by Faith Brooks-Carr | Sep 14, 2021 | [Homepage], Parenting, Stories, Uncategorized
Hello Circle School Family! I became interested in the school many years ago when I started my family. I had begun delving deeper into research regarding what successfully existed globally based on the personal criteria I held. My personal criteria were heavily...
by Jim Rietmulder | Aug 27, 2021 | [Homepage], Daily life, Featured, Lily, Meadow Campus, What's it all about?
At first glance, you might get the wrong idea from the title of my book, When Kids Rule the School. You might think kids are in charge in some sort of absolute way. It’s not that simple. The publishers didn’t like my working title: “Kids Practicing...
by Marina Reinford | Aug 11, 2021 | [Homepage], Daily life, Featured, Stories
Sometime back in March, I made a cardboard spinning wheel at school. If any of you are wondering what type of school I go to where I can make a spinning wheel out of cardboard, it’s called The Circle School, and it’s a self-directed democratic school in...
by EvaMarie Adame | Jun 23, 2021 | [Homepage], Daily life, Featured, Stories
One of the most popular human figures to come out of Greek mythology is, arguably, Sisyphus. For those who don’t know his story, basically, he was a king who cheated death in his youth, and when he eventually died of old age and had to go back to the underworld, he...
by Ellen Abbott | May 28, 2021 | [Homepage], Daily life, Featured
Jim’s 2014 blog post “I connected my laptop to the internet and fire trucks came” was published shortly before I began my tenure here at The Circle School. In my early days on staff, one of the first things Jim told me was that “At The Circle...
by Lily Compton | May 4, 2021 | [Homepage], Featured, Meadow Campus, Uncategorized
My name is Lily Compton and I started the Cool Things Outside Corporation at The Circle School five years ago, and I’m still the chair of the corporation today. [“Corporations” at The Circle School are like clubs or interest groups. -Editor] I didn’t have...
