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Alternative Education Educator Looking For Opportunities

Beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year I am looking for a new challenge.

A bit about myself.

  • I am a UK trained primary school teacher
  • I have taught English, Literature and Psychology up to GCSE (age 16) level; worked at Summerhill School for five years as a Teacher and Houseparent; am a Third Culture Kid; have an MEd in Politics, Development and Democratic Education from University of Cambridge; built a few tree houses; currently teach Grade 4 at the United Nations International School in New York; am a founding member of play:groundNYC; and wrote a chapter for the Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education.

I would like to work with primary/elementary aged children in an alternative setting and am open to combining this with other responsibilities within the school. I am a German citizen, so visa requirements might apply for some countries.

Please get in touch (pklaus13@gmail.com) if you think I might be the right person for your school or project.

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See Replay of School Starters Webinar!

Only once a year we have a free school starters webinar. It was on Thursday, September 8th. You can see it here and even send in a new question which we'll respond to. 

How long have you been talking about starting a new educational alternative? We'd like to help you make that dream a reality!

The 11th AERO Online School Starter Course will begin on September 26th, 2016. That's only 2 weeks away! It will run until January. Enrollment is limited to 25 participants. Up to five people can participate from each site without additional cost.

AERO has helped start more than 100 educational alternatives. You can see a partial list here. Since AERO's mission is the Education Revolution, we try to help people create as many learner-centered alternatives as we can. This course has been the most effective way we have discovered to help people go from their dream and vision to the reality of a new, vibrant educational alternative.

The course is not in real time except for an occasional optional live Skype or Google chat.  The course is on a dedicated website so you can access it from anywhere in the world at your own pace and schedule, responding to each section as we open it and responding to the posts of other students in the course. The site has videos, audio interviews, book excerpts, etc. 

The two instructors are Jerry Mintz, director of AERO, and Chris Mercogliano, author of How to Grow a School and long-time director of Albany Free School.  But the key to the course is the interaction between the students.

You can take the course for up to 3 graduate credits from Antioch University New England. The full course is now $1000 but will rise to $1200 shortly. It is now $1500 if you want graduate credit.

You can get more information about the course or sign up for it here. It has already started to fill up for this year! Inquire if you need payments or scholarship help.

If you have questions you can write to Jerryaero@aol.com

 

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Self Design Graduate Institute Webinars for Fall

SelfDesign Graduate Institute Fall 2016 Faculty Webinars

 

Integral Leadership in Business and Educational Organizations
with Anne Adams
Participants will gain an introduction to integrality through an exploration of their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual intelligences.

Sunday, September 25 at 4PM PDT 
Find out more and register!

Creative Awareness and Creative Healing
with Mali Burgess
Explore creative awareness and creative healing principles and processes that enliven healing potential and honor and support the wisdom of the body.

Sunday, October 2 at 4 PM PDT
Find out more and register!

Prescription for a Healthy Learning Environment
with Peter Berg
Explore principles that can be adapted to make any learning environment healthier.  

Sunday, October 9 at 4 PM PDT
Find out more and register!

How Do You Know?
with Ba Luvmour
Weave together insights from child development, spiritual philosophy, brain research, and anthropology to explore the question 'how do we know?'

Sunday, October 16 at 4 PM PDT
Find out more and register!

Evolutionary Parenting
with David Marshak
Explore how the consciousness that parents bring to their parenting can enhance the evolution of consciousness in their children as their children grow through childhood and adolescence.

Sunday, October 30 at 4 PM PDT
Find out more and register!

The Beauty of Constraints: Leveraging Challenges to Improve Systems
with Zach Oliver
Explore the theoretical framework for understanding systems, the Theory of Constraints, as developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt.

Sunday, November 13 at 4 PM PST
Find out more and register!

 

Education Depends on Integration of Self and World 
with Beth Sutton
Explore the Enki Approach to nurturing the integration within each of us—and between us and our worlds—that leads naturally to a direct experience of spirituality.

Sunday, November 20 at 4 PM PST
Find out more and register!

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Special Sale Of AERO Audio And Videos For E-mail Delivery!!

If you've bought DVDs of the keynotes at AERO conferences in the past you know that the quality has been uneven. But this is the year to get them, as well as the audio of the workshops. We can now send you by e-mail or by thumb drive any or all of the audio or video of the keynotes, and 42 of the audio of the workshops. And if you prefer, we can still send you DVDs of the keynotes and CDs of the workshops. But we're only going to do this for a limited time. It takes some work and as you know, we're already working on the second regional AEROx and the next School Starter Course.

So, we're drastically cutting the price for these videos and audio, but this will probably be the last week you can order them.

One clue that these keynotes and workshops were really great this year is that many of the orders so far were from people who were at the conference, and they should know best. And many of them had already received videos and audios that were made on the spot by Back Country Recording. Of course, some of you not from the Northwest were not able to get to the conference this year, so you should definitely order these while you can.

To give you idea of the quality we've made a short sampler for you here

Also, as a bonus, here's a link to the School Starter's Workshop (the next course will start in September). 

In our last notice, we accidentally left shipping in. that's gone now. Of course, there is no shipping for a video or audio sent by e-mail!

Now the price to download the audio for an individual workshop or keynote is $5, the video for an individual keynote is also $5, the full set of 43 workshops is $49, the video of all of the keynotes is $49, and the entire set of audios of workshops and videos of keynotes is $98. If you want the physical DVDs, they are now $99, just select that option on the drop down menu. The emailed videos and audio could take a couple of hours or more to download, but you'll have them right away instead of by mail in five days. We can also e-mail you individual Mini-Talks for $5 for audio and $5 for video. If you want the physical thumb drive sent to you it is $99 and the thumb drive of the videos is $49, plus postage. If you want the DVD it's a bit more expensive because they are not individual mini talks, you have to tell us which group of mini talks you would like. There are no full sets of audio CDs.

I'm amazed by the quality of this year's videos and audio, as you can see from this sample and the school starters workshop