"Albuquerque, Saskatoon, Cucamonga"

Sandra Dodd's Speaking Schedule
 and notes on past conferences


This one's over and notes are here.

Home Education Network of Arizona, Tempe
March 1-2, 2008

HENA 2008 CONFERENCE: Home Education Network of Arizona, Tempe, March 1-2, 2008

Unschooling Conferences upcoming, even those at which I'm not speaking, are here.

Some Bios and Intros

HSC/Sacramento 2007:


Sandra Dodd
"Connect the Dots"
Sunday, August 19th, 9:00 a.m.
Many of you have asked, and we've listened! We're very excited to welcome Sandra Dodd back to our conference! Sandra will be with us all weekend and will also be our Sunday keynote speaker! Sandra's keynote, "Connect the Dots," will be a discussion and illustration of the many different ways in which everything and anything can be connected in our minds, and how learning becomes easier and easier with each new connection.

During the weekend, Sandra will also be presenting workshops on "Parenting Peacefully," "Unschooling," and "Rounds and Responsorial Songs of the Last Seven Centuries."

Sandra Dodd is an unschooling mother of three (ages 21, 18, and 15), a writer, a former classroom teacher, and a well-known voice in online discussions about unschooling. She has written for and/or been featured in Home Education Magazine, Life Learning, Live Free Learn Free, and other publications. She has also published Moving a Puddle, a collection of her essays.

Minnesota, 2007:

Our keynote speaker, Sandra Dodd, will grace us with her humor and insight. Sandra is a well-known voice in the unschooling community, both online and in print. She has written for or been featured in Home Education Magazine, Life Learning, Live Free Learn Free, and numerous other homeschooling publications in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, France and the United States. Her delightful collection of essays, Moving a Puddle, has been very well received in the homeschooling community.

The overall theme of Sandra’s writings and her approach to education is that learning, parenting and everyday life can be wonderful in the absence of school. Sandra maintains a website with helpful resources and support for unschoolers, at sandradodd.com. She and her husband Keith live in Albuquerque, New Mexico with their three children, none of whom have ever been to school. Sandra’s unschooled 15-year-old daughter Holly plans to join us at this year’s MHA conference.

Arizona, 2007:


Sandra Dodd's thoughts can be seen on www.SandraDodd.com and she says:I've been interested in teaching and how people learn since I was six, and (as is usual in big busy lives) all I've done before has led up to what I'm doing now. I grew up in northern New Mexico, I've been blessed with curiously bright and curious friends who shared their questions and answers with me, and there's nothing to do with that but pass it on to any curious others.

My main online activities have to do with that sort of radical homeschooling known as unschooling. I write about unschooling and I speak at conferences sometimes, and run workshops upon occasion. Some nice unschoolers who'd been collecting quotes and paying attention to me made a Wikipedia page.

New Mexico, 1997:

Sandra Dodd attended public school in Espanola, and taught English at Espanola Jr. High for six years before retiring to the rustic and scenic northeast heights of Albuquerque. She lives with her husband Keith, an Alamogordo boy, and their three children Kirby (10), Marty (8) and Holly (5), who have never been to school. Sandra edits two e-mail newsletters, one for the Homeschooling Forum on America Online, and the other for Home Education Magazine's online homeschooling forum.

Recent: Minnesota Homeschoolers Alliance, New Brighton
September 29, 2007
The Annual Conference
Holly Dodd (15) will attend, too.
FOLLOW-UP PAGE! Questions and Answers from this conference

HSC Home=Education Conference, Sacramento
August 16-19, 2007
Home School Association of California

FOLLOW-UP PAGE! Questions and Answers following the unschooling panel


HENA 2007 CONFERENCE: Home Education Network of Arizona, Tempe, February 24-25, 2007

wasn't exclusively an unschooling conference, but it did have Mary Griffith, Pam Sorooshian and Sandra Dodd as speakers!
PAST CONFERENCES AND TOPICS: New Mexico Family Educators' Workshop Fair, March 23, 1996, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Unschooling
Computers in Family Education (with Linda Witz)
Home=Education, April 27-28, 1996, Anaheim, California
Unschooling
East Mountain Unschoolers Club, Doc Long's in the Sandia Mountains, June 5, 1996
Keynote speech: Don't Be Afraid--Developing Confidence in Yourself
Home=Education, August 23-25, 1996, Sacramento, California
Words as Toys
"That's Not Educational!"
Unschooling with Abandon
Exploring the Middle Ages
New Mexico Family Educators' Celebration of Natural Learning, March 21 & 22, 1997, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Introduction to Unschooling
Sometimes less is more. Sorting out how people learn from the way most of us were taught in school is a worthy undertaking for new homeschoolers. Adults routinely learn things on their own at their own speed, and children can too, with help and encouragement.
What Teachers Know that You Don't Know
Homeschoolers sometimes express concern that "real teachers" (or former teachers) can homeschool better or more easily than "non-teachers" can. This workshop will encourage and reassure homeschoolers by demystifying the secret knowledge of teachers.
Mindfull's Rethinking Education, May 24-16, 1997, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Thinking Hard Made Easy
The Importance of Play
Getting the Teacher out of the Homeschool
History Through Ballads and Songs
Third Annual Southern California Homeschool Conference, May 31, 1997 Riverside, California
"That's Not Educational!"
"Can all learning be fun? If a workshop is 'just fun' can you learn something? Sandra Dodd thinks so. If you can stump her with something you think has no educational value whatsoever, you'll get a prize. (An educational prize, of course.) Come and be inspired!"
Adventures in Homeschooling Conference, H.O.M.Educators, August 22-24, 1997, Columbus, Ohio
"That's Not Educational!"
The Secrets Teachers Know
Fourth Annual Southern California Homeschool Conference, April 4, 1998, Long Beach, California
Brave New Thoughts–Unschooling with Sandra Dodd
"This presentation will be a disturbing, humorous, uplifting, embarrassing, reassuring talk on how poeple think when they're not thinking about thinking, and how they COULD think if they thought about it. It will be about unschooling and thinking. About learning and life."
OHEN, Oregon Home Education Network, March 27, 1999, Portland, Oregon
Unschooling: What's That?
Conversations on Homeschooling (with Richard Prystowsky)
Fifth Annual Southern California Homeschool Conference, April 24, 1999, Long Beach, California
Permission to Think Without Permission
Enchanted Families Workshop Fair, March 25, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Unschooling: An Unconventional Adventure
Northern Nevada Home Schools Education Fair, July 2000, Reno, Nevada
What Teachers Know that You Don't Know
Beginning Unschooling
Advanced Unschooling
Seventh Annual Southern California Homeschool Conference, March 10, 2001, Long Beach, California
A Conversation with Sandra Dodd
Six ten-minute speeches each interrupted by a ringing timer, to make a point.
HSC's California Home=Education Conference, August 17-19, 2001, Sacramento, California
Unschooling Gloriously Introduced
To Question or Not To Question--That is the Question! (with Richard Prystowsky)
Seeing the Writing on the Wall, Even When the Writing Isn't There (with Richard Prystowsky)
Notes following this conference and the promised BOOK list.
Seventh Annual Southern California Homeschool Conference, April 6, 2002, sponsored by BayShore, Long Beach, California
A Conversation with Sandra Dodd
Ideas for checklists (which became an article) and how to deschool the parent for the good of the child.
Featured Speaker, HSC Home=Education Conference, August 16-18, 2002, Sacramento, California
Practicalities of Unschooling
Peaceful Parenting with Richard Prystowsky
The Many Benefits of Video Games with Dan Vilter and Kathy Ward
Unschooling Panel member

Rio Grande Homeschooling Network Conference, September 6-7, 2002, Albuquerque

FOLLOW-UP PAGE! Questions and Answers from this conference

Texas Family Learning Conference, October 4-5, 2002, Houston

"Knowledge Beyond Numbers—NO BOUNDARIES," SHBE (Saskatchewan Home Based Educators), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Feb 28 / March 1, 2003

Live & Learn Unschooling ConferenceColumbia, South Carolina, August 22-24, 2003 Keynote Speaker

2nd Annual Nevada Homeschool Network Convention, Las Vegas, Nevada. June 18-19, 2004
With Holly Dodd. Our appearance there is sponsored by the Las Vegas Life Learners.

December 2004, Southern California

Thursday, December 2, Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Rancho Cucamonga
Saturday, December 4, Garden Grove Friends Church
Introduction to Unschooling (Pam Sorooshian)
Ideas, Knowing, Being, Learning (Sandra Dodd)
Monday, December 6, Bakersfield
August 27-29, 2004, Live & Learn New England Conference in Peabody, Massachusetts

September 11, 2004, Chicago Unschoolers Workshop (2nd annual), Portage Park Center for the Arts on Chicago's north west side. This day long event featured Sandra Dodd, Dorothy Werner, Alison McKee, and Jean Vondriska.

October 2005, Live and Learn Conference St. Louis, Missouri

Unforeseen Benefits of Unschooling
Connections
Mindful Parenting (with Ren Allen)

September 2006 Live and Learn Conference Albuquerquelocal details

Big Noisy Peace
Flow
For more information, contact Sandra@SandraDodd.com