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I’ve been playing table tennis since I was a kid and I love the sport. Along the way I had a couple of big breaks in learning the game. One was when the New York State junior champion was a student at Goddard College when I was there. I got to play and practice with [...]

Register now! In line with the conference theme, “Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution,” Sir Ken Robinson will share his thoughts on shifting the paradigm that many education systems still manifest around the world. We look forward to sharing more about his presentation soon. If you haven’t registered yet, you can still get our [...]

In the United States, many people express their political or philosophical opinions by attaching small signs on the back end of their cars, for other drivers to read while stuck in traffic. These “bumper stickers,” as we call them, often attempt to compress an entire worldview into a very brief slogan, so they are usually [...]

There’s a YouTube video going around online right now – maybe you’ve seen it – the one where a bunch of high school students are asked various questions. Here are the questions: What’s the capital of Washington (their home state)? Name one Democratic candidate for President in the 2012 elections. Who is the Vice President? [...]

In my work as an educational consultant, I have visited many schools all over the world. I have observed, in both traditional and alternative schools, that children’s basic rights are often ignored. I believe that all human beings, no matter how old they are, must be granted the right to take care of their bodily [...]

Nice title, isn’t it?  How do you like it as a name for a school?  Makom Ligdol – “a place to grow” in Hebrew – that’s the name of the school where I work.  It is a democratic school, situated in HaKfar HaYarok (the Green Village, in Hebrew). HaKfar HaYarok is an amazing place.  It [...]

What type of learning environment is right for your child? Choosing a school, or choosing to educate your child outside the institution of schooling, is an important decision — and today, with many educational choices available to families, a complicated one. There are significant differences among the diverse teaching and learning approaches that often get [...]

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that it is generally unnecessary to hold to a rigid schedule. In other words, I let my kids sleep until they are no longer tired. Even my own two children have different schedules–the older one wakes up first, almost at the same time every day–the younger one can [...]

The compelling reasons kids need nature were explained factually and forcefully by Richard Louv in Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. In fact, that book inspired major new efforts to reconnect kids with nature including Children & Nature Network, National Wildlife Federation’s Green Hour, and No Child Left Inside. Louv [...]

I was recently asked to write a column for a national education magazine. When the editor told me the theme of the issue was educating children in a world of violence, I immediately thought to myself, “That’s precisely the problem—most children are being educated in a world of violence.” Here I very specifically mean the [...]