Past the freshwater spring, the well-maintained trail has been petering steadily out. We find ourselves using arms and legs to scamper up the hillside. A goatherd and his tinkling, shaggy charges are on the opposite valley wall. “I see it!” says Lucy, pointing to a doorway cemented into the hillside. “Finally!” says Kai. […]
As we shared in this blog on creating a worldschooling roadmap, we want to encourage you to experiment with education, be spontaneous, and trust your instincts. To help you get things started, the following section provides some techniques that worked well for us and other families we interviewed. Many activities and prompts are interdisciplinary, so […]
The overgrown lilac and salvia bush made our usual side entrance to the house feel more like a return to Sleeping Beauty’s castle than the home we left a year before. We opened the door, into the collective space of our past, ready to kiss it back to life. We dispersed in different directions. I […]
This blog offers a practical foundation for launching your worldschooling journey, including terminology, learning strategies, tools to support different types of learners, and thoughts on finding your groove. In case you were wondering, yes, you absolutely can educate your kids on the road. This blog will provide you with guidelines and gridlines, ideas, and […]
Some families know at the outset what their worldschooling approach will be. Others have no idea, or they might know how to they want to cover some areas but not all. In this blog we walk you through suggestions to help create an education road map. We begin with some logistical considerations that may […]
Kai stands tall on the porch of our Costa Rican rental in his best blue shorts, new flip-flops, and red-thread necklace frayed and bleached by the Central American sun. The thread had been blessed by a rinpoche (abbot) six months before in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal, and we had each worn ours ever since. […]
We pull the RV off the highway on New Zealand’s southeastern shores for no better reason than the kids are starting to bicker and I need to use the restroom. The temperature reflects layers of sharp, intermittent breezes bursting from Antarctica and a bright, hot summer sun. Sand spills into the parking lot; weathered driftwood […]
Once we settle in the taxi and get the address up on the map, I start asking the driver about his night, whether he’s eaten his rice yet (see page 228), how long the rains might last this season, and if he thinks the military junta will allow elections soon. Bangkok city lights cast reflections […]
Our third, fourth, and seventh graders were in a Waldorf School back home, and the teachers were supportive and encouraging of our year away. I brought hard copies of the larger yearly project assignment sheets: animal report, shelter project, and biography. We took advantage of the New Zealand libraries to complete them. The kids wrote […]
Here we share why we each chose to worldschool, opening up about the experiences and personal motivations that led us on this journey. Annika My love of the road trip probably began the summer I turned ten, when our family drove from our home in the San Francisco Bay Area to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in […]
