Insights & Reflections

When I first joined the Misty Meadows community I understood from the beginning that “school” was a bit of a misnomer. When Cassie Janisch founded Misty Meadows School in 2012, it was with the following questions: “How would nature do this?”  “What if we just trusted children?” 

An update on our own journey towards effectively containing and enabling self-directed learning

When I first decided that I wanted to start a school, I thought long and hard about the organisms called “human beings” and how we are...

This morning I was reading a book to Kwandokuhle, a three-year-old Zulu girl in our Misty Meadows preschool group, and I started to think...

My educational life was a glorification of being clever, rather than being wise. I think many can relate to this – all that striving for...

How many people do you know who live life tentatively? Always keeping one foot out of the door ready to move on when there is the...

Someone shared the acronym VUCA with me this week to describe the times we are living in right now – VUCA stands for volatility,...

A few months ago we had a lady visit school and I received the following thank you message from her. I think she summed up so much of...

Thinking about what to prioritize as educators in these times: Yuval Noah Harari (author of Sapiens), in his book “21 Lessons for the...

Imagine if every thought you ever had, and every connection you made in your head, that made perfect sense to you, was evaluated by...