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Below you will find our latest e-newsletter sent July 10th, 2008. Dear Education Revolution E-News

Alternative Education Resource Organization - www.EducationRevolution.org

Dear Education Revolution E-Newsletter Readers:
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Table of Contents:
1) Corrections to Conference DVD Announcement
2) 2008 AERO Conference DVDs
3) Conference DVD Special Packages

1) Corrections to Conference DVD Announcement
We’ve had a wonderful initial response to our announcement of the AERO Conference DVDs that are available. But we have a couple of corrections:

Well, as several readers pointed out, the final date to reserve was not June 13 but JULY 13TH! If you want to get them in the first batch at the bulk discount prices we need to know by midnight Sunday at the latest which DVDs you would like us to reserve. We will place our bulk order with the DVD production service on Monday and ship them out by the end of the week.

Also, we have one correction on the list of workshops. The one by Sally Carless on sexual orientation switched times, so the one we have is the workshop with Sally, Khalif and Ron Miller entitled Educating for a Better World. The description starts, "What responsibilities do alternative educators have to address the challenges facing our planet and society?" It is under #10 B.

So our release now reads as follows. Again, please e mail me at JerryAERO@AOL.com to reserve the ones you want, or just reply to this e-newsletter.

2) 2008 AERO Conference DVDs
Wow! The AERO conference was amazing this year. Not only did we have fantastic keynoters, but we had many other people giving workshops who have been keynoters elsewhere. Obviously we couldn’t video all of the keynotes and over seventy five workshops, but we do have more recoded than ever before! The sound quality is our best ever, as we used blue tooth technology for the first time. In fact, the keynote talks sound clearer than if you were in the auditorium watching live!

We have made our master DVDs of the five speakers and some fantastic workshops, including all three of the school starters.

What we need to know from you right away is which ones you are interested in, so we know how many to have made. We will be offering a special low rate on the DVDs for those that respond by Sunday, July 13th.

We will sell them the same way as we have in previous years: You can purchase the entire set of twelve DVDs, pick seven DVDs, or get individual keynote or workshop DVDs. Below are our offerings this year:

1. Deborah Meier Keynote
Faculty at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, Board Member for the Coalition of Essential Schools and Author of Will Standards Save Public Education? and Many Children Left Behind among many others.

2. Wesley Clark Keynote
Student, Harriet Tubman Free School

3. Khalif Williams Keynote
Executive Director of the Institute for Humane Education

4. Matt Hern Keynote
Author of Field Day: Getting Society Out of School, Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn’t Always Better, and the new Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader

5. Mary Leue Keynote
Founder of The Free School (Albany) and SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education and author and editor of many titles

Workshops
(detailed descriptions can be found by downloading the conference program at http://www.aeroconference.com/program.pdf):

6. Emmanuel Bernstein & Tim Seldin
A) The Secret Revolution: A Psychologists Adventures in Education, with Emmanuel Bernstein and featuring Tim Seldin
B) World in the Palm of Her Hand: Making Geography and History Come Alive for Young Children with Tim Seldin

7. Deschooling Ourselves: Undoing the Unconscious Habits of School
Parts One and Two with Charles Eisenstein

8. Play and Democracy
with Deborah Meier

9. Matt Hern, Jerry Mintz, Pat Montgomery, & Dave Lehman
A) Everywhere, All the Time, Matt Hern
B) How to Bring Democratic Education to the Mainstream, with Jerry Mintz, Pat Montgomery, and Dave Lehman

10. Educating for a Better World
with Sally Carless, Khalif Williams, and Ron Miller

11. Carol Greenhouse & Chris Mercogliano
A) The Real Higher Education: Implementing Holistic, Somatic, Transpersonal Learning, Carol Greenhouse.
B) A School Must Have Heart with Chris Mercogliano (author of In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kid's Inner Wildness)

12. Three Part School Starters Workshops
A) School is a Community: Building a Support Group and School Community from Scratch with Alan Berger, Chris Mercogliano, and Jerry Mintz
B) Finances and Fundraising: Alternative Fund Raising Ideas and Best Practice from the Experience of Pat Montgomery, Chris Mercogliano, and Jerry Mintz
C) Pitfalls and Myths of School Starting: How to and How Not to Do It with Jerry Mintz, Chris Mercogliano, Pat Montgomery, and Mary Leue
For those who are considering taking our Start a School 101 online course, a year-long program to start in September, this two-disc set provides a good introduction to the core issues and themes.

Please reply to this e-newsletter and indicate which ones you would be interested in ordering:

3) Conference DVD Special Packages
The special rates we are offering for those that reply by Sunday, July 13th are:

Special One: Complete 12-Disc Set for only $149.95 (list price is $240.00)
Special Two: Any Seven DVDs for only $99.95 (list price $140.00)
Special Three: Single DVD for only $18.00 (list price $20.00)

Be sure to list the number in front of the DVD(s) you wish to reserve so we know what to produce.

Here are two quotes from participants of the conference:
"It was a rejuvenating experience. It was invigorating to be amongst a large group of motivated and sensitive individuals, from diverse, pan-cultural backgrounds - as everyone seemed to be tied by a thread of common interest, and the general atmosphere was that of serious, but heartfelt activism, striving towards a common goal of trying to understand what a holistic and effective model of education might be, that would address the unique needs of the present day….For me, the best part was getting to meet an exciting group of people, both young and old."
-A.S., India

"Every day was packed with exceptional opportunities for learning and sharing. We met some wonderful leaders in the world of alternative education and homeschooling, heard them speak and had time to talk with some of them personally. Deb Meier has written and edited a number of books on public alternative education. She has worked for years to make the schools better places for children and has succeeded well wherever she has been. Pat Montgomery is the founder of Chlonlara, a private school that has served homeschoolers since the 1970s. Tim Seldin shared about his work with Montessori schools and told everyone to “beg, borrow, and steal” any of the Montessori ideas or methods that will help the children in our schools or homeschools. Mary Leue, Matt Hern, Jerry Mintz and Chris Mercogliano worked with alternative schools for many years and talked about their experiences in those schools. These folks and many more shared their wisdom and insight about education, learning, and children. We came home with a wealth of new ideas and exciting plans for this coming year. We were also re-energized and reminded why we began our school – it’s for the children who need a safe, non-coercive, non-competitive place to learn. Shouldn’t that be for every child?"
-B.R., Virginia

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