Teach Your Own

Ever wondered if space is actually infinite? Or what exactly reality is? Our animation series explains big ideas and abstract concepts in just a few minutes.

The youth of America are plagued by shocking financial illiteracy. Most can't balance a checkbook, much less invest wisely. With our apologies to the Wall Street Journal, we present to you a realistic plan for teaching your kids about money matters.

Connecting With Nature is a complete educational guide for grades four to six, filled with fun and interactive activities that get kids outside and exploring issues like biodiversity, where our food comes from and how to conserve energy.

This requires more forethought than directly teaching phonemic awareness but the benefits are great and you won't dampen your child's enthusiasm in the process!

Just ordered this book! It looks at alternative approaches to conventional secondary education to motivate teens through school and, most importantly, nonschool learning experiences. Halpern surveys international horizons as well.

To the extent that we think in isolated, unconnected objective terms, we are thinking 'instrumentally' and we fail to see the interconnected, relational nature of ourselves to society and to nature.

Permaculture is about “meeting human needs while preserving ecosystem health” and it works ‘by emphasizing relationships and consequences, revealing the weaknesses of thinking in terms of isolated events and static objects.”

Powers of 10, Charles and Ray Eames, Los Angeles, California

The Absorbent Mind: Amazon.ca: Maria Montessori, John Chattin-McNichols: Books

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book Of Homeschooling: Amazon.ca: John Holt, Pat Farenga: Books

All over the world, there's a growing consensus that our education systems are broken. These educators offer lessons in how we might re-imagine school.