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Greetings, Happy Hollidays, and welcome to another Hive Blog! Matt here. I’d like to share the status of The Hive and my masters thesis introduction. As I have previously expressed, I am finishing graduate work on self-directed education at the University of Oregon on top of my full time job. Suffice to say, time dedicated to reopening the Hive is limited at the moment. But once I finish the program this spring (2022), I am all in. Lately, I have been fielding various inquiries about The Hive from curious parents and community members who would like to get involved with the program once it is ..read more

Greetings and Happy Fall, Matt here to give you an update on what is going on at The Hive. As you may have read in Grace’s latest blog, she stepped down from various leadership roles and passed the torch. Three wonderful people have joined me on the Board of Directors, and The Hive is reorganizing with the intention to open sometime in the 2023/2024 school year! Do you recognize the need for a viable alternative to school based on the principles of self-directed education in the Eugene/Springfield area? Are you interested in joining a dynamic startup team? If so, consider joining The Hive Boa ..read more

December 2018 ~ we walked down to the river almost every day of our pilot year. It is with gratitude and excitement, rather than disappointment, that I’m writing to say goodbye to the Hive. Because: I’m not saying goodbye from the Hive, and the Hive is not saying goodbye to the world. In June I resigned from my positions both on our board of directors and also as executive director. Three other board members also resigned. To my amazement, three wonderful new board members, with energy and enthusiasm to move forward, and with diverse and valuable skills, have signed on. Matt Shumski has taken ..read more

Greetings, friends.  It’s high time to check in.  After much soul searching, we’re clear that our team of Hive staff and board members are, collectively, not ready to re-open our center. We’re traveling toward a crossroads. When our fiscal year ends on June 30, we expect either to have shored up and reinvisioned our organization with a few new Liberated Learners aficionados, or perhaps to have officially shut down our organization. It’s not that we’ve lost interest in the larger cause–far from it. We’ve been redirecting our personal energy into compatible but different undertakings ..read more

Hello! It’s been a long time since we’ve shared anything here on our blog or, for that matter, updated our website in any other way. Truth be told we’ve found ourselves really busy with other projects, and while the future status of The Hive remains to be seen, we’re unlikely to be re-opening this coming fall. We do hope to post more here soon. Meanwhile, Hive pilot year staffer and current graduate student in the College of Education at The University of Oregon, Matt Shumski has written a thoughtful and timely essay and we wanted to share it with you. We sincerely hope all is well with you an ..read more

by Grace Llewellyn We’re not running The Hive this year.  After a rollercoaster of a summer – and I do mean the stuff of high Hollywood drama in which, first, we speculated on tenterhooks whether we’d survive, and then boom! we made it: our roster creeped up just to our bare-bones threshold, and then crash! the Wheel of Fortune turned again: two members canceled in mid-August – we gave notice to our kindly landlords. “But I thought you were growing!?” protest the appalled fans. Yes, we were. But although we had twice as many members registered for September 2019 as we did for September 2 ..read more

Grace Llewellyn If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve heard a whole lot of me, plus a smidgen of Matt and other Hive adults. It’s high time for a few words from our youth, so I asked for volunteers and gave a few prompts. Here are their responses, verbatim and in their entirety: Member #1: This year at the Hive has been a blast. Throughout the year I’ve been learning things that I’ve had interest in for a lot of my life, and picking up some new skills too. Since I started in the fall of 2018, I’ve started knitting, playing ukulele, paper mache, writing music, and making lots and lots of ..read more

Hive member Maia teaches The Lore of Zelda by Matt Shumski It rains a lot in the Willamette Valley this time of year, a lot. Despite the gloomy overcast and lack of vitamin D, a winter in the valley helps me practice my ability to distinguish between the things I can and cannot change, and direct my actions appropriately. No amount of fretting over the weather is going to change it; it is simply out of my control, and any energy spent obsessing over it is a waste. Many of us dedicate too much time and mental energy dwelling on things we can’t change. Really, one of the only things that is 100 ..read more

One of our fall term highlights was Tilke’s Tuesday afternoon art class. Tilke is an artist; a passionate lover of planet earth, plants, and animals; the creator of All Round Magazine (no longer publishing, but watch for opportunities to snag back issues); a world class hide-and-seek player. Having just returned from a long trip to Santa Fe, she is planning a new Tuesday afternoon art class for spring. (See it and the rest of our calendar-in-process here – click on class names for details.) Tilke and her partner are also our upstairs neighbors and our fairy-godparentish landlords who leave us ..read more