michael hilbert

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@HippyMomPhD @Cupolaacademy

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@rebelEducator @Cupolaacademy - self-directed learning community. They go to programs three days a week on campus.

[Claire Honeycutt | ClarifiED 🕊️❤️ @HippyMomPhD]

Kids don't hate learning, they hate being forced to learn

Give kids something they love & they'll beg you to work on it day & night

Our job is to put amazing things in their path & let them find their future❤️

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@HippyMomPhD I like Peter Gray but prefer John Holt.

[Cupola Academy @Cupolaacademy]

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[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@HippyMomPhD Agreed. One of the great things about homeschooling, more time with my young people.

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@piper4missouri This is a remarkably inaccurate view of homeschooling. Most parents utilize a wealth of resources to facilitate their young peoples’ education. A more accurate statement is that you are unwilling to facilitate their development at home - I believe that you are qualified.

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[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@rebelEducator My wife’s parents were pioneers in the homeschooling movement in PA — we both just wanted to spend more time with our young people, realized that they could have more freedom and flexibility within a community of self-directed learners and still get the resources/social aspects.

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@schlagetown I see that you are in Brooklyn, you should check out @recursecenter — an unschooling based programming organization with some incredible ideas about education (and run by my brother-in-law).

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@schlagetown Would love to chat, simpler to do in person but feel free to check out @Cupolaacademy (I’m a co-director there). My family has been involved in the unschooling movement since the ‘70s. If you haven’t reading some Holt is always a good place to start.

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@Homeschool_LLC Flexibility and time with my young people

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@adamlastowka Wasn’t this a Stephen question?

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@thejasonkantor I think this is an example of becoming an effective communicator - being able to express why you like something or don’t like something certainly helps in group dynamics and problem solving. We use a lot of Process Conscious dialogue with our teens, so helpful.

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

@thejasonkantor I run a homeschool resource center @Cupolaacademy and we have a graduation ceremony. The facilitators give Word Presents to the graduates and we have a slide show of each graduates educational path. I pick out songs that have personal meaning to our relationship.

[Jason @anenglishteachr]

If we really want the youth to be intrinsically motivated

To have a deep love of learning

To be self-directed and self-guided

And to have goals that they want to work hard toward

Their why has to be THEIR why

It can't be too heavily influenced by us adults

We can impart our knowledge and guide them but ultimately

They have to discover their own why - they have to come to that on their own

They need the space and freedom to discover their whys

Us adults can help them with the hows

[Jason @anenglishteachr]

I got a question the other day about what a parent should do if their child wants to learn something but they don't have the skills or the knowledge to teach them it

And the answer to this has helped me be so much more successful with the kids and teens I work with

It's you learn together with your child

Yes its really that simple

You don’t need a fancy degree, tons of technical training or anything else

There are obviously exceptions to this but you would be surprised at how far you can get simply by shifting your perspective

The idea that just because someone is a teacher or a supposed authority on subject so they MUST know more or be more capable is ridiculous

I have little to no technical abilities and the teen I homeschool and myself built a DC motor together completely from scratch

When he proposed the idea to me I didn't have the slighted clue on how to do that

But we figured it out together and learned how to do it with one another

We built an e-bike as well as and started working on a go-kart

We built a pizza oven amongst over things

And with each one I didn't have the slightest clue on how to do those things when we first started but him and I learned together

So by going through this process with your child you are not only bonding with them

You are showing them how to learn

You’re showing them that just because we are the adults and perceived authority figures

We don't necessarily always have all of the answers and more importantly its okay to not always have the answers

You are teaching them that we never stop learning and learning is a forever journey

That is one of the best things you could teach your child

So don't be afraid, scared or nervous

You can teach your child way more than you think

[michael hilbert @michaelshilbert]

Putting a mullet on a toilet paper roll. You can do anything with laser cutters! Thanks @STEMCampEdu!

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Amazing things we can do with laser cutters! @FluxSpace_io #STEMinPA #STEM