Dear Parents of non-school aged children, Please make a point to remember what your children are like now. All they’ve learned without i...

Sometimes it seems like everyone is laying claim to having the answer to every problem today. Scary germs? Our soap will kill them. Medic...

The simple idea behind anything open-source is “Here. We’ve something we’ve made that we think is good. Take it and use it and change it ...

Confession: Every morning there is a 50/50 chance I will begin looping my belt through my pants in the wrong direction. I’m 40 years old...

I stared at this worksheet. Senior level class. Entrepreneurship. Student being asked to classify needs and wants. This for an 18 year o...

Whenever people defend institutionalized schooling, often they will point to the number of children that are succeeding in school. And t...

“The computers won’t connect to the wi-fi.” Running SOLEs, which are reliant on the Internet, the above sentence is about the worst glitc...

“Wouldn’t I love to see the governor do what I do every day.” “These politicians wouldn’t survive a week of being a teacher.” In my time ...

Okay, so...yeah, sometimes we cross over that edge too. But to see what comes from this style of learning, as I’ve had the opportunity to...

“I cannot believe what I just saw.” --Vin Scully, Major League Baseball Broadcaster I make it a regular point to make that the children a...

“When we are in the midst of chaos, let go of the need to control it.” --Leo Babauta, author, blogger @ Zen Habits It’s good advice. Ser...

The stuff that it turns out I don’t know. Being the Granny in a SOLE can be a humbling experience. Most of the time it is, actually. Y...

Just so you know, many, many millennia from now, any life that is left on Earth will be roasted to a smoldering oblivion by a dying sun. ...

You take your dog for a walk. He spends minutes on end sniffing at one spot with great urgency. We don’t understand why. But there is no ...

The title of this piece refers to what inevitably happens toward the end of a SOLE. At some point the kids just get on a roll, and any i...

“I’m a teacher. I mold young minds.” In fifteen years as a classroom teacher I probably said it 100 times and thought it 1000 times more...

It all started so quietly. The truth is a lot of us weren’t sure it would get started at all. “We had so many signups we were turning pe...

“You have the right to work only, but not for the results of work. Do not let your motivation for action be influenced by reward, and do ...

The thing about the Self-Organized Learning Environment is that children get the opportunity to work together with minimal adult interfer...