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Discover a world beyond traditional schooling for your child with
The Unschooler’s Educational Dictionary, which takes a lighthearted approach to introducing you to the most essential concepts related to education, schooling, child development, the brain, and education in general.
About the author
Jonas Koblin was born in 1978 in Munich, Germany. He received a Waldorf school education and had a stint with FC Bayern. At the age of eleven, Koblin was invited to live with the then-richest family in America—an experience that taught him the good and bad sides of ultimate wealth.
After dropping out of high school, Koblin traveled to India, where he was confronted with real poverty. Age nineteen he then started a nonprofit and a series of charity events. By 2007, Koblin was juggling college and three companies simultaneously. After some commercial success (Madonna became a client), Koblin prioritized personal growth over commercial success and took a step back. He completed the Hoffman Process, met his wife and pursued his interest in education.
In 2016, Koblin began producing educational videos aimed at introducing aspiring educators to the social sciences. In 2020, he co-authored a lesson on Active Learning with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman, and in 2021, the Sprouts channel reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Today, Sprouts Schools' video lessons are available in over ten languages, viewed by millions of students each month, and are integrated into university curricula worldwide. In 2024, Jonas Koblin was awarded a prize for Best Open-Access Education by TREFF–the Education Film Festival in Tromsø, Norway.
Besides Sprouts Schools, Koblin also founded Mali, a virtual companion that has helped over hundred thousand new parents through the first 1,000 days of their child's life, and the Sprouts Kindergarten that is focusing on early project-based learning.
He lives in Bangkok with his wife and their three children.
Summary
Discover a world beyond traditional schooling for your child with The Unschooler’s Educational Dictionary, which takes a lighthearted approach to introducing you to the most essential concepts related to education, schooling, child development, the brain, and education in general.
Foreword
• How I
will leverage my platform (specific ideas):
• We have
over 100+ patrons that we can engage
• We have
at least 10,000+ views on each new video we release. We can create a video on
the book alone and add promotional content to each video we release on other
topics.
• We have
100+ families who send or have sent their children to our school.
• We have
200,000+ families who used our parenting app. Around 5% of them used it in
English. We could potentially send them an invite to read the book.
• Fellow
influencers who will provide endorsements and help support the book:
• Got some
ideas but need to check.
• Media /
podcast / Social Media Influencer connections who will feature/review the book
and/or do an interview with me:
• There are
many podcasts and youtube channels that cover educational reform, home and
unschooling. I think we could get some of these shows to interview me.
• An active
and engaged mailing list:
• We have
2000+ subscribers to our newsletter, many of whom are parents and teachers
• Memberships
/ organizations who might support the book or order in bulk:
• Our own
school would order hundreds of copies on a cycle.
• Maybe
some other private schools we work with that purchase the license to our
content.
