Matt Beaudreau - Acton Placer Founder and President

<p><strong>Matt Beaudreau</strong></p> <p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p> <p>Matt Beaudreau is the Founder of Acton Academy Placer Schools. He is also the co-founder at Apogee Strong Mentorship Program. He helps driven entrepreneurs open student-led campuses for real education and Freedom.</p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong></p> <p>00:00:13 Favorite thing about working about young learners.</p> <p>00:05:28:17 Examples where you said “No, I can’t do this. I don’t like it.”</p> <p>00:13:32:21 If you’re a parent who is frustrated right now and cannot handle big changes right now but wants to do something different, what would be your advice?</p> <p>00:21:12:19 Tell us about your new program.</p> <p>00:28:31:12 What is your prediction of what will happen in K-12 with all the change happening in the world?</p> <p>00:32:27:04 If you could create a metaphor for comparing conventional schooling with what we're doing in Acton?</p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <p>The&nbsp; kids will make you fired up. That’s your “why” and that’s your reason.</p> <p>I would tell parents, “Listen to that inner voice that’s telling you ‘I went to conventional school, I turned out fine.’” I don’t want “fine” for my kids, I want them to be able to create a magical world for themselves and to live this amazing story.</p> <p>We get stuck into making decisions and parenting based on:</p> <ol> <li>If it’s going to be too hard or not. And</li> <li>What do other people think?</li> </ol> <p><strong>Social Links:</strong></p> <p><strong>Website</strong> | <a href="https://www.actonplacer.com/"><u>https://www.actonplacer.com/</u></a></p> <p><strong>LinkedIn</strong> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-beaudreau-071a5b99"><u>https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-beaudreau-071a5b99</u></a></p> <p><strong>Instagram</strong> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mattbeaudreau"><u>https://www.instagram.com/mattbeaudreau</u></a></p> <p><strong>Twitter</strong> | <a href="https://twitter.com/mattbeaudreau"><u>https://twitter.com/mattbeaudreau</u></