Yesterday was the first of our two planned remote days for the cycle, and the first two of our 14 total planned remote days for the year. We have had, and will have unplanned remote days, as well. For example, we were forced…
read moreCentral 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…
read moreThis 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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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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On Tuesday the weather looked to take a turn for the better, although it was still forecasted to rain through the morning. I anticipated more Learners showing up on day eleven than on day ten, but our numbers decreased. Two Learners chose…
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Another one of the beautiful things about Self-Directed Education is the novelty that comes with living our lives in the world, and having the opportunity to enjoy and explore the opportunities that come our way, or that we create. At Abrome we…
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Week two of our entirely outdoor, pandemic, not-schooling experience is in the books at Abrome! This week the Cell 1 did some exploring. I- and J- found a looooooooong tunnel that opened to a giant reed forest, which I- used to build a house…
read moreAnother rainout thanks to thunderstorms On Wednesday night I sent Abrome families the following message by email: “Currently the forecast tomorrow is all day thunderstorms. I’ll wait until tomorrow morning to make the call but if the forecast then is similar to…
read moreSlightly over one week into the new year, it seems that the two physically separated Abrome operating cells are having quite different experiences. Some of the more recent highlights from the operating cell I am not a part of includes continual investigation…
read moreOn 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:…
read more“Hey can we do somewhere inside today because I don’t wanna sit on wet grass.” That’s the question I saw from a Learner when I checked the Abrome Discord channel in the morning. The first day of the academic year was a…
read moreWhen 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…
read moreBringing students, teachers, and staff together inside classrooms and schoolhouses during a pandemic is tyranny. School was already tyranny for children for all the non-pandemic reasons: forced attendance, age segregation, lack of autonomy, sit down and shut up, forced curriculum, testing, homework,…
read moreIt is not easy to grow a Self-Directed Education (SDE) community. Society does not trust children, and Self-Directed Education is rooted in trust. Most adults believe that children must be told what to learn and when to learn it. Many adults find…
read moreWhat is it exactly that Abrome Facilitators do? Do you teach them anything? These questions are often as accusatory as they are inquisitive. It is difficult to understand what Abrome Facilitators do if you are focused on what they do not do….
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