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On Playing War
A broken leg is no fun. However, since at SVS almost any new situation can become a window into what is going on in the…
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They Sit in Court
Whenever we have an Open House at Sudbury Valley School we often get the same question, “What do the kids do all day?” Underneath this…
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To Thyself Be True
We were talking about birthdays, Audrey, Ben, Christine and I. All three children had just turned six and their birthday parties were recalled with much…
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“I Want To Be the Age I Am Right Now!”
I realized that one of the kids in school who had been here for many years was about to turn eleven. (How dare she get…
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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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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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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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To Investigate… or Not…
People always say the J.C. is the heart of the school. They’re right. It’s the way our school handles misdeeds or wrong doings on a…
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Sudbury Valley School – An Outside View
As we walked down the driveway to the main building, slightly jet-lagged after the flight from the UK, I thought I knew what to expect….
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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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A Sudbury Valley School Glossary
When talking about the school, we all find others confused about what we believe, and about what we do. As with most confusion, much of…
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Three Elements of Kindness
Sudbury Valley is an incredible place. Literally so, in that many people just don’t believe that any school could be so pleasant and well-functioning. At…
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Pass the Laptop
Conversation is a key component of any culture, of how we develop and test our understanding of the world, and it is vital to working…
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