Our best-selling description of the school is bursting with the excitement of life at Sudbury Valley. Free at Last is also chock-full of stories that illustrate the many unique features of this highly original model.
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The Management Manual contains all the nitty-gritty details of running the school.
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The people who play sports at SVS learn far more profound lessons about life than those that can be taught by regimented, performance-oriented sports. They learn excellence, the type of excellence that comes from setting a standard for yourself to live up to and then trying your best to live up to it.
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This video is a glimpse into the life of our school. Enter a world of young people who are exuberant about their lives, and are fully in control of their education and of their school. We hope you will enjoy their spirit, their focus, and above all their intensity in pursuing their passions.
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This is a basic introduction to the complex process of starting a school. It analyzes various steps that founding groups have taken to get their schools off the ground and allow them to thrive in the early years. Included are dozens of stories describing triumphs and pitfalls encountered along the way.
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In the Spring of 2000, Mimsy Sadofsky was interviewed by Dr. Daria Brezinsky on her live radio show, “Children Come First”. The wide-ranging and searching questions asked on the show mirrored those that are so often asked during enrollment interviews and other conversations about the school.
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The Sudbury Valley School Handbook contains the central documents defining the structure of the School. These are a short description entitled "How the School is Governed”, the School Meeting Law Book, the ongoing policies and guidelines of the School Assembly, and the Corporation By-laws.
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“Sudbury Valley School was consciously modeled on the American experience. Our book The Crisis in American Education stressed the theme that this school’s values parallel those of American society. Why is it so hard for Americans to accept its premises? Why is it such a hard sell to the rest of the world?”
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A comprehensive collection of materials designed to aid people in starting Sudbury model schools and in understanding the model in depth. Includes books, in-house publications, CDs, audio books, DVDs, a subscription to the Sudbury Valley School Journal, and many other items.
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The people who play sports at SVS learn far more profound lessons about life than those that can be taught by regimented, performance-oriented sports. They learn excellence, the type of excellence that comes from setting a standard for yourself to live up to and then trying your best to live up to it.
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“Its judicial procedure is a community’s way of dealing with breaches of the rules that have been set up in order to deal with actions that derive from the tension between the individual’s desires and the community’s needs. Every social order, no matter how primitive, has some judicial procedure.”
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“What do kids learn at a Sudbury school? Are there any guaranties? I actually think that there are, and I think the things that can be (almost) guaranteed are the most important things of all in an explosively changing world.”
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Our best-selling description of the school is bursting with the excitement of life at Sudbury Valley. Free at Last is also chock-full of stories that illustrate the many unique features of this highly original model.
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A collection of essays, letters, and email exchanges exploring in depth the unique role that adult staff members play in Sudbury schools.
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The Management Manual contains all the nitty-gritty details of running the school.
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“The seeds for having a sustainable school are planted at the outset. How you start is largely the determining factor in how long you’re going to stay in existence. I’m going to examine the things that are necessary from the beginning and see how they tie into keeping a school sustainable over the long run.”
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“Forty years of amazing students have passed through our campus, but parents still worry while their children are here, students still struggle with the difficulty of the school, and the public still hangs onto models of education that have fallen into disrepair. Why?”
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In the Spring of 2000, Mimsy Sadofsky was interviewed by Dr. Daria Brezinsky on her live radio show, “Children Come First”. The wide-ranging and searching questions asked on the show mirrored those that are so often asked during enrollment interviews and other conversations about the school.
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“The school is a culture. It’s defined by an organic complex of themes. What I want to discuss is what turns out to be a fascinating walk through the history of Sudbury schools – namely, the development of the various themes that have appeared over the years as those that define a Sudbury school.”
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