WATCH: Sir Ken Robinson’s New Talk

Building a Culture of Innovation Sir Ken Robinson delivers a brand new, insightful and entertaining talk to educators at the 9th Annual AERO Conference, “Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution.” Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, near New York City! Find out more here.   “Education doesn’t need to be reformed [...]

Join AERO at IDEC 2013, August 4-8 in Boulder, Colorado

IDEC 2013 is a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around transforming communities, schools and learning. The experience will include a rich blend of scheduled events and the fluidity needed to host conversations, workshops and strategy sessions using a hybrid of Open Space Technology. If you’re connected to AERO and educational [...]

A Year at Mission Hill (Video)

What goes into creating a powerful learning environment for children and adults? Meet the teachers, families and children of Mission Hill as they experience the highs and lows of a year of self-discovery, exploration, and frustration. And join us for a national conversation about the state of public education as it is – and as [...]

Teaching that Promotes the “I Get it”

Why do we remember some lessons and forget others? Is it that some are perceived as more important, exciting, or possibly just easier to comprehend? Perhaps the answer has elements of all of those in its makeup; however I would suggest it is through true understanding. That is understanding rather than memorization.  This is the [...]

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The Woolman Semester School in Nevada City, CA is hiring teachers!

About Woolman Woolman is a nonprofit educational community located on 230 acres in the Sierra Nevada Foothills dedicated to the principles of peace, justice and sustainability. Originally founded in 1963 as a Quaker high school, Woolman now offers educational programs for teens, retreats for adults, and summer camps for children and families including The Woolman [...]

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WATCH: Sir Ken Robinson’s New Talk

Building a Culture of Innovation Sir Ken Robinson delivers a brand new, insightful and entertaining talk to educators at the 9th Annual AERO Conference, “Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution.” Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, near New York City! Find out more here.   “Education doesn’t need to be reformed [...]

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Join AERO at IDEC 2013, August 4-8 in Boulder, Colorado

IDEC 2013 is a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around transforming communities, schools and learning. The experience will include a rich blend of scheduled events and the fluidity needed to host conversations, workshops and strategy sessions using a hybrid of Open Space Technology. If you’re connected to AERO and educational [...]

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A Year at Mission Hill (Video)

What goes into creating a powerful learning environment for children and adults? Meet the teachers, families and children of Mission Hill as they experience the highs and lows of a year of self-discovery, exploration, and frustration. And join us for a national conversation about the state of public education as it is – and as [...]

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What Works! – The 10th Annual AERO Conference

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Come to the 10th annual AERO Conference: May 23-26, at LIU/Post, near New York City! We feel that this is the time for the education revolution, to empower all students, to make learner-centered education possible everywhere. This year’s theme is “What works!” This means that we want keynotes and presentations that explore and demonstrate effective [...]

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The Delta Program (Job Opportunity)

The Delta Program is a democratic school of choice available to students in grades 7-12 who enrolled in State College Area School District. Located in the historic Fairmount Avenue building in the heart of downtown State College, The Delta Program is in easy walking distance of the High School, Penn State University and downtown shops [...]

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Progressive Public Charter High School Seeks Social Studies Teacher

City Neighbors High School is a progressive, arts-integrated, project-based public charter school with a diverse community in northeast Baltimore city.  We are seeking a full-time Social Studies teacher for the 2013-14 school year who is creative, dynamic, passionate, innovative, and possesses a pioneering spirit.  Visit www.cityneighborshighschool.org  for more information about our school. BCPS pay scale. Please send resume and [...]

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Queens Paideia School (Two Job Opportunities)

Math Teacher   Queens Paideia School, an independent K-12 school, located in Long Island City, NY, seeks an accomplished math teacher to augment our present staff.   The school’s pioneering individualized approach and 6:1 student-teacher ratio is made possible by a small team of teachers helping students achieve personalized learning objectives, often via projects and [...]

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Job Opportunity

Located in northeast Baltimore city, City Neighbors is an arts-integrated, project-based, Reggio Emilia inspired, inclusion school built on a strong foundation of teacher empowerment, parent-school partnership, and a small school model (216 students at maximum). City Neighbors strives to be a model of progressive, urban education, dedicated to project based learning, arts integration, relationships, and [...]

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Pacem School Job Announcement

Pacem School is seeking part-time faculty in the following subject areas: Middle and high school Spanish and French Middle school writing and literature Middle or high school math Middle school science High school social studies Pacem School is an intellectually inspiring, joyful learning community for 10 – 18 year olds focused on peace, arts, community, environment, [...]

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Certified Middle School Teacher

We are looking for a certified middle school teacher to join our team of committed teachers. The applicant must be a native English speaker who has a great love for Math and academics. The position includes teaching Math , History, Science and English to grades 7,8,9 in a homeschool/ tutoring setting. Classes at Cuixmala School [...]

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Teaching Staff Opening at PSCS in Seattle!

Puget Sound Community School (PSCS), an innovative, approved private middle & high school in Seattle, has an open teaching staff position for the upcoming school year, 2013/2014, and likely beyond. The person hired will work mainly within our middle school program although opportunities to facilitate activities for high school students will also take place. This [...]

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Looking for French Speaking Pre School and Elementary Teachers in New York Area

Science, Language, and Arts International School, in Brooklyn NY, is a French immersion school for grades pre K through 3. We are looking for enthusiastic, progressive minded French speaking teachers with experience and interest in, hands on, project based learning for children ages 3 to 9. Teachers will be thoroughly trained through out the school [...]

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Teaching position in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge

GORGE DISCOVERY SCHOOL Where the Gorge is our classroom Hood River, OR www.gorgediscoveryschool.com   The Gorge Discovery School is looking for an experienced and energetic multi-age classroom teacher for the 2013-14 school year. Qualifications include an undergraduate degree in education or subject area (advanced degree preferred), previous classroom experience and a genuine passion for how [...]

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French Speaking Preschool and Elementary Teachers

Science, Language, and Arts International School, in Brooklyn NY, is looking for enthusiastic progressive minded French speaking teachers. We are a French language immersion school with a deep commitment to collaborative teaching and stress free learning. We are looking for French speaking individuals with experience and interest in progressive, hands on, project based learning for [...]

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Position for a dynamic elementary teacher

A small, alternative school outside Portland, OR is seeking a dynamic teacher for their 3rd/4th grade classroom. The Living Wisdom School is a small, spiritual school using a holistic education model, Education for Life. Class size is no more than twelve with opportunities for freedom and creativity in creating curriculum. We have an urban campus [...]

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Trying to Have our Cake & Eat it too (Part 1 of 7)

TRYING TO HAVE OUR CAKE & EAT IT TOO: WHY COMPULSORY SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IS ANTITHETICAL TO EDUCATION; HOW ARBITRARY AUTHORITY AFFECTS [...]

Explaining the Extraordinary, Part One: Cultivating the Potential of the Child

What is Montessori? How is Montessori different than traditional education? Anyone who has ever had a child in a Montessori [...]

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 3 of 3)

The author B. Traven captures the essence of false, unsupported freedom in his epic Jungle Novels.  In them, he describes [...]

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 2 of 3)

From the beginning, democracy is premised upon and assumes that freedom is the nature of the beings who take part [...]

Support AERO’s matching grant!

Dear friend of AERO, I hope you are doing well! We are writing to you to express our sincere thanks [...]

The Spirit of Democratic Education (Part 1 of 3)

Democracy is a tool we think about using in education.  But, what is this tool called democracy?  And towards what [...]

Register for AERO’s Fall School Starter’s Course!

At a time when the U.S. education system is failing under the burden of the ill-conceived No Child Left Behind [...]

Order new AERO book by young writer!

AERO is very excited to announce a new book by 17-year-old author Nikhil Goyal. Every nine seconds, a student drops [...]

Democratic table tennis club

I’ve been playing table tennis since I was a kid and I love the sport. Along the way I had [...]

A response to the crisis of our time

In the United States, many people express their political or philosophical opinions by attaching small signs on the back end [...]

Trivial pursuit

There’s a YouTube video going around online right now – maybe you’ve seen it – the one where a bunch [...]

The rights of children in school

In my work as an educational consultant, I have visited many schools all over the world. I have observed, in [...]