Learning Resources
How Do I Direct My Own Learning?
Check out these resources to learn more about self-directed learning!
- "What Happens When Students Create their own Curriculum?" (The Atlantic)
- The Art of Self Directed Learning
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Our Research
Interested in learning more about how Meraki concept came about? Check out the videos, organizations and articles below!
VIDEOS
- What 60 Schools Can Tell Us About Teaching 21st Century Skills: Grant Lichtman at TEDxDenverTeachers
- The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools | Will Richardson | TEDxWestVancouverED
- Hackschooling makes me happy | Logan LaPlante | TEDxUniversityofNevada
- RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
- School is optional: Ken Danford at TEDxAmherstCollege
- Most Likely to Succeed: Most Likely To Succeed has already brought together thousands of communities for thoughtful discussion about the future of their schools. They've recently created a series of Learning Sparks -- short videos that highlight critical concepts to spark small innovations in your classrooms and schools.
ORGANIZATIONS
ARTICLES
- Schools that Work profile of Nashville Big Picture (Edutopia)
- “Can a Truly Student-Centered Education be Available to All” (Mind/Shift)
- “The 13 Most Innovative Schools in the World”? (Business Insider)
- Should high school be more like the real world? These innovators think so (USA Today)
BOOKS
- Creative Schools
- Deeper Learning
- Shut Your Monkey
- The Misfit Economy
- Change By Design
- Creative Confidence
- Play Anything
- Burn Math Class
- Where Good Ideas Come From
- Wired to Create
- Overloaded and Underprepared
- Mindset
- Global Achievement Gap
- Hip Hop Genius
- Illuminate: Ignite Change with Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols
- For White Folks that Teach in the Hood
- Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
- Fascinate
- Creating Innovators
- Invent to Learn
- Helping Children Succeed
- A Curious Mind
- David and Goliath
- Wounded by School