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The Alternative Education Resource Organization
The Alternative Education Resource Organization is the primary resource for families looking for educational alternatives, school/resource center starters, and alternative education researchers.
AERO's mission is to help connect individuals and groups and share ideas related to alternative education. Our goal is to help people around the world experience learner-centered education.
AERO's mission is to help connect individuals and groups and share ideas related to alternative education. Our goal is to help people around the world experience learner-centered education.
Green Schools Initiative
The Green Schools Initiative was founded in 2004 by parent-environmentalists who were shocked by how un-environmental their kids’ schools were and mobilized to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools in the U.S. We believe it is essential to protect children’s health – at school and in the world beyond school – and we work to catalyze and support “green” actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to:
* Eliminate toxics
* Use resources sustainably
* Create green spaces and buildings
* Serve healthy food, and teach stewardship
* Eliminate toxics
* Use resources sustainably
* Create green spaces and buildings
* Serve healthy food, and teach stewardship
Green Education Foundation
Green Education Foundation believes that what is healthy for the environment is also healthy for kids and youth, and their goal is to promote and enhance environmental education in children and youth, and to make progress in achieving a more sustainable world.
Earth Day Network
Earth Day Network's successful history of working with teachers, PTAs, students and school administrators has led us to develop a long term, national campaign on green schools.
Green Schools
Green-Schools is an international environmental education programme and award scheme that promotes and acknowledges long-term, whole-school action for the environment
organicARTS
An arts and education center situated on an organic farm. They offer educational visits, a community garden, a clay workshop, walkthroughs, open days, and much more!
Mind Mapping
A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, colour and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquely powerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the infinite expanses of your brain. The Mind Map can be applied to every aspect of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance human performance.
Challenge Day
Our vision is that every child lives in a world where they feel safe, loved and celebrated.
The Challenge Day mission is to provide youth and their communities with experiential programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth, and full expression.
The Challenge Day mission is to provide youth and their communities with experiential programs that demonstrate the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth, and full expression.
PowerSave Schools Program
The Green Schools program helps schools use energy efficiently through changes in the behavior of building users and changes in operational and maintenance routines. Through these basic changes in attitudes and behaviors Green Schools has achieved up to 25% savings in one year for an individual school.
Green School Buildings
Green schools cost less to operate, freeing up resources to truly improve students education. Their carefully planned acoustics and abundant daylight make it easier and more comfortable for students to learn. Their clean indoor air cuts down sick days and gives our children a head start for a healthy, prosperous future. And their innovative design provides a wealth of hands-on learning opportunities.
Green Schools Alliance
The GSA started because ONE little boy wanted to celebrate Earth Day in his first grade class at Allen-Stevenson, and because ONE mother wanted to make EVERY day Earth Day for her son.
Bali's Green School Video
Here is a school in Bali, Indonesia designed to have the smallest environmental impact of any school. The structures are made of bamboo, the kids grow food in a permaculture garden, they use composting toilets and electricity is provided from a hydro electric system. They are a private school, offering nursery through primary school that teaches an original version of the Waldorf pedagogy, pioneered by Rudolf Steiner. There is no air conditioning, no rigid desk setting. Although academic standards are established to meet international private school standards, the kids are learning and creating a green curriculum as they go, sometimes taking initiatives like going paperless for a semester!
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Classpert
Classpert.com was designed to help people find the courses that most suit their professional and personal interests. Find more than 150,000 online courses and MOOCs from the world's top platforms. Compare all relevant information before deciding which course to choose.
edX
EdX was created for students and institutions that seek to transform themselves through cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy, and rigorous courses.
Through our institutional partners, the xConsortium, along with other leading global members, we present the best of higher education online, offering opportunity to anyone who wants to achieve, thrive, and grow.As innovators and experimenters, we want to share what we discover. The edX platform is available as open source. By conducting and publishing significant research on how students learn, we will empower and inspire educators around the world and promote success in learning.
Our aim is to become a leading resource for learners and learning worldwide by staying focused on the goals and principles set forth when forming edX:
Through our institutional partners, the xConsortium, along with other leading global members, we present the best of higher education online, offering opportunity to anyone who wants to achieve, thrive, and grow.As innovators and experimenters, we want to share what we discover. The edX platform is available as open source. By conducting and publishing significant research on how students learn, we will empower and inspire educators around the world and promote success in learning.
Our aim is to become a leading resource for learners and learning worldwide by staying focused on the goals and principles set forth when forming edX:
Open Educational Resources
Welcome to the Archive’s library of Open Educational Resources and university lectures. This library contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China. Many of these lectures are available for download.
Best Free Children's Ebooks
This is a listing of 234 websites that legally offer free ebooks for children to read.
Open Library
The World's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
Khan Academy
A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.Khan Academy is an organization on a mission. We're a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
Alternative Education Resource Organization
The Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 by education expert Jerry Mintz to advance learner-centered approaches to education. AERO is considered by many to be the primary hub of communications and support for educational alternatives around the world.
How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education Video
As tuition costs continue to rise, it seems counterintuitive that professors at top universities would give away their courses for free. But that's exactly what they're doing, on web-based platforms known as "Massive Open Online Courses." Spencer Michels reports on how a boom in online learning could change higher education.
Take the world's best courses, online, for free.
Learn from 335 courses, from 62 universities. We are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We envision a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Our technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.
Avatar EPC
Contributing to the Creation of an Enlightened Planetary Civilization,Avatar is the most powerful, purest self-development program available. It is a series of experiential exercises that enables you to rediscover your self and align your consciousness with what you want to achieve. You will experience your own unique insights and revelations. ItÆs you finding out about you. Avatar is a nine-day self-empowerment training delivered by a world-wide network of licensed Avatar Masters. Over 50,000 graduates from 65 countries, are enjoying the benefits of Avatar*.
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Alison
ALISON* is the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills. ALISON provides high-quality, engaging, interactive multimedia courseware for certification and standards-based learning.The mission of ALISON is to enable anyone, anywhere, to educate themselves for free via interactive, self-paced multimedia. It is our belief that through ALISON, the cost of access to high-quality education can be removed.
Innovative Schools
Edutopia
The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is dedicated to improving the K-12 learning process by documenting, disseminating, and advocating innovative, replicable, and evidence-based strategies that prepare students to thrive in their future education, careers, and adult lives.Check out their huge database on successful schools for blueprints to improve yours!
Buckminster Fuller Institute
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is a diverse group of individuals committed to a sustainable future. Founded in 1983 and inspired by the design science principles pioneered by the late Buckminster Fuller, BFI has served as an information resource to students, educators, authors, designers and concerned citizens working to advance humanity’s options for success.
Clearwater School
What happens when children direct their own learning? They become creative confident capable people. The Seattle Sudbury Valley School for ages 4-19 years old.
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
How would you like to have a waterfall in your classroom, or 750 white-tailed deer, or a million blooming wildflowers,or the largest collection of log buildings in the East?
You can have all of these resources and more when your class spends a week at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, a year -round environmental education center in the heart of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
You can have all of these resources and more when your class spends a week at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, a year -round environmental education center in the heart of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Pickles Animation
We are the most reputed Animation Training Centre in Delhi, India. Our team of industry experience faculties are experts in turning the students career in right direction. Thats why we registered inTop Ten Animation Institute in Delhi, India, Our curriculums are set to driven quality training as best garphics designing institutes orbest web designing institute in delhi, India, but every time our team need to enhance students skills so that we registered as best animation institute all over the world..
Keystone High School
The Keystone School is an online high school and middle school that serves students who need flexibility. Whether your student is homeschooled, pursues a career in sports or entertainment, travels the world, prefers to take courses on his or her own schedule, or wants more teacher interaction, Keystone is a great option. We offer more than 170 teacher-supported online high school and middle school courses. Students can enroll at any time, either full time to earn an accredited online high school diploma or part time to supplement a traditional school or homeschool curriculum.
Lyric
LYRIC brings LGBTQQ youth together to build a peer-based community that empowers them to end isolation; create a progressive queer youth voice; increase well-being and self-esteem; and change the communities in which they live. LYRIC accomplishes this by offering peer-based education, advocacy, recreation, information, and leadership opportunities.
Landmark Education
An amazing communication forum which takes us on a weekend long ride through our childhood and characters that we use to help us though life for the purpose of realizing the journey we are on in an expident manner. after the first forum is the advanced forum and the n the SELP or self expression and leadership program. these three forums compose to curriculum for living.
The Open University
The Open University is a world leader in modern distance learning, the pioneer of teaching and learning methods which enable people to achieve their career and life goals studying at times and in places to suit them.The OU’s mission is to be open to people, places, methods and ideas. Find out about our open admissions policy and services for disabled students, how we are widening participation in education and making learning resources available free of charge - without sacrificing quality.
National Outdoor Leadership School
NOLS, the premier teacher of outdoor skills and leadership, offers courses 10 days to full semesters in the world's most spectacular wilderness classrooms.
North Star Center
North Star is a center for self-directed learning and community-based education functioning like a YMCA or other member-based organization. Member teens choose from among a wide array of educational options depending on their needs and interests. Founded in 1996 by two middle school teachers, we are now in our 16th year of serving teenagers who prefer to pursue their educations outside of traditional schooling.
Open Education Database
We've compiled the Open Education Database (OEDb) to help ambitious or prospective students find the most convenient, valuable, and relevant education programs to fulfill their academic and career objectives. Adults going back to school in pursuit of a higher degree, high school graduates curious about starting a college program, and nontraditional students in search of online education options are all welcome to survey our comprehensive reviews and rankings of online colleges and degree programs. With our resources, picking the perfect school is easy.
Play Mountain Place
Play Mountain Place is a progressive alternative humanistic experiential play-based preschool and elementary school located in Los Angeles, California.For over 60 years, we have encouraged children to discover the joys of learning through their own interest, at their own pace, all while being supported with the deepest respect for their dignity and worth. Children from ages three to eleven play, explore, and learn, supported by an organic curriculum that fosters self-motivation, critical thinking, social responsibility, and compassion for others.This website is designed to help communicate the philosophy of our unique school. We’re delighted that you have chosen to learn more about this special place.
Puget Sound Community School
The Puget Sound Community School's web page is an example of how one school is making use of the World Wide Web. It not only includes links to other educational resources, but includes links to student and staff home pages, the school newsletter, and is used to disseminate information to enrolled students and their families. PSCS believes the best education ensures the freedom of students of all ages to think for themselves and to control their own destinies, structuring their time and activities as they best see fit.
Ross School
The Ross School is an independent, coeducational school whose mission in this era of monumental change is to prepare children for meaningful lives and leadership in the global community. Traditionally, the educational environment has remained isolated from mainstream society; for example, up until recently, the most advanced technology in the classroom was the light bulb. Now digital technology is creating an interactivity which places the individual at the center of instantaneous global communication. This holds huge potential for education. At the Ross School, we are using technology to create a new kind of classroom that integrates our children into a whole world of teachers, scholars and international peers. In moving forward, we are interested in gleaning the best from the past while charting a course whose object is the future.
Schumacher College
an international centre for ecological studies which welcomes course participants from all over the world, from a wide range of ages and backgrounds. The College runs short residential courses on ecological issues, led by teachers and writers with an international reputation. It also runs a one-year MSc in Holistic Science.
Second Foundation School
A democratically run K-12 school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 40+ years in operation, Second Foundation School was founded in 1970 by a group of visionary teachers. They wanted to create a learning environment where each student’s unique abilities are given space to flourish and their learning styles are respected.
Stonesoup School
Stonesoup School was founded in 1971, and is the oldest alternative school in Florida. It was established to offer a supportive boarding school environment where students could explore their own interests, both academic and non-academic, at their own pace and level.
Summerhill School
A.S Neill's Summerhill School, a co-educational boarding school in Suffolk, England, is the original alternative 'free' school. Founded in 1921, it continues to be an influential model for progressive, democratic education around the world. Enjoy the site.
Sunrise Center, Inc.
Caring for our planet, offering workshops such as: Caring for Our Planet, Caring for Ourselves: Personal Sustainability" A Very Special meeting place Available To rent. The Sunrise center has a wonderful 550 Square foot room available.
The Circle School
From their philosophy statement, "We believe in the wisdom of each person to know what's best for him or her. We believe that in maturing we grow toward that wisdom discovering, accepting, and becoming ourselves. When we talk of 'wholeness' we mean the fullest expression of that wisdom inour lives. We believe that we can best support the maturing of persons by modeling the highest values we know, and offering exposure, resources, and guidance in the exercise of body, mind, and spirit."
Albany Free School
For a long time our unofficial motto has been: "Never a dull moment, always a dull roar." But perhaps we should also borrow the Stork Family School in the Ukraine's motto, "First love, then teach." For we have always placed the greatest emphasis on the fostering of loving, caring relationships. Observant visitors frequently comment on how closely connected the students seem, how carefully they look out for each other. The visitors note the brightness in the kids' eyes, the spontaneous joy, the natural exuberance. This is how children appear who are secure in knowing they are loved, and who are free at all times to return that love.
The Hoboken Charter School
The mission of the Hoboken Charter School reflects our belief that a successful educational experience can only take place when attention is given to the development of the whole child -- a break with the traditional concept of schooling. We envision a community composed of learners of all ages that fosters a spirit of supportive interdependence, where individuals can grow in a nurturing, compassionate environment that reflects the history and diversity of the larger Hoboken community.
The Meeting School
Founded in 1957, The Meeting School is a co-ed boarding and day school located on a historic working farm for students in grades 9-12. The Meeting School also offers a post-graduate year. We prepare students to meet the opportunities of college and life. Students engage in learning through a unique combination of traditional classroom and hands-on educational experiences. For example, our American history course builds skills in research, evaluation of different points of view, and presentation skills using our historic structures on campus as a learning laboratory. Our Farm Science class requires students to apply the book learning of biology directly to the life cycle of plants and animals on the farm, and our algebra courses collect data from egg production and plant yields to build graphs and model equations.
The Met
A small high school in which each student has an individualized curriculum and all students are involved in internships in the real world. There are several Met Schools located through Providence.
The New School
Education for the courageous, inquisitive, and independent-minded. The New School is a coeducational, private, day school in Newark, Delaware, USA, enrolling children ages 6 to 19 who are willing to take responsibility for their own actions and education. The New School is a liberty-based school democratically governed by its students and staff. Learning is self directed, animated by interest and grounded in personal responsibility.
The New School of Monmouth County
A small, private, ungraded elementary school in Holmdel, New Jersey. It is a family school with innovative teachers and much parent involvement. Up to 20 students are enrolled in each of three "family" age groups: with sometimes a 4 year age range. The emphasis is on each child as an individual learning how to learn, and how to be a responsible member of the group in an informal, non-competitive atmosphere.
The Sudbury Valley School
t Sudbury Valley School, students from preschool through high school age explore the world freely, at their own pace and in their own unique ways. They learn to think for themselves, and learn to use Information Age tools to unearth the knowledge they need from multiple sources. They develop the ability to make clear logical arguments, and deal with complex ethical issues. Through self-initiated activities, they pick up the basics; as they direct their lives, they take responsibility for outcomes, set priorities, allocate resources, and work with others in a vibrant community.
Waldorf Schools
Waldorf education was conceived by Rudolf Steiner. He believed that modern Western society had placed too much emphasis on external, matrialistic values, at the expense of the imaginative, creative innermost spirit of the human being.