Interest-Led Learning for Teenagers: An Interview with Me!

Some of the questions you asked were geared towards me rather than my teens so I thought I'd interview myself using those questions as a basis! Describe how your school has changed over the past few years? Well, a few years ago we started experimenting with unschooling.  Unschooling had always appealed, but attached to the…

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Implementing Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum in our Homeschool Part 2

Yesterday I shared some of the ideas the family had about increasing the community service the older ones do, thoughts about team projects they could do together and with friends, in addition to everyone's thoughts on running their own pet sitting business.  We are using Gatto's Guerrilla Curriculum as inspiration for next year's schooling.  Just…

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Implementing Gatto’s Guerrilla Curriculum in our Homeschool

Yesterday I shared with you a quote which had inspired me a little and when I read it out to the family, they were likewise pretty excited.  Here are the main points of Gatto's guerrilla curriculum.  Gatto believes in every child’s learning experience there should be: Substantial community service Apprenticeships Parent Partnerships on school time…

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