by Ken Danford | Nov 24, 2023 | self-directed learning
North Star still publishes a printed newsletter to share the stories of our members, and this month we are featuring the story of Emile Marti. Emile has been a very active member of North Star over the past few years: hiking, cooking, the Ozzy Klate Memorial Fund...
by Aaron Damon-Rush | Oct 20, 2023 | self-directed learning
Welcome back to our alumni spotlight series! North Star is now in its 28th year, and we have more than 600 alumni who have gone on to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things. This series will be a chance to check in with some of those folks and talk to them about...
by Aaron Damon-Rush | Oct 10, 2023 | self-directed learning
New! Monthly guest blog post from North Star Alumni Coordinator Aaron Damon-Rush. Aaron is checking in with lots of alumni, and is generating updates he would like to post. Aaron and I agree that using this blog is a fine platform to do so! I aim to post twice...
by Ken Danford | Sep 17, 2023 | self-directed learning
Laura Meckler and I were on the Shaker Heights High School debate team together when I was a senior and she was a sophomore. Some forty years later, in just the past month, Laura has published a book about race relations in Shaker Heights called Dream Town, and has...
by Ken Danford | Sep 11, 2023 | self-directed learning
We are on our way! We’ve had our first week of welcomes, preceded by the first-ever “Pizza and Games Night” for new families in late August. For a mature organization, we have a lot of “New” this month. We have approximately 20 new families, including people moving to...
by Ken Danford | Aug 23, 2023 | self-directed learning
We have three new staff members for North Star this fall: Emily Provost, Teresa Jones, and Saleem Mizrachi. We received more than 30 applications for our openings, and we conducted 9 interviews. The process was inspiring: we could clearly staff three full centers with...
