We’re Hiring! We’re growing like crazy these days and we’re ready for another facilitator to join us! Spread the word that we are looking for an awesome human who is interested in self-directed education and helping us create an intentional culture with project management tools for our mixed-age kids. Here are the details: Free to Learn was founded upon the following principles: Children are people; Learning is natural and cannot be measured; Education is most…
What a perfect time for love week to come around. We’re falling into such a sweet rhythm in our daily groove, adding an extra dose of love into the mix this week was so very special. We have worked hard as facilitators to focus our energies into the relationship we share with each child, building a strong foundation of trust and security within our community. This week gave us the opportunity to magnify the relationships…
Practice It’s Not Just for Beginners No one would ever expect a world-class athlete to take his mark on the track every competition without having put in hour after hour, day after day, week after week, and year after year of intense… practice. There is something about being an adult though, that makes us all feel that we have to have already “gotten it.” We feel this unseen pressure coming from both outside and inside…
After so many moons of preparing (and indeed at times, “working” to create this Learning Community), we finally enjoyed the daily privilege of playing with the children we’ve been “working” so diligently to serve. Our first week was a playful dance of success. We began this dance with the intent to serve children, and the dance this week proved that we have done it. We served them. Their hearts practiced the dance. Practiced the dance…
