The Family Enterprise Education program is based on a lineage of tradition as old as humanity itself, yet is at the forefront of today's AI driven world, breaking the mold of what "education" is, by harnessing the genius of the "AND" which Jim Collins and Jerry Porras demonstrated is a critical component to building a great organization:
- It is a homeschool co-op AND an institutional online school. We take the best from both, instead of being limited to a false dichotomy.
- Parents are teachers AND students. How can you have "life long learning" without organizationally recognizing life-long-learning????
- Children are students AND teachers. Peer teaching has consistently been shown to be a best practice, yet our limited views stop this.
In a Nutshell
The Family Enterprise Education program has professional parents, teach their children their trade, and are in charge of their education. So in this way, it is "homeschool", but the parents are professionals, capable of being "teachers", and in fact are simultaneously working toward earning teaching credential(s). Although, the whole concept of "teacher" is being expanded, because what is critical, is not "teaching", but the facilitation of learning, and this can be done in MANY ways, often better than "direct instruction". Further, the parents are not only facilitating learning for their child, but are facilitating learning containers for the other students who are part of this program. (both children and parents!) And the children are peer-tutoring (teaching) their fellow students, in the areas they have more expertise, which provides value to both the peer being tutored and doing the tutoring (and those words still are artificially constraining what really happens in the natural flow of collaboration that occurs).
Family Pods
A family pod is the individual learning pod of the professional parent and apprentice child(ren). It is the basis for the individualized learning that is the core of the "homeschooling" aspect of the program.
Competency Cubes
We are not limited by the standard concept of a "class" such as "algebra". Instead our education is developed around the concept of learning containers, a concept innovated by Olga Evans, in which the learning facilitation is both self-contained, as well as being able to build on top of each other. For backward compatibility purposes, we may treat classes/courses as a learning container, but our learning container are distinguished from traditional classes by:
- Requires basic prerequisites of learning to participate in the learning
- While participating, is adaptive to the needs of each student
- Is mastery-based, so students do not graduate from one until they can sufficiently demonstrate their learning
