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Resources
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Learning
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How Schools Deal with Failure: POORLY!! — Give Them an “F”!
If I had to choose one topic to place at the very core of every child’s educational experience, I would have no trouble identifying it:…
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There’s More’n One Way to Skin a Cat
We have a lot to muse about as we struggle to make ourselves comfortable in a world that seems to be mainly for people whose…
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Self-Directed Learning
The phrase “self-directed learning” is used in education circles all over the Internet, and it is often applied to Sudbury Valley. But the term is…
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Should Everyone Learn at the Same Pace?
This question has clearly been answered by our society with a resounding “YES”. It is an accepted notion that all children should learn at the…
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“It’s a Great School, But Not for MY Kid!” “Really?”
As they decide whether or not to send their children here, or as they fret about their children while they are enrolled here, there are…
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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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Sudbury Schools: Unschooling with babysitting?
We often hear people talk about Sudbury schools as “unschooling schools”. Besides the fact that the actual phrase, to me, does not even make sense,…
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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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Doing Nothing
There is a stigma against people who are perceived to be “doing nothing”. The greatest fear that most adults have, vis-a-vis children enrolled in Sudbury Valley,…
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Men at work
Mimsy took the following photograph at school recently: She gave the photo the title “Men at Work”. At first sight, the title seems whimsical, though the…
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Climbing Your Everest, A Conversation
Hanna: People who hear about the school often say: so everybody will just work on what’s easy for them. And my answer to them is:…
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The Art of Doing Nothing
“Where do you work?” “At Sudbury Valley School.” “What do you do?” “Nothing.” Doing nothing at Sudbury Valley requires a great deal of energy and…
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The Educational System Is Falling Apart
Everybody sees that the notion that kids have to go to a building–to a school–and have to be taught stuff in person by a teacher who talks…
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Can You Trust Children To Design Their Own Education?
What is the justification for trying to guide children and tell them what they need to be successful adults? Does anyone have a right to…
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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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