma mater send that out this week.
I love it.

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Waiting For Superman: The Documentary

Sunday, October 24, 2010

This is a must see documentary.
‘Waiting For Superman’ attempts to tackle the problem of public schools in America and explain at least some of the reasons why the overall public school system is generally a failure today.
It looks at how the public school model is outdated, why drop out rates are so high, why even [...]

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The Boys Of Baraka

Thursday, April 29, 2010

One of the things I love about homeschooling is the time and freedom it gives us to do and learn things that we may not do otherwise.   This is particularly true in our case with Rye because he only has a smallish window of time in the day when he is open to learning [...]

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The World Is A Classroom

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

I was watching “19 Kids and Counting” tonight and Michelle Duggar said this about her kids and homeschooling, the world is a classroom.   I thought it was great.   Because it’s so true.  And I wonder, is “out-of-school schooling” better for some kids that “in-school schooling”?  Could be.  And I may have one of those kids.
Now, [...]

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