Fwd: Rethinking Education Conference Update: 4/2/07
Nichole Fausey-Khosraviani
Please pass this on to your other groups and lists. If you have any questions about the conference, please write to Barb Lundgren at barb@... or me at ms_fausey@.... This is a 100% unschooling conference for unschoolers of all ages. Please read the update below. Just look at these folks. It's going to be an excellent conference and you'll make connections that will last a lifetime!
Barb Lundgren <barb@...> wrote:
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:50:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barb Lundgren <barb@...>
To: ms_fausey@...
Subject: Rethinking Education Conference Update: 4/2/07
Rethinking Education Conference NEWS
Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 30 - Sept. 3
In today's UPDATE: Monday, April 9
:: 2007 Highlights: Debbie Shapiro
:: What People Are Saying About the Rethinking Education Conference
:: What To Do NOW
:: MORE 2007 Highlights: Michael Mendizza
Greetings!
The 11th national conference on Rethinking Education is Labor Day Weekend: Thursday, August 30 - Monday, September 3, 2007 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Irving, Texas , just minutes from Dallas and the DFW Airport. A complimentary shuttle runs to and from the hotel - airport 24 hours a day.
Our website contains up to date information on our program, registration, and all details! Out-of-the-box, fun and provoking sessions for adults, teens, tweens and kids of all ages, all weekend... 5 days!
REGISTER by April 28 and receive a $50 discount per person!
VOLUNTEER to further reduce your cost. Check out the volunteer jobs available on our conference website.
We still have SO MUCH to tell you in our updates. Complete information and is available on our website, and we will be adding to the program throughout the summer.
2007 Highlights: Debbie Shapiro
Unschooling = Montessori!
DEBBIE SHAPIRO
is a parent, step-parent and educator who, thanks to the support of her husband Sig, has enjoyed spending over twenty seven years playing with children. Although Debbie is new to un-schooling, she is very excited about it and shares the underlying values and philosophy. Debbie has over 22 years of direct personal experience combating the drill and test mentality that plagues traditional education. Her strong conflictual feelings on testing compelled her to close her highly successful Montessori pre-school program. She is now a successful, and much happier, Montessori school ³drop-out.² She remains a passionate lover of all things Montessori: hands-on, self-directed and fun. Each of her sessions will incorporate the best of Montessori theory, practice and materials.
Debbie holds a BA in Human Development; Certification as a California Early Childhood Education Teacher and is a credentialed Montessori Pre-Primary Teacher. She runs her own consulting practice; Evergreen Education Services.
Debbie will host:
Meeting Your Children Where They Are
Knowledge is always the best tool for making good choices. You will learn how to assess where your child is in his/her development and how to support their unique approach to learning. This knowledge will help guide you in selecting a full range of creative, open-ended, self-directed activities. We¹ll talk about and experiment with many different kinds of activities which will compliment your child¹s learning styles, abilities and interests.
Get Organized : Space Design Ideas That are Kid Safe and Learning Friendly
Debbie shares room-by-room ideas of ways to create child friendly, accessible areas in your home that will encourage and support your child¹s active, self-directed participation in everything from setting the table to exploring space.
Math Mania
Come try for yourself some of the creative hands-on materials that teach your child foundational math concepts from simple counting to division. You will leave with loads of fun and engaging ideas for activities you can create at home even on a shoestring budget.
Let us put our minds together and see what we will make for our children.
Chief Sitting Bull
About Rethinking Education
Founded in 1994, Rethinking Education, with its international conference, is at the forefront of a rapidly growing trend in education.
RE is organized and produced by Barb Lundgren, an unschooling mom with 24 years of magical, glorious and utterly amazing unschool experience. What a great life it is to nurture and support not only your child's drive to be free, but your own as well!
At the heart of Rethinking Education is awareness that children are supremely capable of absorbing and using knowledge from our complex world. There is no need for arbitrary structure in education; the use of coercion, rewards or other behavior modification techniques as motivation are counterproductive. With freedom, respect and nurturing support, children have a powerful drive to self-direct their own learning; the result being children who direct their own education... indeed, their own futures.
Education viewed this way becomes a mutual endeavor, a life-long process of questioning and discovery ... a true exploration of self, society, our big, beautiful world.
Proponents are widespread and include John Taylor Gatto, Jan Fortune-Wood, John Holt, Bruno Bettleheim, Alice Miller, Ivan Illich, Susannah Sheffer, A.S. Neill, Daniel Greenberg, Jonathan Kozol, and many others.
We're Looking for a Few Great Mentors
We are receiving lots of requests for unschool mentoring! Thank you to all of you who have already volunteered to help - everyone appreciates you. Unschooling is very much a "Brave New World" for many, and your experience and wisdom can be a glorious breath of fresh air for a mom who passionately wants to embrace unschooling but is struggling. If you can offer some time to mentor someone, email Barb at barb@.... Typically, a mentoree will want to exchange emails with you for a few weeks, or, with your permission, call you at their expense to talk through their challenge. LOVE to you!
Please forward this email update to your friends!
Did you know you can forward this entire, fully formatted update to all your friends and relatives who may want to attend the Rethinking Education 2007 conference? It's easy! Go to the bottom of this update and click on "forward email". You can even send your friends a message to let them know how much you want them to attend. We look forward to having a broad and diverse community of unschool families with us this year.
What People Are Saying About the Rethinking Education Conference
"What a wonderful, magical, thought-provoking weekend!! I was so happy to hear there would be another conference. We have attended every conference since our 8 year old was an infant and our teenagers were just reaching "school age." I feel so fortunate that my timing was just right in meeting you all 12 years ago. I am not sure I would have had the courage to unschool our children all these years otherwise. Attending the conferences just backs up my instincts, as La Leche League did for breast-feeding and home births."
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My 2 daughters and I attended the Rethinking Education Conference this past year for the first time. I loved it!!! The weekend was a revelation for me. I just kept thinking and saying, 'this way of learning just makes sense!'
I think I experienced almost every emotion during the conference... excitement, sense of freedom, love, happiness, joy...but also fear, frustration, jealousy, sadness, and even anger. I feel so thankful that there are leaders like you who help to bring people together who share common interests, beliefs, and values. Again, thank you! You are an angel in our lives. My husband, the girls, and I plan on attending the Conference again next year."
"I think this conference was my favorite, although I say that every year. It feels like such a safe wonderful village, appearing once a year, like Brigadoon. It's always so wonderful to see new people having those doors open in their minds, as mine did, people putting words to your thoughts, affirming what you hoped was right and true."
"Kid Village was fabulous! Every session I went to was wonderful; I love the whole atmosphere, with people doing what they love and needed at any time, all the inspiration around me."
"I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful, impactful, and 'opening' the conference was for us. Be back next year with neighbors for sure."
What To Do NOW
Register... You must attend!
The Early Bird Registration discount ends on April 28 - that's just 3 weeks away!
There are many ways to register!
CALL Barb at 817.540.6423
EMAIL barb@...
DOWNLOAD a Registration Form & MAIL or FAX it.
Fax to: 817.545.3599
MAIL to: 3013 Hickory Hill, Colleyville, Texas... 76034
MORE 2007 Highlights: Michael Mendizza
Welcome back Michael!
Play is the most serious undertaking of a childs life. It is the umbrella under which all learning takes place.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
MICHAEL MENDIZZA
is an author, educator, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center, and executive producer of the Nurturing Project. Michael¹s work centers on the state of optimum learning and performance, what Athletes call the Zone, researchers call Flow and children call Play. Both Nurturing and Touch the Future promote authentic free play as the optimum state to meet any challenge, at any age. Helping adults rediscover and embody this state while relating with children eliminates the majority of conflicts in a relationship, freeing energy and attention required for optimum learning and performance. Michael writes and speaks on varied topics including Media and the Brain, The Next Frontier in Education, Birth, Bonding & Brain Development, Transcendent Mentoring of This and Future Generations, Who Do We Think We Are (on the origins of self and its limitations), Science, Story, and Creativity, The Origins of Love and Violence and The
Intelligence of Play. He is the author of Magical Parent-Magical Child, a book he co-authored with Joseph Chilton Pearce. His websites are www.ttfuture.org, and www.nurturing.us
Michael will host the following sessions this year:
To Me Or Not To Me
Ever feel embarrassed? Why? The images we have about ourselves predetermine how we relate to the world and most importantly to our children. If the our self-image image is switched on, smart, stupid, fat, thin, boy, girl, macho, cute, sexy, our behavior is filtered through that image. Our behavior is limited and we infect our children with the same limitations. Collectively we call these limiting filters ME. For most of us, for most of our lives we think that this collective image called is real and necessary. In optimum states, play, flow and what athletes call the zone, the limiting self-image is switched off, freeing the full spectrum of our vast potential to meet the world fully and completely. As parents and educators, To Me or Not to ME? That is indeed is the question if we want our children to actualize their full potential.
Anger, Conflict and General ARRGHs: a Dad's Discussion Group
Michael's research and life experience has convinced him that much, perhaps even the majority, of men's general grumbling, anger and dissatisfaction is due to identity conflicts between them and the women in their early lives, beginning very early with dear old-mom. Want to hear more? Share your own ideas, and explore resolutions.
Our conference is provoking, outrageous, inspiring and mind-blowing... for the whole family. Grandparents attend free! Speakers include:
John Taylor Gatto, Ren Allen, Peter Kowalke, Tracy Liebmann, Michael Mendizza, Cindy Gaddis, Eli Gerzon, Debbie Shapiro ... so many more!
Our wildly popular kid and teen activities include:
Kid Village, Teen & Tween Village, non-stop, out-of-the-box art, unprom, yoga, dance, gobs of extraordinary sessions....
Wait! There's more....
Talent Show, Recycled Resource Fair, Family Vendor Fair, Silent Auction, Grateful Space, Monster Pickup Sticks... we're even building a Yurt!
Call or email Barb Lundgren with questions or to register! Rethinking Education
email: barb@...
phone: 817.540.6423
web: http://www.rethinkingeducation.com
Register by April 28 for HUGE SAVINGS!!! REGISTER by April 28 and receive a $50 discount per person . . .that's just $75 for 5 incredible, action-packed, life changing days... and Grandparents are free!
Check it out now...
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Barb Lundgren <barb@...> wrote:
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:50:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Barb Lundgren <barb@...>
To: ms_fausey@...
Subject: Rethinking Education Conference Update: 4/2/07
Rethinking Education Conference NEWS
Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 30 - Sept. 3
In today's UPDATE: Monday, April 9
:: 2007 Highlights: Debbie Shapiro
:: What People Are Saying About the Rethinking Education Conference
:: What To Do NOW
:: MORE 2007 Highlights: Michael Mendizza
Greetings!
The 11th national conference on Rethinking Education is Labor Day Weekend: Thursday, August 30 - Monday, September 3, 2007 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Irving, Texas , just minutes from Dallas and the DFW Airport. A complimentary shuttle runs to and from the hotel - airport 24 hours a day.
Our website contains up to date information on our program, registration, and all details! Out-of-the-box, fun and provoking sessions for adults, teens, tweens and kids of all ages, all weekend... 5 days!
REGISTER by April 28 and receive a $50 discount per person!
VOLUNTEER to further reduce your cost. Check out the volunteer jobs available on our conference website.
We still have SO MUCH to tell you in our updates. Complete information and is available on our website, and we will be adding to the program throughout the summer.
2007 Highlights: Debbie Shapiro
Unschooling = Montessori!
DEBBIE SHAPIRO
is a parent, step-parent and educator who, thanks to the support of her husband Sig, has enjoyed spending over twenty seven years playing with children. Although Debbie is new to un-schooling, she is very excited about it and shares the underlying values and philosophy. Debbie has over 22 years of direct personal experience combating the drill and test mentality that plagues traditional education. Her strong conflictual feelings on testing compelled her to close her highly successful Montessori pre-school program. She is now a successful, and much happier, Montessori school ³drop-out.² She remains a passionate lover of all things Montessori: hands-on, self-directed and fun. Each of her sessions will incorporate the best of Montessori theory, practice and materials.
Debbie holds a BA in Human Development; Certification as a California Early Childhood Education Teacher and is a credentialed Montessori Pre-Primary Teacher. She runs her own consulting practice; Evergreen Education Services.
Debbie will host:
Meeting Your Children Where They Are
Knowledge is always the best tool for making good choices. You will learn how to assess where your child is in his/her development and how to support their unique approach to learning. This knowledge will help guide you in selecting a full range of creative, open-ended, self-directed activities. We¹ll talk about and experiment with many different kinds of activities which will compliment your child¹s learning styles, abilities and interests.
Get Organized : Space Design Ideas That are Kid Safe and Learning Friendly
Debbie shares room-by-room ideas of ways to create child friendly, accessible areas in your home that will encourage and support your child¹s active, self-directed participation in everything from setting the table to exploring space.
Math Mania
Come try for yourself some of the creative hands-on materials that teach your child foundational math concepts from simple counting to division. You will leave with loads of fun and engaging ideas for activities you can create at home even on a shoestring budget.
Let us put our minds together and see what we will make for our children.
Chief Sitting Bull
About Rethinking Education
Founded in 1994, Rethinking Education, with its international conference, is at the forefront of a rapidly growing trend in education.
RE is organized and produced by Barb Lundgren, an unschooling mom with 24 years of magical, glorious and utterly amazing unschool experience. What a great life it is to nurture and support not only your child's drive to be free, but your own as well!
At the heart of Rethinking Education is awareness that children are supremely capable of absorbing and using knowledge from our complex world. There is no need for arbitrary structure in education; the use of coercion, rewards or other behavior modification techniques as motivation are counterproductive. With freedom, respect and nurturing support, children have a powerful drive to self-direct their own learning; the result being children who direct their own education... indeed, their own futures.
Education viewed this way becomes a mutual endeavor, a life-long process of questioning and discovery ... a true exploration of self, society, our big, beautiful world.
Proponents are widespread and include John Taylor Gatto, Jan Fortune-Wood, John Holt, Bruno Bettleheim, Alice Miller, Ivan Illich, Susannah Sheffer, A.S. Neill, Daniel Greenberg, Jonathan Kozol, and many others.
We're Looking for a Few Great Mentors
We are receiving lots of requests for unschool mentoring! Thank you to all of you who have already volunteered to help - everyone appreciates you. Unschooling is very much a "Brave New World" for many, and your experience and wisdom can be a glorious breath of fresh air for a mom who passionately wants to embrace unschooling but is struggling. If you can offer some time to mentor someone, email Barb at barb@.... Typically, a mentoree will want to exchange emails with you for a few weeks, or, with your permission, call you at their expense to talk through their challenge. LOVE to you!
Please forward this email update to your friends!
Did you know you can forward this entire, fully formatted update to all your friends and relatives who may want to attend the Rethinking Education 2007 conference? It's easy! Go to the bottom of this update and click on "forward email". You can even send your friends a message to let them know how much you want them to attend. We look forward to having a broad and diverse community of unschool families with us this year.
What People Are Saying About the Rethinking Education Conference
"What a wonderful, magical, thought-provoking weekend!! I was so happy to hear there would be another conference. We have attended every conference since our 8 year old was an infant and our teenagers were just reaching "school age." I feel so fortunate that my timing was just right in meeting you all 12 years ago. I am not sure I would have had the courage to unschool our children all these years otherwise. Attending the conferences just backs up my instincts, as La Leche League did for breast-feeding and home births."
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My 2 daughters and I attended the Rethinking Education Conference this past year for the first time. I loved it!!! The weekend was a revelation for me. I just kept thinking and saying, 'this way of learning just makes sense!'
I think I experienced almost every emotion during the conference... excitement, sense of freedom, love, happiness, joy...but also fear, frustration, jealousy, sadness, and even anger. I feel so thankful that there are leaders like you who help to bring people together who share common interests, beliefs, and values. Again, thank you! You are an angel in our lives. My husband, the girls, and I plan on attending the Conference again next year."
"I think this conference was my favorite, although I say that every year. It feels like such a safe wonderful village, appearing once a year, like Brigadoon. It's always so wonderful to see new people having those doors open in their minds, as mine did, people putting words to your thoughts, affirming what you hoped was right and true."
"Kid Village was fabulous! Every session I went to was wonderful; I love the whole atmosphere, with people doing what they love and needed at any time, all the inspiration around me."
"I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful, impactful, and 'opening' the conference was for us. Be back next year with neighbors for sure."
What To Do NOW
Register... You must attend!
The Early Bird Registration discount ends on April 28 - that's just 3 weeks away!
There are many ways to register!
CALL Barb at 817.540.6423
EMAIL barb@...
DOWNLOAD a Registration Form & MAIL or FAX it.
Fax to: 817.545.3599
MAIL to: 3013 Hickory Hill, Colleyville, Texas... 76034
MORE 2007 Highlights: Michael Mendizza
Welcome back Michael!
Play is the most serious undertaking of a childs life. It is the umbrella under which all learning takes place.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
MICHAEL MENDIZZA
is an author, educator, documentary filmmaker, and founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center, and executive producer of the Nurturing Project. Michael¹s work centers on the state of optimum learning and performance, what Athletes call the Zone, researchers call Flow and children call Play. Both Nurturing and Touch the Future promote authentic free play as the optimum state to meet any challenge, at any age. Helping adults rediscover and embody this state while relating with children eliminates the majority of conflicts in a relationship, freeing energy and attention required for optimum learning and performance. Michael writes and speaks on varied topics including Media and the Brain, The Next Frontier in Education, Birth, Bonding & Brain Development, Transcendent Mentoring of This and Future Generations, Who Do We Think We Are (on the origins of self and its limitations), Science, Story, and Creativity, The Origins of Love and Violence and The
Intelligence of Play. He is the author of Magical Parent-Magical Child, a book he co-authored with Joseph Chilton Pearce. His websites are www.ttfuture.org, and www.nurturing.us
Michael will host the following sessions this year:
To Me Or Not To Me
Ever feel embarrassed? Why? The images we have about ourselves predetermine how we relate to the world and most importantly to our children. If the our self-image image is switched on, smart, stupid, fat, thin, boy, girl, macho, cute, sexy, our behavior is filtered through that image. Our behavior is limited and we infect our children with the same limitations. Collectively we call these limiting filters ME. For most of us, for most of our lives we think that this collective image called is real and necessary. In optimum states, play, flow and what athletes call the zone, the limiting self-image is switched off, freeing the full spectrum of our vast potential to meet the world fully and completely. As parents and educators, To Me or Not to ME? That is indeed is the question if we want our children to actualize their full potential.
Anger, Conflict and General ARRGHs: a Dad's Discussion Group
Michael's research and life experience has convinced him that much, perhaps even the majority, of men's general grumbling, anger and dissatisfaction is due to identity conflicts between them and the women in their early lives, beginning very early with dear old-mom. Want to hear more? Share your own ideas, and explore resolutions.
Our conference is provoking, outrageous, inspiring and mind-blowing... for the whole family. Grandparents attend free! Speakers include:
John Taylor Gatto, Ren Allen, Peter Kowalke, Tracy Liebmann, Michael Mendizza, Cindy Gaddis, Eli Gerzon, Debbie Shapiro ... so many more!
Our wildly popular kid and teen activities include:
Kid Village, Teen & Tween Village, non-stop, out-of-the-box art, unprom, yoga, dance, gobs of extraordinary sessions....
Wait! There's more....
Talent Show, Recycled Resource Fair, Family Vendor Fair, Silent Auction, Grateful Space, Monster Pickup Sticks... we're even building a Yurt!
Call or email Barb Lundgren with questions or to register! Rethinking Education
email: barb@...
phone: 817.540.6423
web: http://www.rethinkingeducation.com
Register by April 28 for HUGE SAVINGS!!! REGISTER by April 28 and receive a $50 discount per person . . .that's just $75 for 5 incredible, action-packed, life changing days... and Grandparents are free!
Check it out now...
Forward email
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