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Let's start a school! I'm looking for a founding group!!!
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Okay everybody, I am absolutely 100% serious about starting a new school in the Saratoga Springs, NY area. I have been talking to people but my friends aren't really into this kind of thing, I am not sure how to go about finding founding members. If you are at all interested in starting a founding group/teaching, please contact me at elizabeth.witb...@yahoo.com... more »
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Free to Learn
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I just read Peter Gray's new book Free to Learn that often cites Sudbury Valley School. The scholarly and readable book describes and explains play and how trust in it and children enable values of "freedom, personal responsibility, self-initiative, honesty, integrity and concern for others." It is a hopeful and more widely distributed contribution towards... more »
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A Sudbury Valley School in Idaho?
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Hello Everyone, My name is Suzanne Nicholas and I am currently working on a feasibility study for a new Sudbury School in the Idaho Falls area. If anyone knows anybody who lives near or around Idaho Falls, and is interested in working on this exciting endeavor with me, please let me know. Thanks and regards,... more »
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a new web page remodel
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The SVS web page, [link], has gone through a face lift. I hope you
will take a look at it -- and a read of it. Particular attention should be
paid to our brand-spanking-new blog, to the radical changes, of text more
than of look, on our homepage, and to the changes under the "About SVS"... more »
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Facebook
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To all you Facebook users on the discuss-sudbury-model list:
Sudbury Valley School has a new Facebook page under the name "Sudbury
Valley School." Unfortunately, there is an old Facebook page with the same
name. The "old" page is NOT actively managed and apparently the means of
getting it removed is to get more "likes" on the new page than the old page... more »
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March 9 Freedom in Education Conference
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If you are in the Chicago area, please join us for our first ever Freedom in Education Conference ~ Saturday, March 9, 2013, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Join us for a unique one-day conference focusing on principles and practices of non-traditional education at Tallgrass Sudbury School in Riverside, IL.
Featuring: Boston College Professor and Psychology Today blog author, Dr. Peter Gray; philosopher and author, Lou Marinoff; unschooling experts Laura Endres, Colleen Paeff and Abbi Miller, representatives from Sudbury, Montessori and progressive schools, and professors from DePaul, Northeastern IL, Oakland, and Concordia Universities.... more »
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descholling society
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Hi, I'm a graduate student majoring education in Japan. :)
Yesterday, I have read "descholling society" written by Illich in 1971. I wonder he have known the exist of Sudbury Valley School which was founded in 1968.
If so, it's a really amazing and interesting fact, isn't it? Does anybody know of that?... more »
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Perspectives on Natural Learning
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Nature has done an amazing job of giving us the ability to learn. We need to look closely at our natural learning abilities in order to create better school experiences for the next generation of learners. A good way to begin thinking about how we are naturally built for learning is to look at how we learn to walk and talk. We naturally develop these... more »
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Freedom in Education Conference at Tallgrass
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Hi, everyone,
Here in the Chicago area we are planning a one-day conference this March 9 at Tallgrass Sudbury School entitled "Freedom in Education." We wanted to bring Peter Gray to Chicago again this spring, especially since his new book, Free to Learn, will be coming out on March 5. He usually speaks at our local homeschooling conference and at our Sudbury model school each spring, but the conference is not being held this year so I wasn't sure how to best feature a talk by him in the Chicago area. At the same time, I've begun work on my doctorate in education, and discovered that many local professors of education are as dismayed by the dominant factory approach to education as many of us are. I've actually been quite surprised at how positively everyone reacts in my doctoral program when I share about our school with them. Friends and teachers at other local private schools as well as fellow doctoral students have also described to me some of their struggles with the current standardized system. (A fellow doctoral student shared with me that at her Chicago public high school, the students take standardized tests EVERY DAY for their entire high school career!)... more »
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