adventuresinlearning:

Some already mentioned

• Lisa Delpit
• Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
• bell hooks
• Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
• Maricela Oliva
• Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot
• Maya Angelou
• Vandana Shiva
• Stacyann Chin
• Suheir Hammad
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Sheryl WuDunn
• Leymah Gbowee

adventuresinlearning:

howtodropoutofschool:

Check out this visual exploring the benefits of self-education. Is self-education the new masters? Are we beginning to place less value on college degrees?

Check it out: Click Here

I been thinking a lot about this lately. Going to Goddard College which is a pretty good hybrid has been great. I have been able to see the pro’s and Con’s of self education. I think their is a third way, and I have made it part of my goal in life to help make it reality. Right now I calling it Passion/Project based Living and Learning. I think we need a the minimum structure and tools to give a healthy balance between Self and Social learning. I do think that “School” should be place were the learning together is more useful, fun, engaging, than learning alone. I don’t think all schools can claim this yet. I also don’t like the individualism (in contrast to Personalism) that both schools and some unschoolers champion. ME ME ME society is not what I am after. I think there is a balance between both communal and personal goals that I envision being met by my vision of education, which I right now am calling Human Centered Education.

What are your thoughts? Do you think School can evolve beyond what is today? Do you think Self learning is step in the right direction? Do you like school the way it is? What is the first thing you would get rid of today in schools? What is the first thing you would add?

-Human Centered Education/Adventures in Learning

Smart by Nature™, the Center’s framework and services for schooling for sustainability, is based on two decades of work with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries.

The Center is best known for its pioneering work with school gardens, school lunches, and integrating ecological principles and sustainability into school curricula. 

The Center for Ecoliteracy offers books; teaching guides; professional development seminars; a sustainability leadership academy; keynote presentations; and consulting services. Among its books for educators, parents, and other people interested in sustainability are:

• Smart by Nature: Schooling for Sustainability (foreword by Daniel Goleman);
• Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (foreword by David W. Orr);
• Big Ideas: Linking Food, Culture, Health, and the Environment (foreword by Michael Pollan).

The Center’s work has been praised by numerous organizations, including the National Science Teachers Association, National Wildlife Federation, North American Association for Environmental Education, and Participant Media, producers of the Academy Award nominee Food, Inc. Others who have endorsed its work include Daniel Goleman, Richard Heinberg, David W. Orr, Michael Pollan, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, and Alice Waters.

The Center for Ecoliteracy was cofounded by Fritjof Capra, physicist and systems thinker; Peter Buckley, former CEO of Esprit International and environmental philanthropist; and Zenobia Barlow, now its executive director. It is located in the award-winning David Brower Center, a home for environmental and social action in Berkeley, California.

The Center’s website offers hundreds of downloadable resource materials, including practical guides, essays by leading writers and experts, and inspiring stories of school communities and organizations across the country that are engaged in this vital work.

tomesawayfromhome:

By the time they graduate at the end of the 2012-2013 school year, I’ll have been with the IB seniors for three years. It’s the most time I’ve spent with any group of kids ever, and I love them.

I couldn’t have asked for a better group of kids to work with for so long, they’re more engaged and…

lifewith5:

Unschooling Summit with free audio.
There is also a Conscious Parenting Summit that looks at other parenting ideals outside the mainstream.

(via The Learning Community School - About TLC)

thelearninglife:

An early morning visit to the kindergarten on Friday was a chance for a guided tour of the farm. It’s a magnificent project now complete - a capstone to a year of exploration, research, discovery and creation. And the children are proud to show their work and point out their individual…

(via Passageworks | Social Emotional Learning)

The mission of the PassageWorks Institute is to support educators with practices and principles that integrate social, emotional and academic learning and create meaningful and rigorous relationship-based classrooms.

The vision of the PassageWorks Institute is of an education system in which all young people are supported to develop compassion, character, academic excellence, and a sense of deep connection to themselves and the world around them.

PassageWorks practices and principles support the inner lives of teachers and students.  By “inner life” we refer to that essential aspect of human nature that yearns for deep connection, grapples with difficult questions about meaning, and seeks a sense of purpose and genuine self-expression.

TEDxReggioEmilia - Vea Vecchi - Reggio Children, o dei 99 linguaggi da restituire ai bambini (by TEDxTalks)

robertrauschenberg:

From the Lab School of Washington, photo by Janet Stein.

On our Facebook page we just uploaded a bunch of new images from this year’s ”Power of Art” Workshop, one of our Legacy Grantees.

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has a number of Legacy Grantees, each fundamental to defining the range of Rauschenberg’s philanthropic efforts. Examples include the founding and on-going support of Change, Inc., which issues emergency grants to artists in need, to a near 20-year commitment to Washington D.C.’s The Lab School of Washington, integrating art into education for students with learning disabilities and special needs. 

We continue our commitment to these organizations with appropriate measures and hope to ensure their strategic growth and recognition. As the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation grows we seek diversification in our geographic commitments while still focusing on the core concepts and “direct to need” focus of these legacy grantees. 

adventuresinlearning:

I want to highlight some female education voices….

Here is my list so far

• Montessori
• Deb Meier
• Vivian Gussin Paley
• Francis Parker
• Jill Ostrow
• Maxine Greene
• Eleanor Ruth Duckworth
• Adora Svitak
• Lisa Delpit
• Linda Darling-Hammond

Names offered by some of my followers

• Sue Palmer
• Caroline Pratt (founder of City and Country School)
• Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings
•  

I just discovered this whole field called “DESIGN THINKING.” It’s a process for designing practical and creative resolutions for an end action/product/program that brings about improvement for a group of people. What I like about this process is that it defines itself against ANALYTICAL…

theneighbourhoodsuperhero:

The Reggio Emilia approach is a constructivist approach to Early Childhood and Primary Education.

The physical component revolves around the idea that the environment is the child’s third teacher. The approach uses:

• indoor plants
• mirrors
• natural light
• open spaces (connecting to each other)
• (some other stuff I can’t remember atm… I think organised storage was one too)

Yeah… it’s awesome.

thinkbrit:

Today, I was a part of something amazing at my school. I am the happiest, proudest teacher you could imagine tonight. My students (every single one of them) spoke eloquently and thoughtfully about their learning and growth to panels of adults this afternoon.

In the expeditionary learning model,…