The 8 Pillars of Self-Determined Education

  1. Building Community

  2. Building Social-Emotional Discourse

  3. Building Academic Discourse

  4. Building Literacy

  5. Building Student Leadership

  6. Building Mutual Accountability:

    Co-assessment

  7. Building Mutual Accountability:

    Providing Feedback

  8. Building Learning Systems:

    Student & Teacher Co-Design Learning

Instructional Practice & Language Learning

My work includes a focus on language learning and instructional practice—not as isolated techniques, but as applied examples of autonomy-supportive learning design.

I share selected instructional practices to make visible how theory, lived experience, and classroom realities intersect—particularly in work with multilingual and neurodivergent learners.

These examples may include:

  • Language-rich learning experiences grounded in meaningful activity

  • Instructional design choices that support autonomy, competence, and belonging

  • Adaptations for mixed-ability, multilingual, and neurodivergent groups

  • Reflections on what worked, what didn’t, and why

This is not a curriculum library or a collection of scripted lessons. It is a space for educators, families, and organizations to examine how learning environments can be designed differently—without defaulting to compliance.

Deeper exploration of instructional practice is available through workshops, consulting, and subscriber-supported content.