We made a one-time offer of 25% discount for member renewal to our current AERO members and had a huge response with a lot of great updates from member organizations. We'll report some of them below. It's great to hear what our members are doing.
For the next two days we are extending the offer to readers of this e newsletter, whether it is a renewal or first-time membership. AERO membership give you a 10% discount in our bookstore and for the AERO conference, free job ads, a link and place on our member map for schools and organizations, as well as a member banner for your website, access to the AEROlistserve and our video archive, and much more.
To renew or sign up for AERO membership go
here to our member site
and use coupon code ' renewal ' (lower case only). Use coupon code at checkout. Thanks for your continuing support!!
This is good for 2 days only.
Below are some uf the updates from AERO members.
From Ken Danford, North Star and Liberated Learners
"We are pretty busy with Liberated Learners these days. We have about a dozen centers in the network, and one opening in Dover, NH, called BigFish. There are a few more in the planning stages.
We are consulting with these Starters, and we are mutually supporting each other with all the existing centers. We do the Webinars (the ad on the AERO website) about once every six weeks, and I also talk to interested people one time, no-charge, about our model, about once per week. So there is a lot of discussion around spreading the North Star model.
I'm also working on a book."
"These are our Existing Centers:...
Erin Flemming writes from Canada
Erin in a graduate of AERO's Online School Starter Course
We Learn Naturally is celebrating its third year running alternative education programs in Hamilton Ontario. We have a forest school style recreation program called Learning in the Woods that serves homeschoolers and young children during the week and public school learners in the summer and during school break.
The Barn School is opening...
From Wayne Jennings about Minnesota alternatives:
"Good to maintain contact. Here's the MN scene:
About 140,000 students are in some type of "at-risk" alternative program, some all day, some for just summers, some just an hour or two a day. They are students labeled dropouts and others based on 10 categories. Many are programs established by the Legislature called Area Learning Centers; these operate year round. Other alternatives include online, substance abuse, etc. Some serve elementary students.. A strong active association exists with several statewide and regional conferences, the MN Assoc. of Alt. Programs. (MAAP) It's mission: To lead, promote, and support innovative learning experiences. I and others have pushed for innovative approaches and programs rather than being little high schools. I can report some progress on that....
Read the full responses
here.
The Western Institute for Social Research ("WISeR") by John Bilorusky, PhD, WISR President
In 1975, the Western Institute for Social Research (WISR) was founded in part as an attempt to improve on both conventional and alternative higher education as they had evolved into the 1970s. At that time, many educators and students were debating the merits of the university's role in the community and in social change, and the "relevance" of the curriculum to each individual student. After 43 years, and given growing income inequality, continued racial injustice, threats to our democracy, and the intensified and narrowing pressures to use education only for career advancement, WISR's mission and learning methods are more needed and important than ever.
Read the full responses
here.
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