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🐴 Silicon Valley's education secret is leaking (and it's not coding)

🐴 Silicon Valley's education secret is leaking (and it's not coding)

When Silicon Valley elites abandon private schools for custom education, what do they know that we don't? PLUS: The free tool making personalized learning accessible to everyone.

🐴 Why the trades pay 6 figures

🐴 Why the trades pay 6 figures

Just 1.5% of Americans feed 300 million people. See how the skilled trades shortage creates opportunity. PLUS: $2.5 million in scholarships for people willing to work.

🐴 Weekly Roundup: How to build a 'self-managing family' (from a mom of 7)

🐴 Weekly Roundup: How to build a 'self-managing family' (from a mom of 7)

From AI tutors to Miyazaki-style family photos, what our fascination with artificial creativity reveals about being human...

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🎙️ Coach Meg Thomas on creating a self-managing homeschool

🎙️ Coach Meg Thomas on creating a self-managing homeschool

Her secret "Heart, Habits, Home" framework eliminates burnout and teaches real independence. PLUS: The "Levels of Liberty" system that transforms entitled kids into capable adults...

🐴 Why learning should look like failing

🐴 Why learning should look like failing

Seth Godin reveals why mistakes are essential to real learning. PLUS: The startling math about how little time you have with your kids, and turning family photos into Studio Ghibli art.

🐴 The 4-minute video that teaches quadratic equations better than most schools

🐴 The 4-minute video that teaches quadratic equations better than most schools

This simple lo-fi video has racked up 4.4M views by making "completing the square" actually make sense. PLUS: Why Barbara Corcoran says her dyslexia was the secret to her success, and the mathematical formula that's quietly ruining education.

🐴 AI tutors are advancing quickly: should you try one?

🐴 AI tutors are advancing quickly: should you try one?

Discover how AI tutors are revolutionizing personalized learning and which ones families are raving about. PLUS: The surprising grammar rules we all know without ever being taught.

🐴 Weekly Roundup: A Brief Guide to Building Educational Micro-communities

🐴 Weekly Roundup: A Brief Guide to Building Educational Micro-communities

Discover how micro-communities and specialized educators are reshaping personalized education. PLUS: A free life hack to vet YouTube videos and podcasts for inappropriate content.

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🐴 Study like a lion, not like a cow

🐴 Study like a lion, not like a cow

82% of students can't do math at grade level despite billions in funding. PLUS: A free alternative to paid content screening tools.

🎙️ This mom turned a van into a microschool

🎙️ This mom turned a van into a microschool

From mobile classrooms to kitchen table co-ops - the micro-community movement is changing education. PLUS: How to start your own microschool.

🐴 Why your explanations aren't clicking (and the simple fix)

🐴 Why your explanations aren't clicking (and the simple fix)

How showing what something ISN'T creates faster understanding than showing what it IS.

🐴 Access 75,000 free books without Amazon

🐴 Access 75,000 free books without Amazon

Jeremy Caplan reveals a treasure trove of free reading resources that expand your child's learning world without expanding your budget. PLUS: Becoming an educational architect.

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