by Ken Danford | Mar 22, 2021 | self-directed learning
What happens to an unschooler who refuses to wear shoes? (and who attends North Star barefoot in all seasons for several years?) I opened my mailbox yesterday to see Grace Martenson with her industrious smile busy mending shoes as the cover photo of this week’s...
by Ken Danford | Feb 15, 2021 | self-directed learning
Among my favorite activities is welcoming and orienting new people to the field of self-directed education, especially young teachers who are disillusioned by the system they had felt inspired to improve. Now, the moment has arrived to join forces with some others who...
by Ken Danford | Jan 1, 2021 | self-directed learning
Happy 2021! Sometimes we get lucky! Sometimes we make our own luck! North Star is teaming up with The Institute for the Musical Arts and the Shea Theater to bring the world Get Down With Your Hometown, a two-day online musical extravaganza on January 8-9, 2021...
by Ken Danford | Dec 1, 2020 | self-directed learning
I dissent from two current headline-making statements about whether schools should be open during this recent Covid-19 surge in November: Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker: (Concerned that too many students are attempting to learn from home) “We all know that...
by Ken Danford | Nov 19, 2020 | self-directed learning
In case you do not receive North Star’s printed newsletter, Liberated Learners, here is our Fall 2020 edition that just came out. You can meet current member Sam Kleinman-Eddy, and hear both his and his mother Sara’s description of how his switch from conventional...
by Ken Danford | Nov 1, 2020 | self-directed learning
Featured photo: North Star Alum Jonah Ferdman-Hayden (on right) installing solar panels on the North Star building. Two of my current projects, alumni research and North Star building improvements, collided this week in the form of Jonah Ferdman-Hayden. When the...
