Insights&Reflections
How nature, curiosity and trust shape the way we learn
The Geometry of Emergence
Moving from flat planes to hyperbolic, fractal expansion. (And a few notes on the wisdom of lettuce.) Recently, while following a breadcrumb trail that started with a conversation about why two discs of fabric sewn together do not form a sphere, I found myself down a...
From Content to Capacity – Why the GED?
My first visit to Misty Meadows was in 2018 and it felt even then, that this was ‘IT’! Here was my first experience of finding an organisation that was working actively towards shifting in the direction of finding true education by breaking the (not only an outdated...
Sea World is not the ocean
When I first joined the Misty Meadows community at the beginning of 2023 it was as a parent, with two children at Misty Meadows School. I understood from the beginning that “school” was a bit of a misnomer. There isn’t a huge lot about school as we know it that makes...
ENABLING THE FREEDOM TO LEARN: An update on our own journey towards effectively containing and enabling self-directed learning
To say that 2024 was a challenging year for our ecosystem is a massive understatement, and yet now we find ourselves in such a beautiful place half way through our first term of 2025, that I think it is important to document the journey, and the learning, as a...
DESIGNING THE SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE
When I first decided that I wanted to start a school, I thought long and hard about the organisms called “human beings” and how we are designed to function. Surely the most important consideration in designing any education approach or process is to consider who we...