Courses & Workshops

Tech talk at a homeschool conference ~ I need your help

April 9, 2018

I know your kids are using tech to collaborate, connect, and create meaningful, real-world learning experiences within your homeschool. I want to know about it.

Project Based Learning as both a mindset and methodology

September 20, 2017

Project based learning as a mindset is a mental approach, it's a belief or set of beliefs (developed in the actual doing, or the "method") that orient us to a certain way of handling situations, and approaching life. Project based learning as a method is how you do projects. And doing projects, like other learning methods is a means to acquiring specific knowledge and experience.

Practicing a philosophy of life

June 14, 2017

Homeschooling for me is as much about a commitment to the practice of a philosophy, a way of thinking and approaching life, as it is about providing my kids a certain type of education.

Speaking at a homeschool conference

June 2, 2017

I'm speaking at a local homeschool conference. No one is as surprised about this as I am.

Soapmaking Workshop on the Gaspe Peninsula

March 30, 2015

Friends have asked me for years to teach them how to make soap and it's always been my intention to do so. Now, with a Montreal moving date on the horizon I figured it was now or never.

Drudgery & Discipline

December 5, 2013

I don't have a problem with academics. But I question compulsory academics in a society where the success of its citizens, the longevity of the society itself, rests not on people having an acquired knowledge base or following a set path, but rests instead on people being empowered with a skill set of creative thinking, entrepreneurship, and leadership.