Here are Some of Our Favorite Resources
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What Believing in the Possibilities Can Do For Learning and Teaching – Thom Markham
A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves – Eleanor Beardsley, NPR
5 Ways To Encourage Kids To Grow Up To Be Innovators – Fast Company
No Books, No Classes, No Problem: These Students Teach Themselves – Joseph Williams
What We Mean When We Talk About Unschooling – LinkedIn.com
The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling – Films For Action
Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose – Bruce Smith, Alpine Valley School
Step by Step: Designing Personalized Learning Experiences For Students – Katrina Schwartz
Behold: the two absolutely worst arguments against homeschooling – The Matt Walsh Blog – Matt Walsh
How to Get Into Harvard – David A. Graham
Why Google Won’t Hire You – Steven Mazie
Schooling the World: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning – Carol Black
A Playful Path – Peter Gray
Bard’s Better Admissions Application – Rebecca Shuman
Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning – Maria Popova
Harnessing Children’s Natural Ways of Learning – Luba Vangelova
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses – Joshua Davis
Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn – Carol Dweck
Survey of Unschoolers – Peter Gray
The Danger of Back to School – Peter Gray
Books
- Punished by Rewards – Alfie Kohn
- Education and the Significance of Life – J. Krishnamurti
- Dumbing Us Down – John Taylor Gatto
- Beyond Discipline – Alfie Kohn
- Weapons of Mass Instruction – John Taylor Gatto
- Free to Learn – Peter Gray
- Summerhill – A.S. Neil
- Democratic Education – Yaachov Hecht
- Home Grown – Ben Hewitt
- Free At Last – Daniel Greenberg
- Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School Grace Llewellyn
- Better than College Blake Boles
- College Without High School Blake Boles
- The Art of Self-Directed Learning Blake Boles
- Don’t Go Back to School Kio Stark
- Drive Dan Pink
- A Whole New Mind Dan Pink
- Flow Mihayli Csikszentmihalyi
- Mindset Carol Dweck
Websites & Blogs
Unschooling Support - Community, support and podcasts
Agile Learning Centers – Great new concept around democratic schools. They help the students set intentions, collaborate, and thrive in their democratic self-directed learning environments
Lively Learning Lab – Offers homeschool and other ala carte classings and offerings in Burlington, KY
Home-school.com – Lots of good information for homeschoolers
Living Joyfully – great site with lots of great content regarding unschooling and how it works on a daily basis
Just Add Light and Stir - Inspiration for unschooling parents
Alternatives to School - Expert contributors and people passionate about self directed learning offering in depth information