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Real Learning is Nothing Like School: What Happens When We Finally Let Kids' Brains Learn the Way They Were Designed To
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What If the Fight to Fix School Was Never the Right Fight?
Children do not need to be managed into becoming capable. Here is what happens when they are trusted instead.
Jun 23
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Katy Purviance
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Your Child Was Born Burning to Figure Things Out. School Taught Them to Stop.
Inside Self-Directed Education centers, children learn everything school says it wants for them. The reason why will reframe everything.
May 26
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Katy Purviance
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Why I Built a Page on Our Website to Tell Some Parents We're Not Right for Them
Why I Built a Page on Our Website to Tell Parents We Might Not Be Right for Them
May 19
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Katy Purviance
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What Happens When Children Make the Rules: Self-Governance in a Self-Directed Learning Community
The moment a child realizes his voice actually changes things.
Apr 28
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Katy Purviance
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What Self-Directed Education Looks Like on the Very First Day
Ten kids, a talking rock named Dwayne Johnson, a tiny frog, and a mom who carried a child she had just met. This is what it looks like when learning…
Apr 21
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Katy Purviance
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We Built the School We Always Wanted
Inside Washington’s Only Outdoor Self-Directed Education Center, and Why the Parents Who Visit Sometimes Leave in Tears
Apr 16
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Katy Purviance
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Live with Katy Purviance & Haide Wall Giesbrecht: Unconventional Learning - Unschooling, & More
A conversation between a therapist-turned-homeschool-mom and the founder of Washington State's only outdoor self-directed education center — and it got…
Apr 12
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Katy Purviance
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Haide Wall Giesbrecht
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She Wrote My Name on the Board. I Thought It Was an Honor.
What second-grade detention taught me about why children shut down in school, and how they come back to life when we stop correcting their growth.
Mar 31
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Katy Purviance
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The Missing Ingredient in Education Is So Simple It’s Hiding in Plain Sight: Consent
We teach children about consent everywhere except the one place they spend most of their childhood. Here is what changes when we finally do.
Mar 24
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Katy Purviance
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What Children Become When They Are Truly Free to Learn: The Promise of Self-Directed Education
The children who grow up knowing who they are, and why that changes everything
Feb 26
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Katy Purviance
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ADHD Is Not a Disorder. It Is a Gift That Conventional School Was Never Built to Hold.
The child being corrected, redirected, and sent to the office may be the most naturally gifted leader in the room. Here is the science that says so, and…
Feb 24
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Katy Purviance
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How Classroom Play Dismantles Competition, Shame, and Control in Schools
The one thing conventional schooling removed could heal children, teachers, and our entire culture
Feb 17
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Katy Purviance
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