Distance Learning Programs with the Institute for Humane Education
February 9, 2010 at 8:56 am | In AERO, Education Events | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, Humane Education, IHE, Institute for Humane Education, MOGO, Raising a Humane Child
Distance Learning Programs with the Institute for Humane Education
Whether you are a concerned citizen, parent, or educator (or all three), our month-long distance learning courses immerse you in connecting with your deepest values and helping create a humane world. Learn more & register: http://humaneeducation.org/sections/view/distance_learning_programs.
RAISING A HUMANE CHILD
A month-long distance learning course for parents who wish to bring the principles and practices of humane education to their child-rearing and family life.
March 1-26, 2010
October 4-29, 2010
Developed for parents with children of any age, Raising a Humane Child will expand your parenting strategies to help you bring humane education concepts and values to your children and manifest your vision for a better world, starting with your family.
A BETTER WORLD, A MEANINGFUL LIFE
A month-long distance learning course for people who want to put their vision for a better world into practice.
May 3-28, 2010
September 6-October 1, 2010
Learn to tap into your deepest values and help create a peaceful, just, compassionate, sustainable world while cultivating your own inner peace and joy. Through this month-long course, you’ll have the opportunity to assess your life, examine your values, explore new information and do more good for yourself, other people, animals, and the environment.
TEACHING FOR A POSITIVE FUTURE
A month-long distance learning summer institute for educators who want to inspire their students to become leaders and change-makers for a healthy, peaceful, and sustainable world.
July 5-30, 2010
Teaching for a Positive Future is designed to train classroom teachers, community educators and homeschooling parents to effectively teach critical thinking about social justice, environmental ethics, and animal protection, and enhance your students’ understanding that their choices make an impact on themselves, their local community, the fate of other people, other species, and the Earth. The course’s emphasis throughout on building critical thinking skills provides participants with a constructive approach for teaching about complex, controversial issues. You’ll develop new techniques and ideas to revolutionize and revitalize your students’ education and to make your teaching even more rewarding, interesting, and meaningful.
Each course includes:
- a course book
- a booklet of exercises
- links to relevant resources
- access to the Online Commons for engaging with your fellow students and the course advisor(s)
- guidance and feedback from your course advisor(s)
- participation in one or more course salons (conference calls)
- a certificate of completion and/or Continuing Education Credits, if desired
Beehive Design Collective presents “Cross-Pollinating the Grassroots: Collaborative Art as Popular Education”
February 8, 2010 at 9:19 pm | In AERO, AERO Conference, AERO Online Video Series | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, BDC, Beehive Design Collective, Cross-Pollinating the Grassroots
“Cross-Pollinating the Grassroots: Collaborative Art as Popular Education” was presented by the Beehive Design Collective (www.beehivecollective.org) at the 2009 AERO conference. Enjoy free video of the presentation below. To find out about the 2010 AERO conference, visit www.educationrevolution.org/conference.html
Using gigantic portable murals teeming with intricate images of plants and animals, the Bees will facilitate story-sharing about the impacts of globalization & climate change on communities and ecosystems throughout the Americas. As artists and educators who engage with thousands of learners each year, the Bees use illustrations, stories, and an inspiring, interactive, and memorable narrative to promote discussion of pressing issues that affect both people and the environment. Bees will model some techniques for sharing graphics & stories and will encourage lots of participation, questions, feedback, and strategy suggestions from attendees.
SUPER Sunday Sale!
February 7, 2010 at 2:43 pm | In AERO, Education Revolution E-News | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Bookstore, Education Revolution Bookstore
It’s Super Sunday in the United States as the most watched sporting event in the world takes place. We’ve decided to to give everyone something to cheer for (even those non-football fans) by offering up a Super Sunday sale!
Every book in our store is on sale! Some up to 60% off! We’ve decided to offer a special this week (ends next Sunday) on our top five selling books at 25% off!
Turning Points: 27 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories
Jerry Mintz & Carlo Ricci
www.educationrevolution.org/turningpoints.html
The Self-Organizing Revolution: Common Principles of the Educational Alternatives Movement
Ron Miller
www.educationrevolution.org/selforg.html
How to Grow a School: Starting and Sustaining Schools That Work
Chris Mercogliano
www.educationrevolution.org/grow.html
Lives of Passion, School of Hope: How One Public School Ignites a Lifelong Love of Learning
Rick Posner
www.educationrevolution.org/schoolofhope.html
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
www.educationrevolution.org/weapons.html
Visit our store at www.educationrevolution.org/products.html
Don’t forget to check out our clearance titles at www.educationrevolution.org/clearance.html
At the Heart of Democracy: Why it’s a hard idea to teach, and to learn.
February 6, 2010 at 6:31 pm | In AERO, AERO Conference, AERO Online Video Series, Democratic Education | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, Deb Meier, Debbie Meier, Deborah Meier, Meier
Deborah Meier’s 2009 AERO conference keynote talk. Visit www.educationrevolution.org/conference.html to find out more about this year’s conference! Currently, we sell two of Deborah’s books Keeping School and Many Children Left Behind which are available for 50% off! Visit www.educationrevolution.org/clearance.html to find out more.
Keynote Topic:
At the Heart of Democracy: Why it’s a hard idea to teach, and to learn.
Keynote Summary:
Winston Churchill once claimed democracy was absurd, until one considered the alternatives. It’s as hard to teach–and as counter-intuitive–as modern physics. But even more important. And yet we pay it little heed, even in schools that proclaim themselves “democracies.” What it might mean if we put the whole K-12 experience to the test of producing democrats would require a vast change in how we use those precious years.
Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, director, founder, coalition builder, writer, board member and public advocate.
Meier began her teaching career as a kindergarten and Head Start teacher in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City schools, before moving on to be the founder and teacher-director of a network of highly successful public elementary schools in East Harlem. In 1985 she founded Central Park East Secondary School, a New York City public high school in which more than 90% of the entering students went on to college. Serving predominantly low-income African-American and Latino students, the schools Ms. Meier has helped to create are highly regarded exemplars of educational reform.
Meier is currently on the faculty of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education. Her books The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons to America from a Small School in Harlem(1995), Will Standards Save Public Education? (2000), In Schools We Trust (2002),Keeping School, with Ted and Nancy Sizer (2004) and Many Children Left Behind/i> (2004) are all published by Beacon Press.
Upcoming Conferences!
February 5, 2010 at 1:12 pm | In AERO, AERO Conference, Education Events | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, Education Conferences, Education Events
Visit www.educationrevolution.org/conferences.html to see what great education events are coming up!
Should we add an event? E-mail alternativeeducation@gmail.com with the title, dates, location, and website.
Second Annual Education Conference: Teaching and Learning In Community With Children and Adolescents
February 3, 2010 at 12:45 am | In AERO, Democratic Education, Education Events | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, Democratic Education, Education Conferences, Farmingdale Events, Isaac Graves, Karen Giuffre, Lella Gandini, Voyagers' Community School
May 18 – 21, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Lella Gandini
For educators, parents and professionals who work with children.
Voyagers’ Community School
127 Yellowbrook Road
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
Phone: 732-842-1660
Visit http://www.voyagerskids.com/blog/ to download a brochure and find out more information.
AERO’s Isaac Graves will be presenting the following workshop:
Democratic Education: Foundations and Practice
Democratic Education has been given many definitions over time. This workshop gives a concise overview of how democratic education takes place, the various learning environments it takes place in, and what is at the heart of it all. Using first hand examples and experiences, this will be an informative and interactive presentation.
Education Uncensored
February 3, 2010 at 12:30 am | In AERO, AERO Conference, New Resource | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, Education Uncensored, Laurie Block Spigel, Laurie Spigel
Education Uncensored
A Guide for the Aspiring, the Foolhardy, and the Disillusioned
Laurie Block Spigel
This book isn’t just for the frustrated parent, teacher or homeschooler. This book is for everyone. Education Uncensored reveals the truth about education today.
Inside you will find:
*Why the current educational system has it all backwards
*The truth about testing and assessments
*The four levels of teachign
*How to use your environment and take schooling beyond your four walls
*Tips on every subject including history lessons with techniques used by real historians
*Teaching games that really work
Laurie Block Spigel teacher poetry, creative writing, art history, and playwriting to groups of homeschoolers in New York City, and lectures to parents and teachers on innovative ways of educating their children.
Laurie will be a presenter at the 2010 AERO conference.
Venturing Together
February 3, 2010 at 12:28 am | In AERO, AERO Conference, New Resource | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, Bill Rossi, Venturing Together, William Rossi
Venturing Together
William Rossi
Empowering Students to Succeed
In Venturing Together, Bill Rossi makes a compelling case for his groundbreaking educational approach based in creative strengths-based mentoring. His argument aimed at educators, human service providers, parents, and the general public alike is that only a dynamic, positive, and personal approach can ignite students creative spirit, the force that drives learning and personal growth. Working from the bottom up, his approach focuses on the students, develops their strengths and talents, and guides them to follow their intrinsic motivation to find their way through life.
Although Venturing Together focuses on mentoring through the arts, the principles it expounds can be used in approaching many subjects, and can empower students to develop personal understanding and build good relationships that will ultimately lead to positive community involvement and productive communities.
Mr. Rossi is a 1971 graduate of Boston s Berklee College of Music and lifelong jazz pianist, and educator. He has demonstrated the effectiveness of his approach in programs in Seattle, WA, and Albany, NY, and is currently building a center for mentoring through the arts in Chester County, PA.
Bill Rossi reminds us that young people cannot grow up complete unless art, music and creativity are part of their lives, and demonstrates how to bring out the best in students with specific instructional approaches encouraging mentoring, strength-based teaching, motivation, and putting students first. What he demonstrates is that effective education is . . . about encouraging young people’s innate love of learning.
—James Harvey, Senior Fellow, Evans School of Public Affairs,
University of Washington; co-author, A Legacy of Learning.
This volume provides valuable, specific tools for anyone wanting to creatively enhance their ability to teach or mentor. This is a very effective approach, and should contribute to educational and social reform.
—Katherine Gerbino, Ph.D., Assistant District
Superintendent of Instruction, Capital Region BOCES, NY
William Rossi will be a presenter at the 2010 AERO conference.
Growing-Up Alternative: Reflections on School, Education, and Life.
February 2, 2010 at 6:34 pm | In AERO, AERO Conference, AERO Online Video Series, Democratic Education | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, AERO Conference, Anna Finklestein, Kris Sage
Anna Finklestein & Kris Sage 2009 AERO Conference Keynote Talk
Find out about the 2010 AERO conference here.
You can purchase this talk and others here.
The History of Online Education
February 2, 2010 at 5:35 pm | In AERO | Leave a CommentTags: AERO, History of Online Education, Online Education, OnlineEducation.net
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