Welcome to our new Inquiry Project Series! Through the months of February and June, we’ll share the story of our Learning Exchange with the Inspired Teaching Demonstration Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Together we’re learning what becomes possible when young people explore what they want to learn and design their own learning. Join our…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern thanks you for sharing your 2020 reflections with us. We’ve gathered your reflections and insights to create a collection of learnings for 2021. Dear Friends, At the Academy for the Love of Learning, we ended 2020 by reflecting on the year and considering what we could learn from our…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern invites you to reflect, make meaning, and imagine possibilities for the future with us. Dear Friends, As 2020 comes to a close, having brought us… all that it has brought…we see in the prospect of 2021 possible glimpses of hope and light – a bit distant and uncertain still…
Academy Founder and President Aaron Stern talks with Diane Solomon of KKUP Radio in Cupertino, CA to discuss our upcoming co-facilitated workshop with the Namchak Foundation, Waking Up in Community: Taking Your Practice into the World, and share the Academy’s emerging work and programming and ongoing vision and mission. Listen to the full interview here.
In 2018, the Academy celebrated its 20th anniversary and wrote a book commemorating our history, legacy, and movement forward into the future. Read our booklet Reflection and Emergence: 20 Years of the Academy for the Love of Learning to learn more about our past work and emerging vision. Download our booklet by clicking on the…
I hope that you remain safe, well, and engaged during these difficult times. Over the past six months, we’ve watched as our society’s traditional assumptions about education have collapsed onto themselves. As we reexamine collectively what learning means, we have an opportunity, perhaps greater than ever before. When certainty is gone, especially at this scale,…
Seton Monday is a blog series sharing updates and learnings on Ernest Thompson Seton and the Academy’s Seton Legacy Project, curated by David Witt. In this edition, David shares art from the Seton Legacy Project’s 2020 art exhibition Endangered. Learn more about the Endangered at http://ernestthompsonseton.com/ I envisioned Endangered as an exhibition about our disconnection…
It’s eight o’clock in the morning, and I must get to the Academy garden while the irrigation is still running so I can make sure it’s hitting its targets. We have been in a long dry spell since Easter, and it’s the fourth of July holiday. But the garden doesn’t know holidays; it requires constant…
I hope that you are staying well and safe in these extraordinary times. Since I last wrote, I’ve been working with a team to imagine ourselves into the next phase of the Academy for the Love of Learning. As I signaled in my April message, beginning in July, the Academy will reorganize to focus on…
In the throes of COVID-19, our governor has declared a stay-at-home order. But in Santa Fe County, the population is low-density, and physical distancing while getting outside is not a problem. I manage to get outside daily but wanted to do some community service without risking contact with others. So, it occurred to me that…
