Resources

Our Published Work

Springboard 2024 White Paper

Distinctive Pedagogies that Address the Meaning Crisis

2023 Springboard Convening Report

State-of-the Field for exemplar institutes in this space

The Gap Year Frontier

Published in the Holistic Education Review by Springboard Founder

2023 Annual Report

Recap of a year at Springboard

Media On Our Partners

Deep Springs CBS 60 Minutes

Highlight video on Deep Springs College

The New York Times: The Anti-College Is on the Rise

Early profile highlighting Outer Coast, Deep Springs, and Tidelines

Stanford University: New fellowship connects students to the richness of rural life

Thoreau College and Tidelines Institute highlighted in new People, Politics, and Place fellowship.

What’s the Opposite of Harvard? A Year of Honest Work

Essay by Deep Springs Alum, Ben Samuels

Self-Authorship and Co-authorship: finding Democracy in Storytelling and Narrative

Chapter highlighting Outer Coast in the book ‘Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments

Fresh College Model

Heart and Soil Magazine highlighting Thoreau college

Commonwealth Beacon: Colleges need an experiential learning revolution

The case for an apprenticeship public service college, by Eric Schwartz, founder of the College of Social Innovation

The Microcollege Podcast

Episodes on a variety of institutes in the field, recorded and produced by Thoreau College.