Pick your seat at the table — we have two conversations running.
"The child's readiness
for their own life
was not the question
anyone was asking."
Five presentations on honesty, development, and what every child actually needs — from elementary through high school.
Four presentations on conflicting interests, the research case, multi-age pods, and how small districts can lead the way.
If you think people are overstating the complexity of what we ask of children, go take the math test. 52 questions. 20 minutes.
The full Grade 3 English Language Arts test. One question at a time. Timed. The way your child takes it.
About 1 in 3 children are academically oriented and do reasonably well in this system. This is about the other two.
Seven documented harms, their downstream effects, and the terminal outcomes. Interactive.
A public, open-framework effort to redesign how schools introduce children to society. Free materials, no vendor dependence, any district can adopt it.