| Digital Gift Ideas from AERO |
If you are looking to order from our selection of over 150 of the best education books and need an item by December 25th, order immediately! We will be shipping titles tomorrow, Saturday and Monday morning to do our best in getting you your books by the 25th. While we can't make guarantees, we'll try to get everyone their books in time! If you havn't seen it already, our clearance section still has some great finds to browse as well!
There are two additional great gift ideas that you can receive immediately!
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| Community & Education Interview Series: Riane Eisler |
 Riane Eisler is the author of The Chalice and the Blade, Tomorrow's Children, and contributed an essay to AERO's anthology, Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories.
Riane Eisler delivered a talk, "From Domination to Partnership: Transforming Education and Society" at the 8th annual AERO Conference. Watch this talk for free at the bottom of her interview. |
| What is Community in Education? |
by Jerry Mintz
Communities are associations of human beings who share some common interest.
According to this definition, communities can manifest in endless configurations, and they do.
Read AERO director Jerry Mintz's entire article online here.
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| Educating for Human Greatness |
 A Framework for Redesigning the Public School System
by Anthony Dallmann-Jones Phd and Lynn Stoddard
"Everybody is a genius! But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Einstein
Every child is a genius! There we have said it: The Biggest Secret repressed and denied by our society. Question: Why would anyone want to keep such a wonderful thing like that a secret? Perhaps if we imagine the following scenario for a few seconds we can answer our own question: Consider the prospect of teaching 25 or 30 kids all year who are smarter than you are, or administering a school of 1,000 children, each more talented than the administrator. That would easily create a reason for the subconscious mind to put on blinders.
Read the entire article here.
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| Inciting Education, One Campaign at a Time |
by Jaime R. Wood
The summer of 2012 was my first AERO conference. I'd just met Alan Burnce, the founder of Open Road Learning Community for Teens, a few months before and his idea of building a North Star replica in Portland, Oregon, was just coming to life. I was on his Board of Directors, and we wanted to go to the AERO conference to join with folks from all over the world who were working to innovate education and to be inspired by speakers like Yaacov Hecht and Ken Robinson. Those few days were filled with so much inspiration and positive energy, but a single question arose again and again: We want to build this new learning option in our community, but where will we find the money?
Read the entire article here.
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| Alternative Education Job Opportunities |
We have recently posted many new job opportunities added to our website! Take a look at the new opportunities here.
Are you a member?, send us your job ads here: [email protected]
Want to list your ad?, become a member here and posting is free!
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Thank you for your ongoing support. With your help, we will make learner-centered alternatives available to everyone!
Sincerely,
Jerry Mintz
Executive Director
Alternative Education Resource Organization
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