Resources & More

• Parent Policies 2025-2026

• Family Promises

• Parents on a Hero's Journey

•  Parent-Hero Contract

• Acton Academy Promises

• A Note on Trust- For Spark Parents

More Volunteer Opportunities 

Summer 2024 Volunteer Sign up

• After-School Care and Programs

• Start Volunteering Survey 

• QUARTERLY SATISFACTION SURVEY

• Camps and Childcare 

• Week 1- Our Why:  "Find a Calling"

• Week 2- Changing the World?

• Week 3- Heroes: Not Just Stories for Children

• Week 4- Acton Systems: Enabling Freedom with Responsibility

• Week 5- Choice Words: Learners vs. Students

• Week 6-Exhibition vs Test:  Redefining Accountability

• Week 7- Classroom vs Studio

• Week 8-  Guides vs Teachers

• Week 9- Studio Maintenance and Studio Roles

• Week 10- 3B's B4 G:  Why Guides Don't Answer Questions

• Week 11:  Serve to Lead

• Week 12:  Inside a Town Hall: When Learners Lead, Everything Changes

• Week 13:  The Quiet Power of Conflict Resolution

• Week 14:  Hero Bucks- Inane Transactions or Deep Learning?

• Bonus Post of the Week- Our Acton Promise:  Cherish the arts, wonders of the physical world, and the mysteries of life on Earth

• Week ?:  Deliberate Practice

• Courage to Grow

• Brave Parenting

• Thrivers

• The Coddling of the American Mind

• One World Schoolhouse

• The Genius Myth

• The Talent Code

• The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family

• The Power of TED

• Mindset: New Psychology of Success

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

• The Gift of Failure

• Mr. Joshua's Favorite Things

• Ms. Kadambari's Favorite Things

• Ms. Sarah's Favorite Things

• Ms. Nicole's Favorite Things

• Re-thinking Education for the Future with Jeff and Laura Sandefer (Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrond)

• Your Child Is On A Hero's Journey (Start Strong for Young Changemakers)

• Success and Acton Academy with Jeff Sandefer (Montessori Education with Jesse McCarthy)

• Finding the Genius in You with Jeff Sandefer

• How to Educate Our Children for a Successful Future (Warrior Family)

• Jeff Sandefer- A Hero's Journey (New Schools)

• School- Kids as Factory Products (Zach Lahn and Jordan Peterson)

• Educate Your Children!  (Jeff Sandefer and Jordan Peterson)

• What Is A Hero?

• TED: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

• Jet Cockpits and the End of Average

• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

• Let's Teach for Mastery- Not Test Scores

• Build a School in the Cloud

• Parent Onboarding Quest  #1

• Parent Onboarding Quest #2

• Parent Onboarding Quest #3

• Parent Onboarding Quest #4

• Parent Onboarding Quest #5

• Parent Onboarding Quest #6

• Laura Sandefer- On Being An Acton Academy Parent

• Acton Academy Main- Elementary Studio Blog

• Invictus Spark Studio Year 5,  Session 1 Blog

• Invictus Discovery Studio Year 5, Session 1 Blog

• Invictus Spark Studio Year 5, Session 2 Blog

• From the Desk of Sarah- Why "Invictus"?

• Invictus Discovery Studio Year 5, Session 3 Blog

• Invictus Spark Studio Year 5, Session 3 Blog

• Fairness in the Studio: Why We Don’t Try to Make Things “Fair”

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• Spark Studio Playbook

• Discovery Studio Playbook

June 22, 2023 - Antifragility & Trusting our Children