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Process over Product

• March 1, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Creativity, Play-based Learning
Tags: children, creativity, Dallas Clayton, effective teaching, humanizing, imagination, personal skill-building, play-based learning, process over product, soulful education, unschooling

“The Venn of Play”

• October 16, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Child-led learning, Play-based Learning
Tags: children, connections, creativity, imagination, personal skill-building, play-based learning, soulful education

Joy of Learning through Play & Other Viable Answers

• March 6, 2014 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Child-led learning, Creativity, Islamic Pedagogy, Spirituality
Tags: children, connections, creativity, effective teaching, Hamza Yusuf Hanson, homeschooling, humanizing, imagination, motivation, play-based learning, soulful education, spirituality

How to be an explorer of the world

• January 11, 2014 • 4 Comments

Posted in Child-led learning, Creativity
Tags: aims, children, connections, creativity, imagination, life-long learning, motivation, nature, personal skill-building, play-based learning, soulful education, visions, youth

Rhymes & Reasons

• December 31, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Aims, Authentic Education, Creativity, Islamic Pedagogy, Spirituality
Tags: Abdul Hakim Murad, aims, children, connections, creativity, effective teaching, humanizing, imagination, Kinza Academy, life-long learning, play-based learning, soulful education, spirituality, TJ Winter, youth

Insanity

• November 4, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Child-led learning, Creativity
Tags: aims, child-led learning, children, connections, creativity, humanizing, imagination, personal skill-building, play-based learning, soulful education, standardized testing, student needs, students, teach to the test

We have our lives to live.

• October 21, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Child-led learning, Homeschooling, School is not education
Tags: aims, children, connections, creativity, effective teaching, homeschooling, parenting, personal skill-building, play-based learning, respect, responsibility, soulful education, student needs, teach to the test, visions

A Day Seized

• July 18, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Creativity, Nature Education, Play-based Learning
Tags: children, connections, creativity, imagination, life-long learning, nature, nature deficit disorder, place-based education, play-based learning, soulful education

Then and Now

• July 6, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Child-led learning
Tags: aims, conformity, connections, creativity, gender education, gender-based education, gendered education, girls, imagination, life-long learning, motivation, personal skill-building, play-based learning, student needs, teaching girls

Life based learning

• June 30, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Authentic Education, Creativity, Responsibility vs Obedience
Tags: children, connections, creativity, homeschooling, humanizing, life-long learning, making a difference, motivation, personal skill-building, play-based learning, respect, responsibility, soulful education, spirituality, unschooling

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