Sally Carless, M.Ed.

Tending the Children, Tending the Planet, Tending the Soul

The founding director and Chief Visionary Officer of Global Village School, Sally has more than twenty-five years' experience in alternative education including administration, teaching, curriculum development, American Indian Education, outdoor education, and program development. Sally has a Master's Degree in Education (Curriculum and Instruction), a B.A. in Wilderness Recreation, and a California Teaching Credential. She also completed a year's graduate study in Depth Psychology and studied dream tending at Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Passionately committed to a vision of a more just and peaceful world, Sally believes that education is a key component of progressive social change. Her deep concerns about intolerance, violence and inequality in the world led to the creation of Global Village School in 1999. Global Village is an international K-12 homeschool diploma program with a creative flexible approach and a focus on peace, justice, diversity, and sustainability.

Sally has given presentations on peace education, homeschooling, learning styles, and educating for a better world at various locations in the U.S. as well as in Thailand, India, and Australia. Venues have included the Association for Global New Thought, Soka University, the International Democratic Education Conference, AERO National Alternative Education Conference, International Montessori Foundation, National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools, and the Network of Spiritual Progressives.

Sally is the primary author of Global Village School’s Whole Child Healthy Planet K-8 Curriculum. She wrote several high school courses as well, including Planetary Stewardship, Global Spirituality and Activism, Reflections on Peacemaking, and Literature of Diversity. She has also written curriculum for Link TV. Sally is a regular contributor to the Ojai Post and the Global Village Voice. She has also published articles on Commondreams.org and in Paths of Learning and HopeDance.

Sally lives in the Southern California foothills with bears, coyotes, and a few people for neighbors. She loves being outdoors, and enjoys photography, gardening, music, dreamwork, learning, laughing, yoga, and helping make the world a more peaceful and loving place.

Press

Various feature articles and interviews including: New Horizons for Learning, The Santa Barbara Independent, the Institute for Humane Education, The Ojai Valley News, KPFK Pacifica Radio, HUB (Humanity Unites Brilliance) E-Academy, KVTA radio, the StarChild Network, and the Ojai Bubble.

Selected articles, videos, and interviews:

StarChild Network Interview - October 2011
A discussion about education, spirituality, and personalizing education through homeschooling with Global Village School.

Humane Education in Action: Bridging the Distance Between Schooling and a Better World
Institute for Humane Education interview - December 2010

Recipient of Ojai Peace Coalition’s Noble Peace Prize, August 2009
Article: Global Village School Founder honored on International Peace Day Sally Carless, founder and Executive Director of Global Village School, received the Ojai Peace Coalition’s Noble Peace Prize. Each year, the Coalition honors a local individual who works for and exhibits peace in their lives...Video

Looking Back on the Last Decade of Global Village School
The drive to Sally Carless’ house is indicative of her nature. The road is a small, private road with huge boulders and wild sage lining its edges. Massive oak trees suspend their limbs above the road, adding a green canopy of vegetation, and breaking up the sunlight with patches of shade. ... Here, surrounded by natural serenity, is where you can find Sally Carless, founder and visionary of Global Village School…

Educating for a Better World presentation (video) 2008
A workshop featuring Khalif Williams, Ron Miller, and Sally Carless at the 2008 AERO national alternative education conference.

CONTACT:

E-mail sally "at" globalvillageschool "dot" org or call (805) 208-2951