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Just wondering if anyone has heard of or been to this conference in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area.

It bills itself as having been around for 8 years, and has some significant
workshop presenters, including Alison McKee, the author of two books,
Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves and From Homeschool to College and
Work: Turning Your Homeschooled Experiences into College and Job Portfolios, and
Taber Shadburne, who is a psychologist who works with Grace Llewellyn and her
'Not Back to School Camp'.

There is a lot more info, of course, at their website:
http://www.rethinkingeducation.com

I've never seen this conference mentioned here (although that doesn't mean it
hasn't been...), and I'd like to get some solid feedback before I pony up for
registration at the end of the month.

Good stuff? Not-so-good stuff? Solid stuff? Tongue-wagging stuff?

I'm game for any and all information out there. :-)

Laura B.







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In a message dated 1/17/2004 4:17:52 PM Central Standard Time,
LauraBourdo@... writes:


> Just wondering if anyone has heard of or been to this conference in the
> Dallas-Fort Worth area.
>
>

It sure looks good Laura!
Laura Buoni


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In a message dated 1/17/04 10:21:44 PM Central Standard Time,
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> I'll admit to being a bit prejudiced! <g> But the reason I started the Live
> &
> Learn Unschooling Conference was because I wanted to meet all these
> incredible folks I'd gotten to know virtually for two years.


Kelly --

I wondered if that's what the Live and Learn Conference was for -- kind of a
face-to-face for this online community. What a great idea! I didn't realize
it was that young....thanks for starting it.

Laura B.
who was thinking of maybe doing BOTH, frankly :-)


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In a message dated 1/18/04 1:56:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
LauraBourdo@... writes:

> I wondered if that's what the Live and Learn Conference was for -- kind of
> a
> face-to-face for this online community. What a great idea! I didn't
> realize
> it was that young....thanks for starting it.
>
>

That is not all who attend though. I went to the first one. We had been
unschooling but I knew of no one else who was. I had been searching the web, and
ran across the SOS sight and thought it sounded like a good place to see more
unschooling in action. Although I had no idea it would be so child friendly.
It was refreshing and that is where I heard about the unschooling dotcom
list and a few months later joined.
Thanks Kelly.
Pam G


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