TJEd discussion

Is Thomas Jefferson Education Dead? I use to see all kinds of information and discussion about TJEd but it looks like nothing new has been added for several years. Have other educational methods surpassed TJEd in popularity?

TJEd is alive and well. I don't know what you mean when you say "nothing new has been added for several years" but Oliver DeMille has written/co-written a few new books in the past several years. Are you already familiar with TJEd for Teens? How about The Student Whisperer? Or LeaderShift? What about The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom or FreedomShift: 3 Choices to Reclaim America's Destiny?
There is a very active Yahoo Groups for those using this approach called TJEd-MUSE and it has posts every day where hundreds of families share how TJEd is working for them. LEMI classes and Commonwealth Schools based on TJEd are popping up all over the place.
So I don't know where you have been used to seeing all kinds of information and discussion about TJEd and why you aren't any more, but I still am.

There is also a pretty active TJED Facebook page too.

That, too! ;)

I did not mean to offend anyone. I use to get most of my TJEd information through George Wythe University, Shannon Brooks, and Monticello College. There were other various TJEd websites that I have deleted that only had dated material. I lived in Dallas metroplex and participated in a book club with several families that practiced some form of TJEd. I think TJEd has many strengths that I have used with my own children who go to public school. I am not a TJEd hater but was asking what I felt was a legitimate question.

The George Wythe University hour radio show in Monticello, Utah, which is not specifically associated with TJEd but involved individuals in the movement, was a great source of information and inspiration to me. I read the selections each week and listened to the show. I still listen to the recordings from the program on occasion.

Join the TJedMUSE yahoo group.

I did yesterday thanks to Jody Jarvis's relpy.

I can see that for non-homeschoolers there may be a lull in new content. There seems to be a resurfacing lately with Oliver DeMille and Orrin Woodward's new book "Leader Shift". However, that book does not even focus on TJEd specifically. I also believe that speakers are not circulating like there were a few years ago so less people are hearing about it. I do have new people emailing me often about TJEd, so I think it's growth is more word-of-mouth now like it was in the beginning.

Sorry if you thought I thought you were being offensive. Not at all. Tone is sometimes so hard to read in texts. I was just saying that I didn't know where you used to get your information from that you weren't getting it from any more. I didn't know if you had heard of the newest writings by Oliver. Or the other places where I get my info from. Your question IS a legitimate one and my apologies for making you think I was not treating it as such.

GWU is still going as far as I know. They just had a Statesmanship Invitational in April. They have moved up to SLC now and are no longer in Cedar City. Leadership of the University has changed, so communication from there may have changed. I used to get a newsletter from them. Not sure if I unsubscribed or if they have stopped or are in transition or something.

Monticello College is still going lead by Dr. Brooks. I do get emails from them regularly advertising their classes. I never knew he did a radio show. Might be something more local to Utah? (I am in NV).

There is also the DeMille's website tjed.org They send out an email with things regularly (The Weekly Mentor - sign up at http://www.tjed.org/freebies/bonus-gi... and another one called Inspire - just go to their freebies section), and they also have a subscription service called This Day in History that is very good.

I think the TJED Universe has gotten a lot broader in the last few years and there are dozens of leaders and groups out there pulling from TJED principles but not necessarily using the word TJED -- most of them do refer to Leadership Education, which is a more generic, unbranded term. They all kind of have their own take on things and they are all independent of the others, though many of them coordinate for projects and events. I think of TJED as a brand of Leadership Education (the first in our generation and the one that spawned most of the others of our time). Two of my favorite Leadership Education organizations are: Diann Jeppson's Family Builder Program and Family Forum, http://www.familyforum.co, and LEMI (Leadership Education Mentoring Institute http://www.lemimentortraining.com. Diann Jeppson is the current Chair of GWU.

TJED was life-changing for me initially. Now I'm living it, rather than actively researching it. So my interest is still strong but I'm not actively seeking new information on it. So, yes, in my life it's not on the tip of my tongue anymore; it's in what I'm doing instead.