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Carl Rust, Education Facilitator, Woodlawn Nature Center. carlrust57@gmail.com

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Classroom teacher student trying to understand education in a different way.

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Marsha D. Shack
creativesdawneducation@gmail.com

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No matter how your family is doing education during COVID - at home, virtually, or in the school building itself - it's time to get creative. Things are strange, and many of the everyday aspects of life before COVID are just not available. So let's face that fact. Let's avoid the temptation to try to make kids do 'school as usual' in this COVID moment, when the world is anything but usual. Instead, let's use this as an opportunity to create 'schooling' that works for kids.
So how do we start? We can start by making school less like, well, school.
COVID gives us an opportunity to put our educational focus where it should be:

Prioritizing wellness and healthy relationships

Nurturing the inherent love of learning

Encouraging students to be responsible for their education

Using the tools already in place at schools in new and creative ways

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Unschooling School is a resource centre and support group for parents, students, and educators, providing the tools and encouragement they need to concentrate on these four principals. By working together now, we can also ensure that these areas remain the priority, in all forms of school, even when we transition to post-COVID life.
In all likelihood COVID has you more involved in your child's schooling than ever before. This has many families feeling frustrated and confused. But in fact, being more involved in your child's schooling could turn out to be a really good thing! The following sections have been put together to give you the information you need to feel confident about how to best support your child, and help you to realize that you have more power and more options than you might think.

Click on your schooling type for information and ideas. ​

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No matter how your family is doing education during COVID - at home, virtually, or in the school building itself - it's time to get creative. Things are strange, and many of the everyday aspects of life before COVID are just not available. So let's face that fact.

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annie.leblanc@ocdsb.ca

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We are in the process of setting up the first democratic school in Sri Lanka. We have some challenges, and need some inspiration.

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The Spring Academy has been operating as an annual 5 day temporary educational structure and weekend activities in Corfu for the last 3 years. In 2020 it is evolving into a prototype stable educational structure and it is creating an online Spring Academy.

The Spring Academy is based on our innate and natural tendency towards joy and health; it is acknowledged that the mind inhabits the body, the entire body, beyond the organ of the brain.

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Spring Academy, Greece - Intergenerational and Interdisciplinary Learning Community

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The Spring Academy has been operating as an annual 5 day temporary educational structure and weekend activities in Corfu for the last 3 years. In 2020 it is evolving into a prototype stable educational structure and it is creating an online Spring Academy.

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Grace - I am a student who recently graduated from public school (I was unschooled prior and did a mix of unschooling and public school throughout high school). Now I am trying to figure out what I could do with my life :) I am always interested in any advice people are willing to share.
graceawp@gmail.com

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Liz Campbell. Alternative education, democratic education, values based education teacher educator.

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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways to begin to liberate ourselves and others. ~bell hooks

I choose love for liberation.
I have witnessed the transformative power of values-based, self-study, action research, also known as Living Theory, to provide a way forward that will help to revolutionize our current understanding of what counts as learning and education. I am honoured to work with others who are committed to collaborative, creative, critical change that provides an opportunity for the flourishing of humanity.

If we want to challenge status-quo thinking, we need to change how we educate our children. Subjecting them to competitive environments and authoritarian rule for twelve of their most formative years is not the way to cultivate democratic behaviours and habits. Education founded on love for everyone and everything will change our culture and create an environment where everyone and everything can flourish. Let's get started.
My definition of love:
Love is the willingness to embrace and act on the idea that everyone and everything is interconnected.

What is your definition of love?
My core values:
love, hope, and joy

What are your core values?
Some thoughts on values: The current state of education
Below is a sampling of views on the current state of education and what we can do to make it better.
Short Videos Documentaries Articles
Web site under construction. We will launch live very soon (end of June)! Thanks for visiting and please return.

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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward freedom, to act in ways to begin to liberate ourselves and others. ~bell hooks I choose love for liberation.

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Ottawa, אונטריו, קנדה

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Ottawa, אונטריו, קנדה

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Ottawa, אונטריו, קנדה

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The child friendly day