offtraillearning.com
Off-Trail Learning » Why This Site Exists
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Inspiration, community, and resources for self-directed young people. Why This Site Exists. What is Self-Directed Learning? A High School Student. Getting More Out of College. Going Back to School. Gap Years & Travel Programs. Why This Site Exists. Off-Trail Learning is an informational website and podcast for young adults who want to blaze their own trails through life. Here’s a nice illustrated analogy:. Luckily there’s another option: going. Chose and having defined your own version of success. I love...
alternativestoschool.com
Attending College Without Standard K-12 Schooling - Alternatives to School
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Welcome to the World of Self-Directed Learning. The Case Against Forced Schooling. How Forced Schooling Harms Children. Benefits of Self-Directed Learning. Lists of Democratic Schools, Co-ops and Resource Centers. Can’t Find What You Need in Your Community? For Students Who Feel Trapped. A Vision for the Future. Attending College Without Standard K-12 Schooling. There are also colleges that advocate a do-it-yourself approach to education, seeking to enroll students who want to develop their own curricula.
madmimi.com
Teachers Who Don't Cooperate and America's Worst Mom
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From the Desk of Blake Boles - a newsletter for self-directed learners - Lots of great links in today's newsletter. Enjoy! From the Desk of Blake Boles. A newsletter for self-directed learners -. Lots of great links in today's newsletter. Enjoy! An award-winning Virginia teacher says ‘I can no longer cooperate’ with the testing regime. Damning stuff. (Washington Post). Why more techies are unschooling their kids. A Harvard Grad School of Education professor loses faith in schools. In this new video.
blakeboles.com
BlakeBoles.com • Goals
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What I’m Doing Now. Buy Me a Coffee. I created these goals between 2003 and today. Completed goals are in red. A few notes about my goal list:. I only post big, exciting, and slightly intimidating goals not the little stuff. I retroactively add goals that I’ve already completed. I remove goals that become irrelevant to my life. (The list isn’t sacrosanct.). I post my goals publicly because I believe it gives me a better chance of completing them. (Sometimes there are drawbacks. To this approach.). Start ...
howtolivenowhere.com
How to Live Nowhere « About the Author
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What Does It Mean to Live Nowhere? The Light and Dark Sides of Nomadism (Ch. 3). Redefining Home (Ch. 4). Funding a Nomadic Lifestyle (Ch. 5). The Practical Problems of Life on the Road (Ch. 6). Meeting People and Making Friends on the Road (Ch. 7). Keeping Old Friendships Alive (Ch. 8). Nomadic Dating and Long-Term Relationships (Ch. 9). Appendix: What 10 Years of Nomadism Looks Like. Life Advice for Modern Nomads. Hi, I’m Blake. I lead trips for teenagers through my company Unschool Adventures.
unschooladventures.com
About Us | Unschool Adventures
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8211; – Main menu – –. Arequipa, Peru - South America 2011. Unschool Adventures leads long-term international trips & semesters. And US.-based experiential educational programs. For self-directed young adults, ages 14-21. Each of our trips builds the skills, experience, and self-confidence that a young person needs to transition into independent adulthood. Our trips typically enroll unschoolers. Who understand the unschooling ethic and mindset. Many participants have commented that simply living and ...
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Joyful Latin Learning -- Tres Columnae | Just another WordPress.com weblog | Page 2
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Joyful Latin Learning — Tres Columnae. Just another WordPress.com weblog. What Seems Most Real? 8220;What seems most real to you: the label. Or the actual person. 8221; That was one question behind the questions. Some friends of mine and I were talking about in a Google Hangout last night. Why is it, someone asked, that factory-model schools see the “typical” or “average” student, the one they believe they’re designed to serve, as. Than students whose learning needs are different? And the concrete block.
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Our Leaders | Unschool Adventures
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8211; – Main menu – –. Leaders for Upcoming Trips. Blake first adventured abroad at age 14 for a month-long solo homestay in Chile. Since then he has traveled across Europe, India, Nepal, Australasia, and North, Central, and South America. Blake got involved in the world of alternative education in 2003, when half-way through an astrophysics major he read a John Taylor Gatto book. He is the author of. College Without High School. The Art of Self-Directed Learning. An advisor at Not Back to School Camp.
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BlakeBoles.com • About Me
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What I’m Doing Now. Buy Me a Coffee. Author, educator, entrepreneur, world traveler, self-directed learning advocate, trail runner. Click for full-res photo. Blake Boles builds exciting alternatives to traditional school for self-directed young people. He directs the company Unschool Adventures. And is the author of. The Art of Self-Directed Learning. College Without High School. Blake has delivered keynote presentations for homeschooling conferences, started a podcast. Created a social network. In his p...
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BlakeBoles.com • My Books
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What I’m Doing Now. Buy Me a Coffee. The Art of Self-Directed Learning. Tells Peak Press, September 2014 – Website. The Unschool Adventures Guide to Online Travel Fundraising (e-book). Tells Peak Press, December 2012. Tells Peak Press, June 2012 – Website. College Without High School. New Society Publishers, September 2009. Praise for Better Than College. 8220;Before you spend four years in college, devote four hours to hearing what Blake has to say.”. Seth Godin, author of Stop Stealing Dreams. Blake Bo...