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...class to ‘travel’ to a different place where they can imagine all of this happening and are allow to relax. (I even gave a two-minute meditation lesson on one occasion with some excellent results.) Try to empty any images by imagining a blank sheet of paper. Focusing on the picture helps them to concentrate (e.g. ask them what colour their shape is). Make it...

...class of nine- and ten-year-olds in Toronto, Canada. The curriculum focus is biology. The classroom has been carefully organised to mirror the way in which a real adult scientific research community operates at the University of Toronto's zoological department, local to the school. Over a ten-week period, the young students are given the opportunity to become immersed in...

...classes their young people regularly did to give what they often describe as a ‘healthy life-work balance'. _Most people who don't home ed just don’t understand how it works. For us it was definitely not like school, it was about finding your passion, figuring out what choices/interests our children wanted for themselves – de-schooling, so not sitting doing work...