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Resources
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Learning
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“What Grade Are You In?” The Folly of Separating Children by Age
School’s a place for kids to learn. Everybody agrees to that. That’s why they exist. Well, but kids learn all the time; it’s part of…
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Preparing for the “Real World”
One of the criticisms I hear from time to time about Sudbury Valley School is along the lines of, “Well, doing what you want all…
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Writing: One of the “Three R’s”
I was talking to a friend of mine a while ago. He’s a college professor at one of the local universities, and he was talking…
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What? No Curriculum?
Matt: Why no curriculum, if this is a place for people to become educated for life in the 21st century? Actually, have you even updated…
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Children Must Be Allowed to Grow up Empowered
It’s amazing that anybody considers that what’s called “a school” in the traditional meaning of the term has anything to do with preparing children for…
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What Is a Zone of Proximal Development?
I want to talk about something called “the zone of proximal development”, an idea developed by Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky early in the 20th century….
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SVS in the Era of COVID-19
Remote Learning: When Governor Baker announced on April 29th that schools would remain closed in the state of Massachusetts through the end of the school…
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SVS: Empowering Kids to Meet the Real World
It’s amazing that anybody considers that what’s called “a school” in the traditional meaning of the term has anything to do with preparing children for…
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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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“Kids Don’t Learn Anything at SVS”
The over-riding fear that parents express when they approach this model of education is that kids aren’t learning anything. Of course, when confronted, they will…
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What Is “agency”?
On the radio a couple of weeks ago, I heard a man talking about educational reform, and what they consider progress made with young…
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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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Every Traveler Needs Orientation
For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have been debating human knowledge: its nature, limits and origin. On this last point, we still are trying to…
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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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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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The Institute of Contemporary Art
A couple of months ago, one of my good friends told me of an interactive exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art. William Forsythe, a…
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