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A NOTE OF WELCOME

Call me a learning activist and potter whose 'higher callings' sometimes succeeded because I have blue collar skills and a college degree.  Although I've done too much alone, I've led an interesting life.  I'm here asking to be invited into conversations among change-makers who are ready to extend their vision by opening their minds to mine.
 
If you want help navigating towards your interests, ask.


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Photo by Cydney Scott for Bostonia Magazine, 2015.
See article, "Mud Stories Forged in Flame".

WEBSITE REVISION February 2021

. . . . If I don't toot my horn, who will?


I want to use my life experience to uplift young people, first by getting up front with adults who are deciding and designing their futures.  I care about how learning is structured, documented and assessed.  Now is opportune because Covid has changed so many lives.  Uniting health, education, economic development and governance while empowering people and communities to heal is my intention.

What if I am an essential missing link?  What if my atypical livelihood history equips me to offer what few people have identified as being absent?

I'm here to make a case for working with differently-skilled people to do cross-sector work.  Tomorrow's home might best be built with young people participating as deciders (project based learning) about what their schooling includes. I've lived five decades designing Independent Studies and Hybrid Learning Models.  I hope you'll read accordion text here and Learning Together.

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lederman@capecod.net or joan@thesoftearth.com