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Book Study

Program Models and Innovation

Book Study: Exploring Unconventional Education Models with "School's Out"

SESSION DATES & TIMES COMING IN AUGUST 2026
Audience Classification: Digital Learning
Audience Expertise: All Levels - This session is intentionally designed to engage and provide value across experience levels-from beginners to seasoned leaders.
Grade Level Focus: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
Primary Audience: All attendees
Does this session focus on a specific product? Yes – Created by our organization – The session includes content about a product or service that our organization has developed or offers.
Abstract Description : Education news these days is replete with references to offbeat learning models like microschools, hybrid homeschools, ESAs and “unbundled” schooling, all flourishing outside the traditional school system and all enabled in some way by technology. Now’s your chance to take a deep dive into these rapidly growing forms of unconventional education with the author of School’s Out (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026). Digital learning OG Mickey Revenaugh was inspired to explore the alternatives that an increasingly diverse array of American families have been gravitating toward since the pandemic. She found both interesting parallels to online/blended learning and reasons to be optimistic about the impact of these “thousand flowers” on the mainstream system. Book study participants will be invited to share their own experiences with this phenomenon and hash out their worries, doubts and speculations. A discount code will be available for purchase of School’s Out prior to the conference.

Learning Objectives:

  • By the end of this session, participants will be able to enumerate the many facets of unconventional learning as a growing trend in the American education landscape
  • By the end of this session, participants will be able to articulate their current concerns about unconventional education as well as debate their views about its future.