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Interviews with self-directed learners, innovative educators, and young people blazing their own paths through life. Hosted by Blake Boles. Visit Off-Trail Learning @ offtraillearning.com. F...
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Blake Boles on Adventure
Guest host Zen Zenith returns to interview Blake about his obsession with adventure. What exactly makes an adventure? How is adventure conne...
Chris Balme on Finding the Magic in Middle School
Chris Balme (chrisbalme.com) is the founding head of school of The Millennium School and the author of Finding the Magic in Middle School. A...
Liam Nilsen on Reading
Liam Nilsen (https://liam.media) is a designer and educator based in Åårhus, Denmark. He’s a former member of the LEGO Idea Studio, the foun...
Grace Llewellyn on The Teenage Liberation Handbook, 3rd Edition
Grace Llewellyn is the author of The Teenage Liberation Handbook, the founder of Not Back to School Camp, a one-time middle school English t...
Takeru Nagayoshi on Walking Away from "Teacher of the Year"
Takeru “TK” Nagayoshi was an AP English and Research teacher for seven years. In 2020 he was named Massachusetts Teacher of the Year—yet aft...
Jack Schott on Why Summer Camps Matter
Shortly after college, Jack Schott hit the road for two years to visit over 200 summer camps across the United States. He then co-founded a...
Nate Singer on Questioning Education at Berkeley and Learning through Entrepreneurship
Nate Singer is the Managing Director of Mission Holdings, a father of two, and the guy who first got me interested in alternative education....
Michelle Bruce on Boatschooling
Michelle Bruce is a mother of 4 who (along with her husband John) has been “boatschooling” since 2013. We discuss the evolution of her eclec...
Seth Frey on Self-Governed Youth Communities
Seth Frey (enfascination.com) is a professor of Communication at UC Davis who focuses on the science of self-governance. We discuss our shar...
Manue on The Homeschooling Situation in France
Manue is a representative in the South of France of Les Enfants D’Abord (lesenfantsdabord.org), a home education advocacy association which...
Nick Bergson-Shilcock on the Recurse Center
Nick Bergson-Shilcock is the CEO and co-founder of the Recurse Center (recurse.com), a self-directed and community-driven educational retrea...
Anna Smith and Mara Donahoe on Home & Hybrid Education
Anna Smith and Mara Donahoe are the co-founders (with Natasha Morisawa) of the National Association of Home & Hybrid Education (homeandhybri...
Lilli and Elena on Biking Through Europe at Age 19
While biking through the south of France, I met Lilli and Elena, two 19-year-old German women who are also on a cycling adventure. (We share...
Joel Malkoff on Joining The Circus
Joel Malkoff (joelkmalkoffcircusartist.com) is a contemporary circus artist and 27-year-old grown unschooler from Indiana. We discuss Joel’s...
Alfie Kohn on Progressive Education
Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn.org) is the author of fourteen books and a well-known advocate of progressive education. Mr. Kohn discusses the purpos...
Catherine Fraise on Workspace
Catherine Fraise is the founder of Workspace Education (workspaceeducation.org) and 100 Roads (100roads.org). We discuss Catherine’s backgro...
Peter Bergson on Open Education
Peter Bergson is the co-founder of two self-directed learning centers in the Philadelphia area: Open Connections (openconnections.org) and N...
Pat Farenga on the Post-Pandemic Future of Homeschooling (Part 2) + the Harvard Homeschool Summit
Pat Farenga returns to talk about the second half of Harvard’s “Post-Pandemic Future of Homeschooling” conference, after which we discuss a...
Pat Farenga on the Post-Pandemic Future of Homeschooling (Part 1)
In this special two-part discussion, Pat Farenga and I discuss Harvard University’s ongoing 7-week conference, the “Post-Pandemic Future of...