Common approaches rarely produce Uncommon results

Welcome to the Uncommon Sense School!

If you are here, you likely are looking for something, something missing in your or your child’s education. You aren’t sure what it is or what it is called but you know it’s important…

When looking to build something, you start with a foundation, a simple, reliable means of support upon which you will build everything. In a person, that foundation is who we are and how we interact with the world around us. This foundation has many names: common sense, life skills, real-world wisdom, critical thinking, self-reliance, or what we like to call tested confidence. You see, for some unknown reason, the modern education system skips this essential first step. They start building your education without ever building your foundation and just assume(?) you have one. I ask you, what kind of building stands the test of time with a poor (or no) foundation? No, like anything else, this foundation, this sense or skill, MUST BE TAUGHT!

This is the primary role of the school, to help students of any age or path, build (or rebuild) their foundation.

We have developed two series of courses (Life Skills and Dreams) which address this glaring hole in people’s education. Presented as online courses or taught in-person in our classroom, our problem is not the material, it is the willingness of individuals to admit they lack this foundation. Confident they have “common sense”, they struggle on blindly, hoping to fake-it-till-they-make-it. Why take chances with your (or your child’s) educational development by “hoping” you (or they) have a good foundation? Replace your blind confidence with tested confidence and boldly build your (or their) life and enable it’s success.

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The secondary role of this school is to provide resources and instruction to augment this newly developed foundation

Properly equipped with this foundational knowledge and tested confidence, we provide additional guidance and support only available from a school of this type. Whether through succinct online or in-person tutoring, mentorship, books, blogs, individualized strength training, or even sales training, we provide as many avenues as possible to help anyone become their best self. Imagine access to your own professor, able to ask or receive instruction on almost anything you might be struggling with. What could you accomplish with someone like that in your corner? What better investment could you make in yourself?

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The third role of this school is to bring parents and children together under this unique learning opportunity.

With the omission of these foundational elements from the modern education system, the onus has fallen on parents to fill in these important concepts with their children. However most households require both parents to work, making it harder and harder to find the requisite time, despite good intentions. Additionally, parents themselves may not have sufficient foundations, victims of an ever increasing lack of focus on this essential step. We offer the solution: take the classes together.

What better way to ensure these foundational elements are cemented in your children then to go with them on the journey. Most videos are less than 1 hr, accessible 24hrs a day, and provide structure and comprehensiveness you can use to open a dialogue with your children about all of these important concepts. It isn’t easy to talk about many of these topics. Let the classes be your opening to all those conversations you know you need to have. Don’t risk missing out on developing core tenets in your kids. Use our school (and structure) to equip them for life. Who knows, you might even learn something yourself!

One way we have tried to demonstrate this opportunity is with the Uncommon Baker Project, a collaboration between my wife and daughter to teach baking skills and offer yummy, natural items to local residents. Started as a way to market my wife’s cottage bakery in our home, we have expanded into opportunities for other mothers/daughters to sign up and come bake in our kitchen. Together. Imagine learning how to bake delicious items in a small, home setting while getting invaluable one on one time with your kid. It is a fun way to learn a skill, eat some good food, and form a lasting memory.

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We are excited to announce our recent expansion into home and charter schools!

Through developing this school, we became aware of another missing facet of the education system that we could fill. There appears to be a general absence of qualified individuals to teach core STEM fields in the K-12 age range and College Age. As a former biology professor, Dr. B. has taught for years at the university level and now seeks to bring his unique knowledge to home and charter schools. Able to pivot to almost any level of education, we can offer direct Ph.D. level instruction for your child’s development. However, anyone familiar with charter schools knows most require an invite before they can be used as a resource. It is here we need your help. Request our school be added (Santa Barbara, Ventura, and LA County only please) and let us bring our pedagogy to your home or classroom!

Whether you are homeschooled, in public school, private school, trade school, pursuing adult education, continuing education, working full time or enrolled in college, the Uncommon Sense School is for you. Don’t go through life unprepared, hoping for the best. Join our school, sign up your children, or better yet, do it together. Let us fill your/their backpack with everything you/they need to make your/their life’s journey a prosperous one. Develop your foundation!