What Is a Tribe?

by Lon WoodburyNovember 16, 2011

When social media groups use the term “tribe,” are they saying they want closer more solid relationships?

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Why Do Children Learn?

by Lon WoodburyNovember 2, 2011

In educating children, maybe we should start with the Democratic Education belief that students are curious and want to learn, instead of the prevalent public school view that students must be forced to learn?:

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Educating the Female Brain

by Lon WoodburyOctober 25, 2011

Jane Samuel and Elizabeth Guamaccia, with Auldern Academy, North Carolina, talk about how the growth of the female brain starts it on its unique growth pattern almost from conception which results in significant differences in what females and males need in schools and their lives as they grow up.

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How Psychology Views Human Nature

by Lon WoodburyAugust 23, 2011

Positive Youth Development (PYD) is based partly on a Positive Psychology that focuses on strengths in people, rather than traditional psychology that focuses on deficits that need treatment.

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School and Programs Just For the Money?

by Lon WoodburyAugust 10, 2011

Red flags that might mean the owners of a private parent choice residential school or program might have money as too high a priority.

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