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. It has professional parents educating the next generation to continue building the family legacy. In this way it is a homeschool co-op, but it is also an online school program, because parents are required to be qualified to be Career Technical educators and enroll in our Master Educator program where they learn at a postgraduate level an expertise in facilitating learning, as well as working towards earning a U.S. National Board Certification for Career & Technical teaching. The children in the program learn from their own professional parent, as well as the other professional parents, and from each other as peer-tutors. In this way, we are using and expanding the Japanese business principle of "Mukoyoshi", where there is flexibility for parents and children to choose what is best for themselves and the enterprises. In other words, we are 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 educators AND learners. How can we have "life long learning" without organizationally recognizing life-long-learning????
- Children are learners AND educators. Peer teaching has consistently been shown to be a best practice, yet our limited views stop this.
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
The Mukoyoshi Principle
The Family Enterprise Education program builds on the traditions of masters from guilds training their child in their discipline; and having a family business in which a child inherits; but also uses the Japanese business principle of "Mukoyoshi" where the continuation does not need to be based on bloodline, nor needs to necessarily be exactly the same business/industry.
