by Ken Danford | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Somewhere on Long Island, a 14-year-old boy named Eli is concluding his last day of 9th grade online-school-at-home. He has been successfully resisting doing the assignments he considers meaningless, and the hours in front of the screen have felt like a waste of his...
by Ken Danford | Oct 1, 2020 | self-directed learning
The Glass Is Half-Full When I’m asked how North Star is coming along this fall, I struggle with starting with whether “the glass is half-full” or the “the glass is half-empty.” We have a lot of redeeming and inspiring moments each week, and I think we are making the...
