Alpine Valley School Podcast
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Alpine Valley School Podcast
Alpine Valley School is a K-12 school in Wheat Ridge CO founded in 1997. We are a non-profit, independent school that follows the Sudbury Model of education. This podcast features interviews with graduates of our school, plus discussions of our unique philosophy, and ways to get involved.
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From Teacher to Revolutionary - One Journey in Self-Directed Education
In this episode of the Alpine Valley School podcast, we continue our Visionaries & Voices series with a powerful speech by Cassi Clausen, founder of T...
How Trust Transforms Learning
Join us as we dive into the transformative world of self-directed democratic education with Larry Welshon, founder of Alpine Valley School. With 28 ye...
Freedom to Learn Differently
In episode 59 of the Alpine Valley School podcast, we share an insightful interview with Addison Ault, a former special education teacher who has tran...
Parenting Self-Directed Kids
In this episode of the Alpine Valley School podcast, host Marc Gallivan talks with conscious parenting coach Angela Young about how to set clear bound...
Challenges and Opportunities
Staff Members at self-directed democratic schools like Alpine Valley School are often asked what sorts of unique challenges students experience at pla...
The Role of Staff
Most people involved in self-directed education know that staff are the adult members of the school community, but what is the actual role staff membe...
School Wounds
What are school wounds? How do they develop, and who do they affect? This is a topic we explore on episode 55 of the Alpine Valley School podcast, alo...
Good Students & Bad Students
In mainstream education, parents and teachers are continually breaking down children into two separate groups: good students and bad students. In this...
Back to School
It’s been a while, but Alpine Valley School is still here! In this episode Marc provides an update about what life at our school is going to look like...
Introducing: Lockdown Learning
Introducing a new podcast from Alpine Valley School - Lockdown Learning
As COVID-19 swept the globe from east to west this year, so has home edu...
Staying Home, Together
Like many schools around the world, Alpine Valley School is currently closed. Without a physical space where we can congregate, our self-directed lear...
Parent Interview: The Shannon’s
In this episode, we sit down with the parents of three currently enrolled students. The Shannon family shares what brought them to Alpine Valley Schoo...
Favorite Stories From Around the USA
To celebrate the milestone of our 50th episode, the Alpine Valley School podcast collected favorite stories from Sudbury Schools all over the USA. The...
Unschooling
Sudbury schools and Unschoolers have always had quite a bit of overlap in their philosophies, but how do unschooled students manage the transition to...
Elections
Important decisions at our school are made, not by a central authority figure, but by the democratic process of voting. All students and staff at the...
Chores
Everyone at Alpine Valley School (students and staff alike) participate in doing cleaning chores twice a week. On this episode, we follow a Chore-Chec...
Founding Stories: Arts & Ideas
This is the third part of our special series called Founding Stories, in which we interview founders of other self-directed democratic schools around...
Founding Stories: The Open School
This is the second part of our special series called Founding Stories, in which we interview founders of other self-directed democratic schools around...
Founding Stories: EKSS
This is the first in our series of special episodes called Founding Stories, in which we interview founders of other self-directed democratic schools...
Hard Lessons
The notion that self-directed schools, like Alpine Valley School, involve students only pursuing the subjects they find interesting is partially true,...
I Can Do What I Want
Students at self-directed democratic schools like Alpine Valley School and others, have significant freedom. In many ways they can “do what they want”...
Starting a School
“How do I start a self-directed democratic school in my area?” On this episode, staff and founder Larry Welshon lends his twenty-plus years of experie...
Favorite Stories
Funny, insightful, and unexpected, this episode of the Alpine Valley School podcast features our graduate’s favorite stories. Hear about surprising ad...
Give Kids Real Jobs
Just like the grown ups who love them, children are hungry for meaningful work. They want to take on jobs that have real meaning and make a significan...
Learning Math
In this final episode of our Core Learning podcast series, our guest Bruce Smith talks about how students at self-directed democratic schools learn ma...
Going To Work
What sorts of careers do the students of self-directed democratic education have? How do they stand out in a competitive job market without grades or...
Learning to Write
We’re continuing our “core skills” series (which we started with Learning to Read) by discussing how students at a self-directed democratic school lea...
Learning to Read
Many find it hard to believe, but children at self-directed democratic schools do learn how to read, largely without any adult intervention. On this e...
If Our Daughter Died Tomorrow, Would We Be Happy With How She Had Lived?
At a recent event at our sister school (Hudson Valley Sudbury School in New York), Wendi Piper told her story about how self-directed democratic educa...
Parent Panel - The Dads
What is it like to parent a child while they are enrolled at an alternative school as free as Alpine Valley School? What struggles do dads experience...
The Invitation of Boredom
When students at self-directed democratic schools like Alpine Valley School find themselves free from classrooms and curricula, they are sometimes lef...
Amplify Your Passion
The people who know Kelsey Kiernan, dancer and AVS graduate, know that she is a force of nature. Kelsey will stop at nothing to reach her goals and li...
Make Your Mark
The current education system in the United States is failing some of our kids, mainly the ones who cannot fit into the preconceived mold. Many creativ...
JC in the Real World
How does self-directed democratic education prepare students to move on to the real world after graduation? It’s a question we are asked a lot, and we...
Making Your Own Choices
Alpine Valley School students have the ability to choose many things - how they spend their time, when and what they eat during the day, who they hang...
Let Children Decide
What should we do with children? How do we best guide them on their life’s course and provide them with the skills they will need along the journey? W...
Going to College
One of the main questions we are asked during tours is whether or not Alpine Valley School students go on to college, and if so, how do they do it? Af...
School Meeting
How do important decisions get made in a self-directed democratic school? Do students really get to vote on the budget, the hiring and firing of staff...
Judicial Committee
Judicial Committee, the justice system at school, is a cornerstone of life at Alpine Valley School. How do we know that Judicial Committee is working,...
Parent Panel - The Moms
What is it like to parent a child while they are enrolled at an alternative school as free as Alpine Valley School? What struggles do moms experience...