Journal
Letters on teaching at the table
Sixteen letters. Each is a full essay — five to eight minutes. For parents, tutors, worldschoolers, and the people who will review us. Not a sales page.
27 August 2026 · About a seven-minute read
What we will not put in the box
If we ever ask a household to pay, or to back a campaign, here is the line we will not cross.
27 August 2026 · About a seven-minute read
Bring a Creative Commons talk, not a random YouTube
The paid door is for words you have the right to adapt. That is how we protect the parent.
26 August 2026 · About a seven-minute read
Certificates that are not clip art
The paper is ceremonial. The sentence on it is not.
26 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
Come back in one day, then three, then seven, then twenty-one
Rereading the packet is the habit the research exists to kill. The calendar is the product.
25 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
Six kids, one picture, six ages
A microschool does not need six curricula. It needs one idea, asked at the age in the chair.
25 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
A4 and letter: we designed for the printer first
The hostel printer, the library printer, the one in the kitchen. If it does not print, it is not the lesson.
24 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
The picture is the problem, not the decoration
We ask them to look before we hand them the paragraph. That is the whole visual language.
24 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
What I wish tutors had instead of another PDF of problems
Blocked practice feels kind. Mixed practice is the job.
23 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
A worldschool week with no wifi after Tuesday
The print pack is the point-of-use object. The app can wait in another country.
23 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
University physics for a ten-year-old, without dumbing it down
Age is the language. It is not the idea.
22 August 2026 · About a five-minute read
Why we print the lesson
Screens encode. Paper is how you leave the house with it. Rereading the screen is not the strategy.
22 August 2026 · About a five-minute read
Why the pictures are grey
Color was making us lie. Ink on cream is the theme, on the site and on the page.
21 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
We do not read the lecture to you
Spoken words that duplicate the paragraph fight the paragraph. Audio is a pass of its own.
21 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
A transcript of completed work, not a school transcript
Colleges know the homeschool code. What they need is an honest list of what was finished.
20 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
Lumen is not your school of record.
A certificate records completed work. It is not a diploma.
20 August 2026 · About a six-minute read
MIT is free. The teaching is the product.
What a household year pays for — and what it must never pay for.