Brett Veinotte
Host of School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation
Brett Veinotte's career in and around institutionalized schooling ran from 2000 until 2013. During that time he experienced a wide variety of academic settings, professional roles and disturbing revelations.
Brett began working as a counselor and outdoor educator at a boarding school in Vermont in 2000, and was eventually promoted to lead teacher of a specialized campus. He then taught at a private day school in Manchester, Vermont from 2004 to 2006, where he designed new curricula for all classes he taught, including American History, World History, Media Ethics, Film History and a variety of mathematics courses.
He completed masters level coursework in educational leadership, and the secondary education certification program at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. After leaving classroom teaching in 2006, Brett began to work exclusively as a private tutor in the greater Boston area. Much of this work was related to standardized test prep but also included college application and admission consulting, leading training sessions for prospective teachers planning to take statecertification exams, and serving as a liaison between parents and public schools to address student needs and parent concerns.
Most recently, he served as the vice president of a tutoring and educational consulting company in New Hampshire.
Brett Veinotte has hosted 133 Episodes.
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24. Thinking, Fast and Slow
July 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 13 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
This might be the last chance you have to break through to the ideologically possessed.
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23. Unenclosed Children
July 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, kerry mcdonald, self-directed education
A look inside a family learning without schooling. With Kerry McDonald.
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22. Filling the Trough
July 7th, 2022 | 1 hr 37 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Scott Hambrick returns for a discussion on how people learn and how we help them do that better.
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21. What It Means To Be Educated
July 4th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
"An education is the capacity to author your own life instead of merely accepting the one handed to you." - Blake Boles
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20. Don't Be Anyone's Useful Idiot
June 29th, 2022 | 1 hr 27 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Career and life advice for young people for the 2020s. With Zak Slayback.
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19. Succeeding Without Schooling
June 25th, 2022 | 1 hr 32 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Zak Slayback is an Ivy League dropout, here to explain how to build a better credential than the college degree. The time has come.
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18. Learning Without Schooling
June 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 36 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, natural learning, pam laricchia, reading, sandra dodd, self-directed education, unschooling
An Essential School Sucks compilation of two conversations with natural learning legends, Sandra Dodd and Pam Laricchia.
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17. Growing Without Schooling
June 20th, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, class dismissed, critical thinking, growing without schooling, pat farenga, self-directed education, unschooling
The story of man's journey from aspiring to be a public school teacher to unschooling his own three children all the way to adulthood.
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16. Here Is What's Possible Beyond Public School
June 18th, 2022 | 1 hr 30 mins
alternative education, circle school, critical thinking, self-directed education, sudbury school
I visit the Circle School in Harrisburg PA for a round-table discussion with Over 20 Young Self-Educators. Also with Tony Myers and members of the Circle School staff.
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15. Building Self-Directed Learning Communities
June 15th, 2022 | 1 hr 16 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Diane Murphy taught in public schools for 30 years before she retired early to build BigFish - a new model for community-focused self-directed learning.
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14. The Hero's Journey For Teens
June 13th, 2022 | 1 hr 34 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
(but also for everyone else) Matt Beaudreau returns to map out a hero's journey for teens. We'll also discuss how students are guided through this process at Acton Academy, and how parents can help nurture this process in their own children.
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13. The Micro School Movement
June 11th, 2022 | 1 hr 10 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
Kerry McDonald returns to discuss the growing Micro-School movement. What is a Micro-School and why should we be talking about them?
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12. Purpose and Passion-Driven Education
June 9th, 2022 | 57 mins 46 secs
alternative education, connor boyack, critical thinking, indoctrination, purpose, self-directed education, tuttle twins
With Connor Boyack
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11. Setting Children Free (In An Age of Mass Panic)
June 8th, 2022 | 49 mins 7 secs
alternative education, critical thinking, free-range kids, helicopter parenting, lenore skenazy, school safety, self-directed education
Over a decade ago, Lenore Skenazy was one of the first people to sound the alarm on the dangers of 'child-safety.' But here we are.
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10. When Mainstream America Learned College Is A Scam
June 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, college, college scam, critical thinking, self-directed education
(But then they all forgot)
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9. Who Controls Our Children?
June 2nd, 2022 | 1 hr 19 mins
alternative education, critical thinking, self-directed education
And what is Outcome-Based Education? Prepare to be shocked/not shocked.