The Train Isn’t Leaving the Station; No One is Missing the Boat!
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...
More Characters of North Star!
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...
Does Doing Things Make Us Happy? Or Do Happy People Do Things?
Shawn Achor giving his TED Talk, “The Happy Secret to Better Work” at TEDxBloomington in 2011. Following up on my previous blog about The January Blues, I thought I might share a bit about how we respond at North Star to teens who arrive with low spirits....
Reflection on Jeremy Stuart’s Film, “Self-Taught”
Jeremy Stuart traveled the country looking for teens who did not attend school while growing up and homeschooled in the open-ended manner described as unschooling.