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Part 1: Encouraging Entrepreneurial Thinking in Teens
The Right Mindset for Today's Market As a parent, you want your teen to be successful in life, but how can you prepare them for a constantly changing and evolving world? One way is to encourage and promote entrepreneurial thinking in your teen. Entrepreneurial...
Announcing our 2023 Summer Camp!
Great news! Astrolabe Academy is excited to announce the launch of our new 6-week Entrepreneurial Summer Camp for teens. This program is designed to help young adults develop the skills and knowledge they need to become successful entrepreneurs. Our expert instructors...
One Reason Your Teen May be Miserable…
Pretty much as soon as the pumpkin decorations show up on the shelves, folks start asking for help with their kids in high school. School has barely started and the problems have already begun. The parenting teens groups on Facebook fill up with posts from frustrated...
It’s all about the label…
Frustrated... Let’s face it, by the time you, as parents, contact me, you are generally at whit’s end. Am I right? Traditional education isn’t cutting it and your high school age child is, to put it simply, just done with school. Your child has been compartmentalized,...
The Winding Road to Unschooling
Like many who are homeschooling or are thinking about it, I headed down this path for several reasons. Regardless, of what lies behind that decision, we all have one worthy goal in mind – to foster a love of learning in our children and to help them develop the...
Headmaster’s Musings
Self-Directed Learning vs. Coerced Learning
The Situation/Focus In this session, we introduced the contrasting concepts of autonomous learning and enforced learning. The session aimed to promote a deeper understanding of these learning styles and inspire students to take control of their educational journeys....
5 Truths About Life
The Situation/Focus In the lesson "Embracing Life's Challenges: Discussing David Richo's 'Five True Things'," students were exposed to David Richo's five truths about life, leading to a deep and insightful conversation about how these truths connect with their...
Becoming Self Aware
Weekly Student Success Session 12/14/22 This week we continued our discussion on independent learning and documenting our activities. This became a discussion on being aware of ourselves. Key Insights or Distinctions Recap last week’s discussion on independent...
Independent Learning & Transcripts
Weekly Student Success Session 12/7/22 Today we focused on the topic of Independent Learning and how we build a transcript for our students using their projects. Key Insights or Distinctions Importance of documenting your learning journey How developing a plan for...
How We Get Things Done
Done Beats Perfect In the third week of our program, we delved into how we get things done and the mindset required for success. We started by discussing the importance of done over perfect and how perfectionism can often hold us back. Making decisions, even if they...
Core Values & Life Balance
Building a Solid Foundation In our second session, we delved into the importance of core values and balance in our lives. We started by identifying and discussing our core values and how they contribute to creating purpose in our lives. These values included vision,...
Kickstarting the Journey
Setting Expectations and Goals for Astrolabe Academy's Program At Astrolabe Academy, we believe in empowering students to take charge of their learning journey and equipping them with essential life skills that will benefit them in the long run. As we embark on our...
