Look For The Helpers-Mothering The Mother with Amanda Curmi Amanda is a mother of 3 beams of energy and resides on the east coast of Australia. They are an unschooling family moving through life as gently and consciously as they can together. She loves supporting and diving deep into a gentle approach towards education and sees herself as a facilitator rather than a teacher, aiming to hold space for the children to lead the way and develop through self - directed learning. The process of choosin...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 77
"Children really learn best when they are able to pursue their own interests and follow their own timetable." Alternatives To School Mandy Spiczka has been helping kids learn and grow all of her life. Through mentoring, a summer program counsellor, an after school coordinator, tutor and then as a public school teacher she has always been drawn to work that allows her to support kids. But once Mandy became a parent herself, she decided she wanted her daughter to "have an education that is as uniq...
Jun 18, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 76
Blake Boles is a writer, speaker, adventurer, and advocate for self-directed learning. He has spent more than a decade working with unconventionally educated teenagers through the trip-leading company he founded, Unschool Adventures. Originally from California, Blake has lived and traveled across the world. His previous books include The Art of Self-Directed Learning, Better Than College, and College Without High School, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Christian Science...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 75
Work Schedules and Family Rhythms: Jim and Jamie Sheils I went looking for helpers and I found Jim and Jamie Sheils. Jim and Jamie Sheils help busy professionals create deeper, more connected, more meaningful relationships with their spouse and children so they can have the family life they've always imagined. As successful entrepreneurs with a family of six, Jim & Jamie speak all over the world, guiding others in igniting their family life, as they grow and nurture their business life. Thro...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 74
Thrive, Not Just Survive with Teresa Wiedrick Teresea Wiedrick joins me on this edition of my special series, Look For The Helpers . We talk about learning, homeschooling, and living through a an epidemic with teenagers. How do we manage overwhelm and learn to thrive, not just survive? Teresa Wiedrick is eager to share the freedoms of the homeschool lifestyle with the skeptical, the intrigued, and the curious. Twelve years ago, she searched for arguments against homeschooling, and that search sh...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 73
Look For The Helpers~ A Series “Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person – and often many – who have believed in him or her. We just don’t get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others… From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving.” Fred Rogers This is the beginning of a special series titled, ...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 72
Mara Linaberger joins me to talk about the changes that families are facing as everyone finds themselves homeschooling during COVID. What are the opportunities for learning? Are you homeschooling or doing school-at-home? We discuss the effects that COVID could have on the education system and helpful tools for parents during this time. About Mara Mara Linaberger's essential belief is that each of us has chosen to be here on the planet at this moment in time for a specific reason - that we're all...
Apr 14, 2020•58 min•Season 4Ep. 71
Golda David is a teacher, former school principal and homeschooling mom. Golda is the homeschool facilitator for our school division’s homeschool program , supporting families in alternative education, homeschooling and unschooling. She is also our family’s personal homeschool facilitator. And no surprise, she is an advocate for self directed learning. Golda shares how she went from public school principal to homeschooling her son and running a program that is unique to our province. And she doe...
Mar 26, 2020•2 hr 30 min•Season 4Ep. 70
Monica Truong, unschooling mom and self directed learning advocate. In this episode Monica "schools" me on child-led democratic education , self directed learning and creating a culture of respect, trust and sovereignty. Democratic and Self Directed Monica Truong was born in Vietnam and came to Canada with her family as a refugee at the age of 6. She has a BSc in Chemistry and likes to joke that she works with the "chemistry" of people, as she has never worked in her field of study. Monica taugh...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Stacey Piercey has been an entrepreneur for over 15 years and a homeschool parent to 3 boys for over a decade. She is also the creator of Kids2Market , a program that teaches kids from ages 6-17 how to start a business with an idea they are passionate about. Stacey learned about unschooling even before she had kids. While teaching at a University in China, she met a 9 year old self directed learner that captured her attention. His name was Matt. Matt and his mom moved to China for teaching work....
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Season 4Ep. 68
