January Book of the Month

Well, since I obviously haven't figured out exactly how to schedule this blog into my life, I decided I'll just do this now. Thank goodness NOBODY reads this blog yet, I'll tell you all about it when I get in a better habit. At the end of this month I am going to a seminar for Thomas Jefferson Education, therefore, the book I'm reading right now is one of the required readings for that. So here goes...

This month we are reading A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion by Oliver DeMille; Rachel DeMille; Diann Jeppson and Daniel Ruesch.

Here is the Editorial Review taken from Amazon.com...

"The core unit of society is the family, and it is in our homes that the principles must most deeply take root and flourish. Regardless of where your children sit to learn, your home can be transformed into a Leadership Education Home, a Thomas Jefferson Education environment. This volume offers something new, something which we all need: a view of Leadership Education from many angles, from the education of toddlers to advanced adult learning. Whether you're a parent, teacher, administrator, legislator, professor or grandparent, this book is a must. --Vicki Jo Anderson, co-Founder of American Heritage Academy"

If this book interests you, it is a companion to two other books; A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century by Oliver Van DeMille, and Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning by Oliver DeMille and Rachel DeMille. I have already read these two, and my interest in them caused me to buy the home companion. If this site were officially up and running I probably wouldn't have chosen this particular book, but since circumstances are as they are, this is the choice this month. If you are reading this blog, and want to join me, feel free! I would love your input. Comment on any blog posting related to this book. Also, if you want to read the other two books first, then pick one of them up this month and try it out. I recommend starting with A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century as it is the first book Oliver DeMille wrote.

Good Luck! And keep me poosted on your progress!