Status Update...The Beach School Welcomes the First TBS Kids!

Our first enrolment push has ended with the successful registration of nine kids. We welcome them all, and their families, and look forward to all of us getting to know each other over the coming months.

Welcome:

Max, 6
Amber, 13
Anastasia, 9
Sophia, 6
Sophie, 6
Sarah, 12
Frances, 10
Stephen, 7
Kurtis, 10
 

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Playing For an Education: An Insiders View to Student Directed Learning

Sivia Sadofsky is a former Sudbury Valley School student, who spoke to an audience of about 50 people in February on behalf of The Beach School. These are her speaker notes.

I want to start this evening with a bit of background for you all on why I am presenting to you tonight. My name is Debra Sivia Sadofsky, (please call me Sivia). I am a 39 year old professional in the high-tech industry, I work as an e-learning implementation project manager for Sun Microsystems, within their education division. I live here in Toronto and have lived in Canada for about 18 years. I grew up mostly in the suburbs of Boston, and I spent the majority of my primary and secondary education years at The Sudbury Valley School in Framingham Massachusetts - this is what I am here to discuss.
 

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A Perfect Education? Definitions, Debate, and Directions

Sponsored by The Beach School

The Beach School is hosting a panel discussion on Thursday, June 5, at the University of Toronto about various aspects of education with the general theme "What is the purpose of education?"

The participants on this panel represent a spectrum of perspectives and experiences in education which will provide an interesting discussion and debate around a number of issues including learning and learning environments, how people process information and acquire skills and knowledge.

Confirmed panellists include John O'Leary, President of Frontier College, Wendy Priesnitz, editor of Natural Life and Life Learning magazines and Michael Reist, veteran separate school teacher.

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