It's a common misconception that a teacher or an expert is a necessary, or even the most important element in order to learn anything. But reliance on a select individual will limit how much your child can truly learn. Children need opportunities to learn from other people, peers, books, research on the internet because they won't have a teacher leading them throughout their adult life.

It's Matt's Birthday! But he doesn't generally openly share that information. Why? Well because the way we treat people as extra special on their birthday is how we should be treating people every day. 

Including our kids. He doesn't mean celebrating with a cake every day. We need to continually make sure our children know that they are loved, and being and feeling loved might mean different things for every child.

Matt Beaudreau discusses what the contract is, how it's used at Acton Academy Placer, and how that can be transferred to the home environment.