To help you support your child in her experience as a Blue Ridge Sudbury student, we have numerous books, audio tapes, and video tapes you may check out.
| Books | Description |
| The Sudbury Valley Experience | The best articles on the concepts and experience that make up a Sudbury School by founders, staff, students and parents from the first thirty years |
| Reflections on the Sudbury School Model | Continuation of The Sudbury Valley Experience for those that want to dig a little deeper. |
| Free At Last | Best-selling description of the school with stories that illustrate the many unique features of the model. |
| Kingdom of Childhood | Recollections of former students 1994. |
| A Clearer View | What we know now that we did not know 30 years ago. Particularly valuable for parents considering Sudbury education for their children. |
| The Crisis in American Education | A classic in its time. It lays out the foundations of the Sudbury model in clear, easy terms. 1970 |
| Legacy of Trust | A comprehensive study of the personal and professional histories of 188 former students. Includes the results of three earlier studies. 1992. |
| Worlds in Creation | An extensive discussion about how people form their individual conceptions of the world, who they deal with each other socially, and how societies interact. |
| A New Look at Schools | How does Sudbury Valley School model the type of school appropriate for post-industrial societies? Here is a socio-cultural analysis of the history of education presenting the background for the development of 21st century schools. |
| Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley. | How does the prevailing system of schooling in America measure up to modern day requirements? A collection of essays addresses this question from various angles. They were written for the general public and first published in The Metro-West Daily News, the most widely read newspaper in the suburban Boston area. |
| Starting A Sudbury School | A basic introduction to a complex process. It analyzes the various steps that founding groups have taken to get their schools off the ground and allow them to thrive in the early years. |
| Announcing a New School: A Personal Account of the Beginnings of Sudbury Valley School | The particulars involved in starting Sudbury Valley School are described in detail in this personal history of the early planning of the school and the first year of operation (1968-69). |
| And Now for Something Completely Different | Designed for groups, classes, parents, and other interested in a quick introduction to the basics of the Sudbury model - short, easy to read, and provocative. |
| Thinking About the Circle School: An Introduction to Integral Education Ideas and Practices | Integral education proposes to transform schools by improving the fit between society and school, and between school and children. Along the line from society to school to children, integral education offers seamless continuity, purposeful consistency, and greater life satisfaction for children and families. |
| Audio Tapes | Description |
| A Paradigm Shift in Education | A talk given for the Cascade Valley School planning group in Portland Oregon, describing the philosophy underlying Sudbury Valley School. Daniel Greenberg |
| Sudbury Valley: A School for Today | A talk given for a Southern California planning group describing the underlying principles of the Sudbury model. Mimsy Sadofsky. |
| Teaching Children the Uses of Freedom: A School that Practices the Ideas Others Only Preach | A talk given to the annual meeting on the Eris Society in Aspen Colorado. Daniel Greenberg. |
| Democratic Schooling: What Harvard Won't Teach You | A talk given at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Mimsy Sadofsky with Anna Rossetti |
| What SVS is About | An interview with Daniel Greenberg. |
| Children Come First | A radio interview of Mimsy Sadofsky by Daria Brezinsky. |
| Self Learning Schools Appraised | PBS Talk of the Nation interview by Ray Suarez of Mimsy Sadofsky and Mark McCaig, Fairhaven School. |
| SVS 25th Anniversary Retrospective: Five Former Students, Where They are and How They Got There. | A lively panel presentation, including question and answer session with the audience. The alumni range in ages from 22-36, and include a physician, a graphic designer, a mathematics professor, a musician, and a dramatist. |
| An Evening with Three Alumni | Former students reminisce about life at Sudbury Valley School, and what they have been doing since they left; with questions from the audience. |
| A Clearer View. The Thirtieth Anniversary Lectures: What We Know Now That We Didn't Know Thirty Years Ago | The six talks on which the book was based. Daniel Greenberg |
| Free At Last | Audio tape version of the book. |
| Play | Daniel Greenberg |
| Respect for Students | Daniel Greenberg |
| Order in the School | Daniel Greenberg |
| Video Tapes | Description |
| Schools of the Future | Keynote address at the 2000 Arthur Anderson International Conference "Learning in the 21st Century" |
| Survival Tools for the 21st Century | Presentation to a school planning group of Liberty Valley School, describing some of the key components of a Sudbury school education. |
| Introduction to Sudbury Valley School | 30 minute introductory video expressing the mood and atmosphere of Sudbury Valley. |
| SVS 25th Anniversary Retrospective: Five Former Students, Where They are and How They Got There. | A lively panel presentation, including question and answer session with the audience. The alumni range in ages from 22-36, and include a physician, a graphic designer, a mathematics professor, a musician, and a dramatist. |
| An Evening with Three Alumni | Former students reminisce about life at Sudbury Valley School, and what they have been doing since they left; with questions from the audience. |
| Educating a Whole Person in Freedom | A 45 minute documentary prepared by the Japanese National Educational Television Network, NHK, for the purpose of introducing the Japanese public to new educational concepts. Includes extensive footage of life at Sudbury Valley. Sub-titled. |
| Sudbury Valley on Television | A compilation of various television programs featuring the school. |
| What Sudbury Valley is About | An Interview with Daniel Greenberg |
| Voices from the New American Schoolhouse | Voices from the New American Schoolhouse explores life outside the usual educational box. Narrated exclusively by students, the film chronicles life and learning at Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head. Filmmaker Danny Mydlack enjoyed unrestricted access over a two-year period to produce this candid and unblinking encounter with kid-powered learning. This movie is for anyone who ever went to school and imagined something better. |
