5-1 Design A School Optional Lessons
We discuss optional lessons, an essential part of the Democratic Free School engine. Also Reduced Curriculum and Freak Out subjects.
Design A School 4-3: Age Range
The Age Range Train. How many coaches? The most important coach?
Evidence for Openness: 7 ideas
The open classroom is back. I have my doubts about the phenomenon and want to see some evidence for the effectiveness of the trend.
Curriculum Matters
Talking about the Curriculum in democratic free schools.
Keep it in the Family
Family and kinship are a part of our mammal nature. How do they relate to our choices in education? Is it right for the state to work against our primal instincts.
The Reduced Curriculum III: Getting it Wrong and Getting it Right
Here I talk about my own experiences as the English teacher at Summerhill School and what those experiences meant for my evolving awareness of what a reduced curriculum might be.
The Reduced Curriculum II: Against Bloating
The second of three posts on the reduced curriculum. Here we look at the phenomenon of bloating in the curriculum: how to avoid it. Create a better curriculum in a free school.
Reducing the Curriculum
Introduction to the reduced curriculum in Summerhill-style schools.
The Reduced Curriculum
The first in a series of posts about the Reduced Curriculum to help subscribers to Summerhill Democratics think about this important issue in setting up a free school.
Qualities of Teachers- Understanding
The first of a series of posts on the Qualities of Teachers in Democratic Schools. This post deals with qualities of understanding.
