Acton Academy Winter Park

To all the perspective families that have reached out to us about Acton Academy Winter Park. Sadly, we were not able to remain open through COVID. We wish you all the best on your educational journeys.

What is the right way to prepare our children for the world?

Simon Sinek on Education - Big Change Leading thinker, best selling author and friend of Big Change, Simon Sinek shares his thoughts on the future of education - the change that's needed and the ...

We don't do testing at Acton Academy, we want our eagles (students) to master the subjects they are working on. Just learning enough to pass a test ( 70% lets you move on) is not the same as absorbing and fully understanding the material at a pace that works for you.

Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them ma...

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I Missed a Very Big Thing – On Being an Acton Academy Parent I Missed a Very Big Thing wpengine December 02, 2014 Independent Learning FacebookTwitterLinkedin“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” ― Robert Brault In the Acton community, we are all learners – children, guides, parents. For parents...

Three Steps to Learn to Trust Your Child

Have you ever been in that awkward situation of asking a child a question and the parent answers for her? There is the slightest shift in the eyes of the child that can go unnoticed or it can break a heart. Not being trusted wears a soul down.

How do we learn to trust our children? How do we break our habits of stepping in, answering questions, ordering their food for them at restaurants because we are afraid of silence, or don’t want them to feel uncomfortable?

There are three actions we practice intentionally as Socratic Guides at Acton Academy that work wonders at home, too:

Pause.
Step back.
Then step back again.
Try it the next time your natural inclination is to rush over, fix, solve, repair, clean up, make amends.

Practice the hard work of waiting.

The reward is watching your child grow in confidence and willingness to take responsibility for their growth.

The Acton Academy mission is to inspire each child and parent who enters our doors to find a calling that will change the world

Independent, creative, learning ! @ Winter Park, Florida

Independent, creative play. They imagined what they wanted to build, found the wood from our recycled pile and created their vision.

Everyday the boys prove they are more capable than we sometimes believe !

Stepping back and giving them the control of their learning is amazing, learner driven education is accelerating their ability to gain new knowledge that has real world applications.