In this episode of the Coconut Thinking podcast, I speak with Jane Bryant, former CEO of Artswork, the U.K.’s national youth arts development agency, formerly chaired by Ken Robinson. Now
How can we use regenerative practices to help people reveal their essence? How can we move away from a deterministic approach to education and allow learners to set their own
This article was inspired by my conversations with Louka Parry and David Penberg. Sometimes I fixate on a subject or idea and find myself buying a bunch of books and
This may sound odd, but I love calling for help when my computer decides to go rogue, not following the plan that I so carefully and naively laid out before
What if we used Impact Portfolios as evidence of our potential? | Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. | 8 Min Read
Our lives take different courses based on the decisions made by people we often don’t even know. This is because selection processes that are out of our control determine what
There is something insidious about pushing schools to change in order to prepare students for new jobs that do not yet exist, for problem-solving to address threats to productivity, or
We justify our need for a set curriculum by invoking our responsibility to prepare students for the future, expose them to ideas that will make them respectable well-rounded citizens, and
Every once in a while, a report comes out from a behemoth transnational organization that rings alarm bells, warning us about how the education system is not equipping young minds
February 18, 2022 & September 29, 2023 In this episode, I speak with Jordi Diaz Gibson, co-Founder of the NetEduProject, which is an international interconnected community of leaders, educators and researchers
August 22, 2023 Is a new version of the brain coming? The theme of regeneration appears commonly in Intrepid Ed News, particularly in articles written by my colleague Benjamin Freud.
May 19, 2023 How might we create regenerative learning experiences through healthy soils? Founder of Fearless Farmers, Amy Milliron creates online and onsite regenerative farming curricula for kids of all
April 28, 2022 Recently I have been rethinking the idea of how we teach students to prepare them for the future. When I ask questions surrounding what they need in