What We See is a conversation series across Indie Education. Microschools, homeschool families, and hybrid programs talking about what they're actually doing, how they know it's working, and what the metrics miss.

Justine Wilson spent seventeen years in conventional schools, teaching and then leading buildings across Ohio, Colorado, Egypt, Brazil, and Qatar, before founding Curious & Kind Education in Sarasota, Florida. Now in its third year, Curious & Kind is a forest school that homeschool families choose one to three days a week, on a campus with a creek, a mud kitchen, and a well-loved rope swing.

Justine walks through a typical morning, from the stump circle where the whole group co-plans the day to the offerings kids drift between, and she describes what she watches kids build in themselves that a report card was neve ...