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1 month ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Patrick Whalen |Carol Anne Hudson |Cheryl Winstead
When my husband and I started homeschooling our first child in 2008, I checked out every home education-related book that I could get my hands on at the library. Thankfully I did not even venture into internet rabbit holes, so the information and advice was finite. Yet what I valued more than everything that I read, was spending time with veteran homeschoolers and asking them about their experience.
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2 months ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Peter Limberg |Paul Kingsnorth |Katherine Dee
We had a tremendous response to our invitation for readers to join us in a Communal Digital Fast during Lent, with many enthusiastically looking forward to an intentional commitment of recovering cognitive liberty and restoring our human default. I don’t want to merely detox from the digisphere. I want to change my whole relationship to it—the entire way I think about it. Because I’m fed up of feeling less alive because of it.
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2 months ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Melanie Hempe |Erin Loechner |Denise Champney
For those of you who prefer to read off paper rather than the screen, we have converted the post into an easily printable pdf file. The Critical Reality Window: How to be a default shifter853KB ∙ PDF fileWe live in an English-speaking country, yet English was not the first language that our children learned; instead we taught them our mother tongues, two obscure and seemingly useless languages: Swiss-German and Macedonian.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane
When I first started out homeschooling over fifteen years ago, I was fortunate enough to connect with two “veteran” homeschool moms who generously shared their insights into different curricula and learning routines with me. They offered me an opportunity to examine their resources along with the reasons for choosing them. I much preferred this method of examining potential curricula, as it saved me from being overwhelmed with catalogues and online reviews.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Jonathan Haidt |Jacqueline Nesi |Cara Goodwin
Today I read the most recent post on ’s by psychologist and , Research-Backed Advice on Screen Policies for Young Kids. Normally I find myself nodding along in agreement to most of the work shared on After Babel, but sensed that something crucial was missing in the advice being offered. While Haidt does emphasize delay, the problem is that the article rests on the assumption that screens will inevitably be a big part of our children’s lives.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future. Arthur M.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane
Would you like to connect with me to talk about your homeschooling questions, or simply to chat about family life? I have been a home educator for over fifteen years, have coordinated various co-ops and community programs, and have met and advised a vast variety of homeschool families over the years. Starting next week, I will offer a 40-min. “one-on-one zoom chat” for annual paying subscribers.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Charles Dickens |Ruth Gaskovski |Henry Oliver |Paul Kingsnorth
I am saying then, that literacy - the mastery of language and the knowledge of books - is not an ornament, but a necessity. It is impractical only by the standards of quick profit and easy power. Longer perspective will show that it alone can preserve in us the possibility of an accurate judgement of ourselves and the possibilities of correction and renewal. Without it, we are adrift in the present, in the wreckage of yesterday, in the nightmare of tomorrow.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Dixie Dillon Lane
which was followed by a question period. Why and How to Teach HistoryIn addition to discussing the role of imagination, knowledge, and argument in history teaching, we also talked about some practical activities for younger children, how to approach instructing economics and government for older students, te…
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Paul Kingsnorth
We are currently working on an upcoming article, but wanted to share a brief “intermezzo” post with you. If you find yourself “Camino Curious” after reading it, please join us for a live zoom meeting on Sunday, February 16th at 2 pm EST. Mark your calendar, and download your link here. Today Peco and I walked to Canada’s largest market, a 40-min snowy trek that we regularly make on Saturday mornings. The temperature was -20 C (-4F), and our faces felt frozen but alive.
