Articles

What Believing in the Possibilities Can Do For Learning and Teaching – Thom Markham

A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves – Eleanor Beardsley, NPR

5 Ways To Encourage Kids To Grow Up To Be Innovators – Fast Company

No Books, No Classes, No Problem: These Students Teach Themselves – Joseph Williams

What We Mean When We Talk About Unschooling – LinkedIn.com

The Tyranny Of Compulsory Schooling – Films For Action

Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose – Bruce Smith, Alpine Valley School

Step by Step: Designing Personalized Learning Experiences For Students – Katrina Schwartz

Behold: the two absolutely worst arguments against homeschooling – The Matt Walsh Blog – Matt Walsh

How to Get Into Harvard – David A. Graham

Why Google Won’t Hire You – Steven Mazie

Schooling the World: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning – Carol Black

A Playful Path – Peter Gray

Bard’s Better Admissions Application – Rebecca Shuman

Don’t Go Back to School: How to Fuel the Internal Engine of Learning – Maria Popova

Harnessing Children’s Natural Ways of Learning – Luba Vangelova

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses – Joshua Davis

Brainology: Transforming Students’ Motivation to Learn – Carol Dweck

Survey of Unschoolers – Peter Gray

The Danger of Back to School – Peter Gray

Videos

What If We Trusted You? – A great talk by Jerry Michalski about how traditional schools are set up around the belief that children do not want to learn.

Do Schools Kill Creativity? – Famous talk from Sir Ken Robinson.

3 Basic Roles of Education – What is the most basic and fundamental role of our education system? Talk by Salman Asif Siddiqui with English subtitles

The Crisis of Knowledge – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

What Schools Don't Want You to Know!  – John Taylor Gatto

Education and Children  – John Holt

Websites & Blogs

Well Trained Mind - Homeschooling Help  

Unschooling Support - Community, support and podcasts  

Agile Learning Centers – Great new concept around democratic schools.  They help the students set intentions, collaborate, and thrive in their democratic self-directed learning environments

Lively Learning Lab – Offers homeschool and other ala carte classings and offerings in Burlington, KY

Home-school.com – Lots of good information for homeschoolers

Living Joyfully – great site with lots of great content regarding unschooling and how it works on a daily basis

Just Add Light and Stir - Inspiration for unschooling parents

Alternatives to School - Expert contributors and people passionate about self directed learning offering in depth information

Books

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk  – Adele Faber/ Elaine Mazlish
• Siblings without Rivalry  – Adele Faber/ Elaine Mazlish
• How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School  – Adele Faber/ Elaine Mazlish
• Beyond Discipline  – Alfie Kohn
• What does it mean to be well educated?  – Alfie Kohn
• Punished By Rewards  – Alfie Kohn
• Unconditional Parenting  – Alfie Kohn
• The Schools Our Children Deserve  – Alfie Kohn
• Unplugged  – Arianna Fielding
• Made to stick  – Chip and Dan Heath
• Read Right  – Dee Tedlock
• Don’t be Sad  – Dr. Aid al-Qarni
• Between Parent and Child  – Dr. Haim Ginott
• The Learning Disability Myth  – Dr. Robin Pauc
• The Brain Food Plan  – Dr. Robin Pauc
• Parents Effectiveness Training (P.E.T)  – Dr. Thomas Gordan
• The Power of Mindful Learning  – Ellen Langer
• Teacher Effectiveness Training  – Dr. Thomas Gordan
• Insult to Intelligence  – Frank Smith
• The One Thing  – Gary Keller
• Purification of the Heart  – Hamza Yusuf
• Frames of Mind  – Howard Gardner
• The Unschooled Mind  – Howard Gardner
• Deschooling Society  – Ivan Illich
• Cure  – Jo Merchant
• Curious Minds  – John Brockman
• Teach Your Own  – John Holt
• How Children Learn  – John Holt
• How Children Fail  – John Holt
• Instead of Education  – John Holt
• Dumbing Us Down  – John Taylor Gatto
• A Different Kind of Teacher  – John Taylor Gatto
• Weapons of Mass Instruction  – John Taylor Gatto
• The Invisible Influence  – Jonah Berger
• Are We Having Fun Yet?: The 16 Secrets of Happy Parenting  – Kay Willis/ Maryann Bucknum
• The Element  – Ken Robinson
• Creative Schools  – Ken Robinson
• Study Smarter, Not Harder  – Kevin Paul
• First Things First  – Khalid Baig
• Tipping point  – Malcolm Gladwell
• Parents who love reading, Kids who don't  – Mary Leonhardt
• The Secret of a Successful Family  – Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
• What money can't buy  – Michael Sandel
• The end of education  – Neil Postman
• The Thinking Life  – P.M Forni
• The Courage to Teach  – Parker Palmer
• Free to Learn  – Peter Gray
• What Our Children Teach Us  – Piero Ferrucci
• The Last Lecture  – Randy Pausch
• Vitamin N – Richard Louv
• Coloring Outside the Lines  – Roger Schank
• The Art of the Good Life  – Rolf Dobelli
• The Art of Thinking Clearly  – Rolf Dobelli
• Rethinking schools  – Susan Wise
• Early Childhood Education  – Tina Bruce
• What Great Teachers do Differently  – Todd Whitaker
• Verbal Intelligence  – Tony Buzan
• The Tyranny of Language in Education  – Zubeida Mustafa
• The Dilemma Of Muslim Psychologists  – Malik Badri