Dive Deeper into the research
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER TO READ BOOKS:
READ THIS FIRST:
Courage to Grow, by Laura Sandefer, co-founder of Acton Academy and a must read for prospective families.
MORE BOOKS ALIGNED WITH OUR PHILOSOPHY:
Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education, by Clark Aldrich
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, by Sal Khan
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education, by Sir Ken Robinson
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How, by Daniel Coyle
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER TO WATCH:
A Day in the Life at An Acton Academy
Interview with Laura Sandefer Summarizing Acton Academy
Sir Ken Robison- Do Schools Kill Creativity
Todd Rose- The Myth of Average
Sugata Mitra- New Experiment in Self Teaching
Carol Dweck- The Power of Believing That You Can Improve
Sal Khan- Let’s Teach to Mastery
FOR THOSE WHO PREFER TO DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH:
ON STUDENT LED LEARNING...
- The Atlantic: What Happens When Students Control Their Own Education?
- New research shows effectiveness of student-centered learning approaches in closing the opportunity gap by Stanford University
- Teachers’ evaluation of student-centered learning environments by Dr. Zuhal Cubukcu, Eskişehir Osmangazi University
- Insights on Personalized Learning Implementation and Effects by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Research on Student Centered Instruction by Brown University
- NPR: When the focus is on the student, not the class
ON MASTERY-BASED LEARNING
- The case against grades by Alfie Kohn
- Ted Talk: Do schools kill creativity by Sir Ken Robinson
- The neuroscience of joyful education by Dr. Judy Willis
- Teaching more by grading less by Jeffrey Schinske and Kimberly Tanner
- NYTimes: A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry
- The Atlantic: Love of Learning More Predictive of Success than Grades
ON MULTI-AGE CLASSROOMS
- The Atlantic: Inside a multi-age classroom
- The multi-age classroom: What research tells the practitioner by Sandra Stone
- Multiage Programming Effects on Cognitive Developmental Level and Reading Achievement in Elementary School Children by Fosco et. al
- On the merits of multi-age classrooms by David Pratt, PH.D
- The advantages and disadvantages of multi-age classrooms: Center for Evaluation and Education Policy
- Multi-age Classrooms: An Age-Old Grouping Method Is Still Evolving: Harvard Education