Rock on, South Florida Innovative Educators Network Suncoasters!

Nice Miami television news coverage of Primer Microschools' impressive progress and important work in South Florida (and growing to serve new communities). This movement keeps growing, evolving and innovating behind compelling leaders like these.
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Big Education has sold us the notion that schooling is a business conducted in 50-year old buildings, which cost $40-$100+ million, requiring an overall taxpayer investment costing 4.5% of US GDP to sustain. Microschooling is an alternative focused on the children we serve.

So much of mainstream education dialog focuses on teaching...in microschools, the conversation focuses on learning, in effect, shifting the spotlight from the instructor to the student.

Microschools are incredibly unique in giving the learner direct agency over and ownership of…

'But what if the opposite were true? What if schools empowered children to flourish?' Great article by one of the microschooling movement's more brilliant visionaries, Tyler S. Thigpen.
gettingsmart.com/2024/04/30/bui…

Reasons families (and educators) love their microschools - #247

More families come to microschools from district-operated public schools than were previously homeschoolers.

Families are coming to microschooling from traditional public school settings, among others, and are finding all sorts of ways to thrive.

Read the full 2024 American Microschools Sector Analysis here:
microschoolingcenter.org/sectoranalysis…

Want to better understand the American microschooling movement in 10 minutes? This conversation I had recently with the always-informative Mike Ferguson American Viewpoints with Mike Ferguson offers lots to consider.
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Exciting that microschools are still signing on to this Principles for Microschooling statement every week. Well over 110 microschools and growing. Let us know if you'd like to add yours.
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Microschooling has arrived in the mainstream of America, where understandings are taking root and this movement is feeling right at home.

Great article about how choice leads to better civic outcomes and a more diverse delivery m9del for leaning. Patrick Wolf
Don Soifer EdChoice Jenny Clark Mike McShane Jeanne Allen Matthew Ladner
Adam Peshek
Learning More About School Choice via @forbes forbes.com/sites/mikemcsh…

Where Mike McShane, dean of education researchers, discusses his favorite trends for the microschooling sector in the Center’s new 2024 Microschooling Sector Analysis.
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Powerful profile of the compellingly innovative work Primer Microschools is leading in South Florida, Phoenix and elsewhere.
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For microschool founders, establishing and working with your board can feel like tricky business. Thoughts and observations to help you manage this important work from Don Soifer.
microschoolingcenter.org/news-blog/board

Microschools are places where all children are supported to thrive.

Read the full 2024 American Microschools Sector Analysis here:
microschoolingcenter.org/sectoranalysis…

Thank you, Stand Together, for this helpful summary of findings from the National National Microschooling Center Center's 2024 American Microschools Sector Analysis. And for the great picture of a favorite microschool founder in action.
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Today’s microschooling sector trends somewhat younger, with more microschools serving elementary school ages than others. For the full 2024 American Microschools Sector Analysis (free), go to:
microschoolingcenter.org/sectoranalysis…

Microschool founders showed up strong this weekend at the National Hybrid Schools Conference in Atlanta, and we had a ball bringing our movement building work to friends old and new. Huge congrats Eric Wearne, and welcome to all our new member microschools!