A Better Path to Learning

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  • What’s Wrong with a Microschool?

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    Why aren’t more high schools embracing the microschool idea? Microschools are small learning groups that train young learners to define, plan, execute, and evaluate their own learning. The goals of most microschools are to make young learners better readers, writers, problem-solvers, and to build character. Ten years ago or more, my educational non-profit supported a…

  • What Learning Orgs Could Look Like

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    Some of the best advice I ever received when it came to running a school or a group of schools came from kids – not adults. I had student advisory groups when I led a middle school and when I led a high school. I even had a student advisory group when I was a…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    Here’s your Friday News Roundup. Play-Based Learning in Kindergarten Is Making a Comeback. Here’s What It Means (EducationWeek) Play-Based Learning Yields More Joy, Higher Scores at This Elementary School (EducationWeek) Play has returned to America’s kindergartens. EducationWeek ran two articles (originally printed in 2025) last week highlighting play-based learning and its reappearance in American elementary…

  • Hearing from Parents

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    Last week Educated Reimagined released an interview with Marc Porter Magee, CEO of 50Can and Dr. Felicia Cumings Smith, President and CEO of the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), focused on a recent 50-state survey of 20,000 parents. Parent attitudes regarding their children’s learning, including those choices their young learners and their families make…

  • Microschools On the Move

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    Microschool enrollment is increasing across America. A microschool is a small, flexible learning environment that blends personalization with a community of learners that offers a tailored, student-centered learning atmosphere. The 74 highlighted the increased attention toward microschools in an online article last week: “Kara Fox did not want to wait. A mom of two, she…

  • AI Moving Forward

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    As young learners and their coaches become more familiar with artificial intelligence and how AI can assist and impact their learning, it’s still troubling that too many K-12 districts are committed to banning not only AI, but also cellphones and social media. The BIG Questions Institute published an online article last week discussing five trends…

  • A Couple of Homeschool Stories

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    Today we discuss homeschooling on a couple of fronts. First, to continue our focus on anywhere learning, Vermont’s North Branch Nature Center has designed a learning program targeted for those homeschooled young learners. For more than a decade, this nature center has helped thousands of public school students throughout Central Vermont immerse themselves in nature…

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    Is a learning organization successful if it increases its academic performance while losing enrollment? Maybe that learning organization is improving performance because of lost enrollment? This is the case with the Houston Independent School District. HISD reports a decline in enrollment of 168,400 students in the 2025-26 school year, a loss of 4.7%. Back in…

  • Let’s Stop Insulting Great Adult Learning Leaders

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    Great teachers are trapped inside a bad model. Most are unable to create an exemplary learning environment for their young learners because the districts they work for dominate learning time with mediocre curriculum, predictable pacing guides, and simplified lesson plans. If that’s not bad enough, great teachers are underpaid, unappreciated, and, for the most part,…

  • Learning From Warren

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    Warren Buffett resigned as Berkshire Hathaway’s Chief Executive Officer December 31, 2025, after 60 years of leading the massive multinational conglomerate holding company. In an article posted on December 18th in The Atlantic online, the answer to how Buffett was able to amass over $160 billion in his career was five-fold: “An alert, quick, accurate,…