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1) Eight Kinds of Smart, Keynote with handouts by Dr. Thomas Armstrong

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How Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences can provide a powerful strategic plan through which all childrens' abilities can be highlighted and worked with to improve personal motivation, self-esteem, and academic achievement. View samples.

3) The Myth of the ADD /ADHD Child: Challenging the Growing Medicalization of Attention and Behavior in Our Classrooms, by Dr. Thomas Armstrong

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This workshop challenges the current use of the medical model to explain attention and behavioral differences in children. The first part looks at the problems with the ADD/ADHD paradigm, including criticisms of its assessments and treatments. The second part provides alternative ways of explaining behavior and attention difficulties, including gender differences, social and cultural factors, psychological influences, and styles of learning. The third part presents a number of non-medical strategies that parents and educators can use to help children attend and behave. View samples.

5) Weapons of Mass Instruction, Keynote by John Taylor Gatto

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Gatto links stories about individual initiative by drop-outs and others labeled "deficient" by school standards to the global social and economic changes we are going through. He asks, "Why are schools still considered so important when it is so obvious that technology, the arts, finance, and government have more than their share of competent employees and leaders who never graduated college or high school?" View samples.

7) Coping with Fear and Anxiety While Unschooling, Andy Migner - 1 CD

Unschooling, for many of us, is a roller coaster ride of trust and fear. When our bright-eyed curious child is glowing from the pleasure of a new discovery or accomplishment, we relax, certain, that in choosing to unschool, we made the right decision. But a week later, when that same child is at loose ends, the kids are all fighting, we've been challenged or criticized by a relative, (or even sometimes for no reason at all), we can fall into the pit of doubt; "Am I doing enough?", "Am I doing too much?", "Is this really what's best for my child?". In this interactive workshop you will learn tools and strategies for reducing anxiety so that you can spend more time trusting and enjoying both your child and "the ride".

8) The Price of Praise, Naomi Aldort - 2 CDs

Do you ever take actions that don't resonate with your own convictions in an attempt to please others? How would you like for your child (and yourself) to be free of such limiting dependency? In this workshop you will aquire the ability to express your enthusiasm for your child authentically and without stirring her direction or contradicting her inner experience, so she can be nobody but herself, confidently.

9) Panel: Taught Mother Tongue: Ivan Illich on Education, Pat Farenga, Moderator - 2 CDs

Gene Burkart, Joseph Mokos, and Matt Hern discuss the influence and insight of a man the Utne Reader described as one of the most important intellectuals of the 20th century. Illich wrote Deschooling Society in 1971 and he had a direct influence on John Holt's decision to embrace homeschooling. You will also learn about Illich's life and background as a child being raised in Nazi-occupied Austria, his work as a Catholic priest in the Bronx and Mexico during the fifties and sixties, and his ground-breaking work as a social critic, theologian, and teacher.

10) Individualizing Learning: Styles and Time Frames, Cindy Gaddis - 2 CDs

What, your homeschooled children aren't writing novels, solving advanced math problems, or winning spelling bees? Sometimes it seems like "being average" just isn't good enough for homeschoolers. We worry when our children are on different learning schedules than they are in school. Cindy will share with you how her three oldest (now teenaged) children have learned subjects such as reading, writing, math, science, geography, foreign language, history, spelling, and others, using their own learning styles and following their own unique time frames which formed their individualized education.

11) Schools that work with homeschoolers, Dr. Pat Montgomery - 1 CD

Progressive educators have a rich legacy of working humanely with youngsters of all ages. They describe it as holistic educating or democratic process or child-led learning, but whatever the words it means working with, not on, children. It's a frame of mind, a lifestyle, and a very effective way to communicate and enjoy learning all the time.

12) College Admissions for Homeschoolers, Loretta Heuer - 1 CD

Learn how to navigate the college (and art school) admissions process from a homeschooling parent who literally wrote the book on this subject. (Loretta is the author of The Homeschooler's Guide to Portfolios and Transcripts).

13) Possibility in the Face of Probability, Matt Hern - 1 CD

Children are not stock portfolios and cannot be handled as such, and canonical beliefs about what all kids need to know to grow up right are disastrous. We need to be asking what the children in front of us need to thrive: that is a constantly shifting, fluid question that can only be answered locally, familialy and individually. At the same time pedagogical freedom and political freedom are closely intertwined. The practice of freedom has to be interpreted as a social freedom to, rather than merely an individual freedom from, which is part of how Matt suggests the homelearning and deschooling movements are so important.

14) Grown Homeschoolers Panel, Sarabeth Matilisky, Moderator - 1 CD

A panel discussion featuring adults who were homeschooled. Some of them have their own children now – will they homeschool them? Have they found work worth doing as adults? What challenges and concerns did they encounter as adults who were homeschooled? What was college like for those who went? What was work like for those who didn't attend college? These, and many other questions, are discussed. Panelists: Stephanie D’Arcangelo-Dalmer, Eli Gerzon, Jenine Turner, Aidin Carey. Moderated by Sarabeth Matilisky, who is a grown homeschooler herself.

15) Unschooling Children with Special Needs, Cindy Gaddis - 1 CD

Have you wondered if unschooling can meet the needs of the special population? What if your child struggles with even learning how to speak, let alone learning his numbers? What if he doesn't independently learn easily from his environment? What about special services? Let's discuss and share ideas on how unschooling can be an ideal setting that utilizes each child's strengths and learning style. (Special needs in this workshop will specifically address serious mental disabilities such as moderately affected children with autism, Down Syndrome, mental retardation, multiple handicaps, etc.).

16) Unschooling the Academically Gifted, Meredith Warshaw - 1 CD

Many parents are daunted by the thought of homeschooling their gifted children, especially if the child has special needs such as learning differences, Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, etc.  In fact, homeschooling these children can be an exciting and liberating experience, giving children the opportunity to soar in areas of strength while not being held back by areas of relative weakness while allowing parents to enjoy their children while learning together. We will discuss frequent parent concerns such as "Do I know enough to homeschool my gifted child?," "I'm not a special ed teacher - how can I cope with my child's special needs?," "How can I meet my child's social needs?"  In addition, we will discuss  the myriad resources available both locally and online.

17) Learning Disabilities Panel: Issues Professionals Struggle With, Pat Farenga, Moderator 1 - CD

Panelists: Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Dr. Richard Falzone, Dr. Robert Kay, Meredith Warshaw, Dr. Ken Jacobson debate the merits and problems of labeling children, defining LD, power struggles children have with authority figures, and many other issues.

18) Learning Centers for Teens: How they work and how they are sustained.

The nuts and bolts of starting and running a teen learning center. Matt Hern founded and operates the Purple Thistle Learning Center in Vancouver, British Columbia and Ken Danford founded and operates North Star: Self-directed Learning for Teens in Hadley, MA. Together they dispense their hard-earned advice on this new frontier.

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