On this episode, Step Up For Students president Doug Tuthill talks to the director of a growing homeschooling group in South Florida. The 20 students Daumit’s group serves receive instruction from three traditionally credentialed teachers in a K-8 style, five-days-a-week learning environment. Daumit’s teachers have left the public and private systems in search of a different way they could express themselves as creative educators.
Tuthill and Daumit discuss how her group blurs the lines between homeschooling, micro-schools, learning pods and private schools, a phenomenon that likely will continue to redefine public education.
"I am not a head of school; I am not connected to the (Department of Education). I am not looking to do business as usual. The point is to create an environment where kids can be who they are ... Lots of kids can't be who they are in a public or private school."
EPISODE DETAILS:
· Daumit’s background as an educator and her disillusionment with No Child Left Behind legislation
· How her group’s curriculum gets to the “nuts and bolts” of how kids learn
· How the group has moved away from technology to focus on interactive, face-to-face collaborative group work
· Expansion opportunities and how to best serve the needs of different communities
