Change the way you educate your kids
Learning should be fun, but traditional schools make it feel like a chore. We’re here to help you find the best way to educate your kids and set them up to thrive.
Our philosophy
The traditional school system doesn’t work
Traditional schools do a terrible job preparing kids for adulthood. The real world doesn’t revolve around cramming for tests, or memorizing random geographic facts.
Instead, it’s built on creative problem solving, self-direction, ownership, adaptivity, and discipline. It rewards people who can identify a problem and figure out the solution, independent of others – even if no one has ever done it before.
The change in schooling approaches in recent years has proved this. We have lots of successful models to choose from: unschooling, online schools, Montessori schools, microschools, and hybrid schools.
But rather than proclaiming one style of education is superior, we realize that every child is different, and needs a school that adapts to them, rather than the other way around.
We’re here to provide you with the tools to make an informed decision on the best possible education for your kids.
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Transform your kid’s education
Finding the right schooling for your kid
If you want to pull your kid out of traditional school, there are lots of options to choose from.
Microschools and online schools cater to different learning styles and interests, allowing you to choose the best education style for your kid – whether they learn best through discussion,real-world projects, or something else.
Online courses and subject-specific apps give you everything you need to unschool at home.
And there are lots of thinkers and writers creating resources to help you figure out the first steps.
Here are some of our favorite starting points:
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The life of a fourth grader is an alarmingly busy one. The schedules of fourth graders are often inundated with the pressure to pursue task after task, activity after activity, in our fervent attempt to ensure they taste the fullness of life. They ping-pong from classroom lectures to soccer practice to guitar lessons to French …
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If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate. At the time of the American founding, …
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Public schools are hemorrhaging teachers. And they have been for almost 50 years. Although Covid played a large part in the teacher burnout crisis, the rush of teachers dropping out of the profession is simply the boiling-over point of a crisis that began brewing decades ago. Christopher Morphew, the dean of the Johns Hopkins School …
A public school teacher named Sarah recently opened up to us about the decaying interior of public education. It’s a story of low salaries, high stress, obsession with measures, and lack of putting kids’ needs first. Many teachers are ditching education altogether. Sarah said: “Pretty much everyone I know is leaving education completely because they’re …
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