Category Archives: Passion-Inspired Learning

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Life is a Highlight Reel

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An acquaintance of mine has painstakingly decided to put her children back in school. She wrote a beautiful piece describing her homeschooling angst: It’s easy to focus on all our short-comings, unrealized goals, and criticism after we’ve made the final … Continue reading

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Promoting a Positive Relationship with Print

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There’s so much pressure around learning to read in our culture. Not just learning to read, but learning to read early. We have come to associate early reading with higher intelligence or a sign of future academic success. This is … Continue reading

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The Creative Outlets

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I’ve discussed here the type of school subjects that interest right-brained children most, and why. But I haven’t taken the time to discuss a category of subjects that are at the heart of a right-brained person: what I term the … Continue reading

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Teacher Talk: Math Corners

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Victoria at Unschooling Math left a comment on my blog post about Honoring Both Math Minds about how her son learns right now: His pattern block designs are counted out and planned in his head before execution. They are usually … Continue reading

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Understanding the Strengths-Based Learning Process

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A little while ago on my Homeschooling Creatively list, a homeschooling mother came on and offered a free worksheet for curriculum planning. There were several glaring things on her worksheet that opposed what we talk about on the list regarding … Continue reading