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Looking forward to the second cycle of AY20-21

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I woke up at 4:40 a.m., excited to get this second cycle of our outdoor, pandemic year going. I slowly gathered myself and then headed out for a nice 2.3 mile run in the very pleasant, cool, October morning air. The moon…

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Day 14 of AY20-21: can outdoor learning work for adolescents?

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Central to our vision of what makes Self-Directed Education work for young people (and one of the reasons conventional schooling does not) is age mixing. We do not segregate Learners by age, and can have Learners as young as four-years-old and as…

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Day 13 of AY20-21: our first cookout day

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This year I’ve been trying to do certain things to take care of myself so that I can better take care of others within the community. One of them is sleeping at least eight hours a night, and going to bed by…

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Day 12 of AY20-21: the social challenges of small operating cells

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Two of the younger Learners in our cell have been joined at the hip since we came back together on September 8th. But starting on Wednesday, one of them was scheduled to be out for the rest of the week. For the…

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Day 7 of AY20-21: when joking around becomes problematic

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My cell was without three Learners on Wednesday. One is still out of state helping his grandparents move, and two were at home resting after being out in the sun all day (with one also going on a fairly strenuous hike) at…

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Day 5 of AY20-21: starting to settle in

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Day five of the academic year was also day one of the second week of the academic year. The first week was all about introducing or reintroducing ourselves to each other, reaffirming our principles and agreements, identifying challenges we had not fully…

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Day 4 of AY20-21: learning as we go

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On Friday we wrapped up our first week outdoors. We are now one week into the first of eleven cycles that will run through mid-July. The week was fun, and had lots of learning experiences embedded in it. Some of the fun:…

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Day 2 of AY20-21: remote learning already?!

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One of the reasons we decided to go outside this academic year was so that we could safely be together during this pandemic. We found that connecting over Discord and Zoom was insufficient to meeting our needs as individuals and as a…

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Day 1 of AY20-21: coming back together

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When we departed for spring break on March 6th, I certainly did not expect that the next time that I’d see the Abrome Learners in-person was going to be on September 8th. But after six months of responding to the unknown, of…

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