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Inside Zero School

In 2026, our team helped establish a new kind of school on Gili Meno, Indonesia. These short films capture the experience, from the first experiments to everyday life on the island.

We’re Building a School on a Tiny Indonesian Island A Boat Ride… Just to Buy Laptops for Students How I Track Student Progress in a Tiny Island School The First Day of Our Island Microschool Experiment My Son Skipped SAT Prep… to Hunt a Python (It Bit Him) Started a Microschool on a Remote Island… Ended Up in Surgery Finished School Before Lunch… So We Built Zen Gardens Helping Kids Do Hard Things (With a Handstand Challenge) Can Kids Solve an Island’s Food Problem? The Secret to Making Project-Based Learning Actually Work Brutal Surf Coach Breakdown (What He Got Right & Wrong) If This Doesn’t Count as AP Environmental Science… What Does? Two Rooms. Two Schedules. Two Microschool Strategies. Students Debated This Ancient Paradox for 20 Minutes The Question Every Microschool Should Be Asking Before You Give Students Freedom, Teach Them This The Rules Students Don’t Get to Vote On How We’re Preparing 20 Tablets for a Tiny Island School The First 7 Systems I’d Build in Any Classroom 83 Kids Signed Up. Now We Find Out If This Works. The $11 Classroom Hack That Builds Independent Learners A Cultural Ceremony for Our New School in Indonesia How to Build a Self-Directed Classroom Without Wall Space AI Freed Me to Focus on the Students Who Needed Me School in the Morning. Scuba Diving in the Afternoon. 2 Lessons From Teaching 115 Kids With Tablets in Indonesia We Started a Microschool on a Tiny Island. Here’s What Worked. 2 Things I’d Fix Before Starting Another Microschool Henry Would Like His Participation Points Back We Didn’t Have Traditional Teachers. Was That an Advantage?