I've been following the Alternative Education Resource Education Organization (AERO) for a while now. Their website is a great place to find literature, video and links to people and organizations that believe in democratic, student centered education. Whether Seeley goes to a public school, an alternative school or is homeschooled, her education will be her power. AERO usually has their conferences on the east coast, but this year their annual conference will be in Portland! I'm really hoping to go in August,
check out what AERO has to offer!
Keynote speakers
AERO is proud to present the following line-up of keynote speakers for this year’s AERO conference:
Finding the Catalyst for the Education Revolution. More keynotes will be announced in the next few months as we approach the conference!
- Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world’s leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries. He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. Sir Ken will share his thoughts on shifting the paradigm that many education systems still manifest around the world.
- Naomi Aldort is an international expert on parenting and parent/child relationships and author of the book Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves. Naomi is an expert on raising powerful and peaceful people through attachment parenting and by protecting their innate freedom to be themselves. Her parenting advice columns have been internationally published covering all responsive parenting issues from babies through adults with focus on raising self-reliant, autonomous, powerful, and peaceful people. For her keynote she will be talking about raising self-directed and powerful children who act and learn from their inner passion without coercion or manipulation.
- Occupy Portland’s Our School project will present a panel sharing practical ways that individuals and groups can organize the education revolution in their own communities. AERO’s Director, Jerry Mintz, will introduce the panel by outlining AERO’s new international representative program. Their panel will end with a group discussion and visioning session to help focus and spur on the education revolution beyond the conference.
- Yaacov Hecht (pictured above) is the founder of the Democratic School of Hadera in Israel, the first to call itself a democratic school. He is also the founder and former head of the Institute for Democratic Education. He currently the founder and CEO of the Education Cities organization which helps transform entire cities’ education system
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