Acton Academy Resources

Videos Worth Watching

The Learner Driven Revolution: The Story of Acton Academy.

Jeff Sandefer

RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms

Sir Ken Robinson

New experiments in self-teaching

Sugata Mitra

Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson | TED Talk

School-Kids as Factory Products

Zach Lahn & Jordan Petersen

Let's teach for mastery - not test scores

Sal Khan

TEDxOKC - April 8th, 2011

Jeff Sandefer

What makes a hero?

Matthew Winkler | TEDed

The power of believing that you can improve

Carol Dweck | TED

Books Worth Reading

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Courage-To-Grow

    Courage To Grow

    By Laura Sandefer

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Unschooling-Rules

    Unschooling Rules

    By Clark Aldrich

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Thomas-Jefferson-Education

    A Thomas Jefferson Education

    By Oliver DeMille

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-One-World-School-House

    The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

    By Salman Khan

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Talent-Code

    The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

    By Daniel Coyle 

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Nature-Shock

    NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

    By Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-3-Big-Questions

    The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

    By Patrick Lencioni 

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Mindset

    Mindset

    By Carol Dweck

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Creative-Schools

    Creative Schools

    By Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica

  • Acton-Academy-North-Shore-Reading-Work-Rules

    Work Rules!

    By Laszlo Bock