Since the 1800s, visionaries like John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and their contemporaries have advocated for a new form of education; an education where every student has a custom-built curriculum that fits their interests and abilities. In this model, which has been broadly called “progressive education”, the teacher’s job is to Read more…
If you found yourself in a conversation about curriculum, you would likely hear the terms “scope” and “sequence”. Scope describes the amount of content covered in a unit of time. Sequence describes the logical order the teacher will introduce the content. In other words, the scope is US History; the Read more…
Most regular online schools are not engaging experiences. The virtual learning options that school offer during the COVID-19 pandemic are not much better. They’re recorded lectures, a series of multiple choice quizzes, or YouTube videos to watch. Students and teachers feel disconnected from one another, and when engagement is low, Read more…
Project-based learning is hard. Often times, we fall in love with the research and stories of PBL but find it incredibly hard to effectively implement in our student’s life. This is especially true if our students are interested in something less traditionally academic like horses. But from our experience working Read more…
Often, well-intentioned adults bombard our kids with advice like “Find your passion and you’ll never work a day in your life”. But, how does a student actually find their passion? Most adults haven’t even figured this out! In a traditional school, most students aren’t really given the freedom to work Read more…
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