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Resources
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Parents and School
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Gavin’s Education
An SVS education is just too big for paper, too big for grades, and certainly too big for a poster board of facts and opinions.
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Children Are Like Locs
Children Are Like Locs by Anika Prather The Living Water School, Alexandria, VA This has been the year for me personally, as a mom and as…
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The evil of the “teaching moment”
This is a confession: It took me many, many years to learn how not to pounce and use what are called “teaching moments” at home…
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Will they ever learn to read?
Reading for pleasure and knowledge has always been a meaningful part of my life. So when my three children started SVS at young ages I…
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All Day, Every Day
Our son recently spent two weeks visiting his grandmother in Paris by himself. It was a wonderful adventure that allowed him to explore his independence…
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“Don’t You See I Don’t Have Time for This?”
[reprinted from The School Bull, Informal News about The Clearwater School] Feel in it Even swim in it And music noits Fill my bain This…
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How do SVS students get into college?
It started with the 12-year-old girl down the street who told my daughter she would never get into college. I am sure many of our…
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What does “learning” look like at SVS?
This is a tough question. SVS lacks the more traditional ways of bench marking a child’s progress through school. There are no parent-teacher conferences, no…
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The Rule of Law as Holiday Gift
During this holiday season, my daughter gave each of her SVS friends pillow cases. Using a fabric marker, each pillow case was emblazoned with a…
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Reverence for all Life
Originally appeared in the June Journal of 1992, Volume 21 After so many years of explaining the philosophy of SVS I occasionally get tired. Tired of…
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Learning to be a Parent of a Sudbury Valley Student
It isn’t always easy to take the road less traveled. When my daughter first started attending Sudbury Valley School, she was five-years-old. Parents, friends and…
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Struggling to Engage Parents
(Part 1 in The Living Water School School’s “Transparency” Series) It is late. I have just fed my dogs. Everyone is asleep and like most nights,…
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Being Average is Not Normal
Cori, my oldest daughter and Kali, one of her close friends at SVS, are having a good-humored debate about which one of them reads…
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Parenting an SVS Kid
This was published in our Janury 1998 Journal; a note from Jean and Rick Leif about what their daughter is up to now has been…
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The First Casualty
Children are born with one overriding drive. They seek to grow up and to gain mastery over their own lives. Any child who grows up…
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