Welcome to What We See, conversations across indie education with micro schools, homeschool families, and hybrid programs about what they're actually doing, how they know it's working, and what the metrics miss.

I'm Tomis Parker, and this is the introduction to a conversation series called What We See. Here's what it is: Over the next several months, I'm going to be sitting down with people doing some of the most interesting work in education today; micro-school founders, homeschool parents, hybrid school educators, people who've left or maybe never even joined the conventional education system and are building something else, something they believe in, something hard to capture in conventional terms.

I wanna know what they see in their work, what learning actually looks like when you're paying attention to a kid for hours every da ...