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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 INSTITUTIONAL BEHAVIORS & ENVIRONMENTS & WHY THOSE BEHAVIORS HAVEN’T BEEN PROPERLY STUDIED First the Troubling Questions and Controversial Issues for Discussion and Debate: There is one way and one way only to justify a law [...]
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 program has most likely, at some point or another, been asked one or both of these questions. If you have ever tried to explain Montessori education to a friend or family member, then you know [...]
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 conditions in the Chiapas region of Mexico which became the foundation of the First Mexican Revolution in 1910. One character, a moderately well off ox cart driver, is certain of his freedom which proves [...]
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 in it. The process does not accept an ultimate solution, but only the solution arrived upon by free individuals, all judging the truth from their own perspective, and seeking to shape the conditions of their [...]
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 for your support recently and in the past. This has been one of the most exciting years in AERO’s history. You may have seen some of it for yourself: What we already accomplished Redesigned the [...]
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 ends would we take up democracy as a mode of raising our young? The History of humanity is marked by numerous brilliant inventions. These inventions are born as realizations about the world we inhabit, become [...]
