Resources

 

We’ve listed some of the resources that have informed and inspired our approach to self directed learning. We hope they help you explore some of the current thinking around best practices in education.

 

books

The Playbook for Self Directed Learning, by our founders Dr Tyler Thigpen, Dr Caleb Collier, Brittney Toles, and Amber Bryant

Unschooling Rules, by Clark Aldrich

The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, by Salman Khan

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, by Sir Ken Robinson

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, by Carol S. Dweck

Courage to Grow, by Laura Sandefer, co-founder of Acton Academy Austin

The Self-Driven Child, by William Stixrud, PhD & Ned Johnson

A More Beautiful Question (particularly Chapter 2), by Warren Berger

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter, by Howard Gardner 

Work Rules, by Laszlo Bock

articles

videos

High school dropout turned Harvard faculty talks about how a simple new way of thinking helps nurture individual potential. L. Todd Rose is co-founder and president of The Center for Individual Opportunity, an organization dedicated to providing leadership around the emerging new science of the individual and its implications for education, the workforce, and society.

The Myth of Average, Todd Rose

Uploaded by Education Technology Specialists (Edtechs) on 2016-03-06.

Imagine if We Invented School Today

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org.

Build a School in the Cloud, Sugata Mitra

There are two types of mindsets we can cultivate. One that embraces problems as opportunities to learn, and one that avoids them, often out of fear to fail. People that avoid conflicts can be described as having a fixed mindset. Those who see problems as interesting challenges have a growth mindset.

Growth v Fixed Mindsets

Grit: the Power of Passion + Perseverance, Angela Duckworth

Greenfield is a new school model designed by Achievement First - in partnership with Transcend - to develop the best prepared students in the world. A key component of Greenfield is the Dream Team, a community of champions who rally around every child to help them reach their greatest potential. To Learn More www.afgreenfieldschools.org www.transcendeducation.org

Dream Teams, Transcend + Achievement First

Kara Bobroff, Diane Tavenner and Bror Saxberg deliver the opening keynote for the iNACOL Symposium on "Personalized, Learner-Centered Innovations to Transform Lives and Communities." Learn more here: https://www.inacol.org/symposium/

iNACOL 2017, Diane Tavenner,

Most Likely To Succeed trailer