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2025-01-08Executive Director Announcement, New Events & Resources, and More

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: 📢 Executive Director Announcement 🌱 Sudbury Roundtable! 💻 Learning Planet Festival RCE Events and ASDE Events! 📖 Invitation to […]

2024-12-30Last Call for End-of-the-Year Donations! (and a special ART raffle!) 🌱

Link to original newsletter. It’s your last chance to donate in 2024! If you’ve been thinking about donating but haven’t yet, now is a good […]

2024-12-27Our 2024 Annual Report

Link to original newsletter. One more chance to donate in 2024... Happy December, all! We hope you’re having a wonderful end of the year. We’re […]

2024-12-10Reflecting on how we’re showing up for Youth Rights

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: 📜 Youth Rights Accreditation Partnership 📝 Sign the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Education ✨ Featured Organizational Members 📚 Tipping […]

2024-11-13ASDE’s November 2024 Newsletter

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: ASDE joins Rights-Centric Education Network as Founding Member PIE videos released! Remote Admin Support for SDE Centers Upcoming Events […]

2024-10-16In-person gathering, SDE Documentary Episode, PIES, and more!

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: Last Chance for Pie FUNdraiser ASDE In-Person Gathering – Preferences Survey ends Oct. 18 Open Call for SDE Youth […]

2024-10-07College/Higher Education Resource Directory for Self-Directed Learners

This guide explores making the decision whether to attend college or not, how to choose one, the application process, how to keep your self-directed values in college, and more.

2024-10-07A Self-Directed Learner’s Decision to Attend College

This personal story shares what it was like to decide whether to pursue higher education after growing up as a self-directed learner.

2024-10-03Mutual Aid, Survey, New Tipping Points Editor, & Events

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: Mutual Aid Community Asks ASDE In-Person Gathering – Preferences Survey Our New Tipping Points Magazine Editor My Reflection Matters […]

2024-09-26LAST CHANCE for Tickets to Life Without School – A Youth in SDE Panel

Link to original newsletter. Life Without School A Youth in SDE Panel Our youth panel, On Life Without School, starts in a little over 24 […]

2024-09-19Let’s Get PIED! An ASDE FUNdraiser

Link to original newsletter. An ASDE FUNdraiser Let’s Get PIED! ASDE IS HAVING A LITTLE FUN THIS NOT BACK TO SCHOOL SEASON! Every year ASDE […]

2024-09-10When can we stop going back to school?

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: Erasure of Community-Rooted Work Life without School-Youth in SDE, a Youth Panel ASDE’s Organizational Member Features ASDE Facilitators Discord […]

2024-08-16SDE Facilitator Supports and Resources

Whether one is currently working as an SDE facilitator or is in charge of hiring SDE facilitators, this article shares insights into daily and long-term supports, resources, and practices that current SDE facilitators have found useful.

2024-08-01Exciting Resources for and from the SDE Community

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: Free Not Back to School Webinar – from Radical Learning Brochure about ASDE and SDE Share the SDE Situation […]

2024-07-29How to Become an SDE Facilitator

Whether one is thinking about becoming an SDE facilitator or has ever wondered what an SDE facilitator does, this article shares insights into the commonalities across different SDE centers and explores key aspects associated with working as an SDE facilitator.

2024-07-11Unfactual Facts

A collection of made-up statistics about schooling culture that, on first glance, could sound plausible, until one starts to really consider what is being stated as fact.

2024-07-07Spotlighting the Issues with ‘Schooling’ in Slovenia

It is necessary to raise awareness about how some countries, such as the Republic of Slovenia, have legislated grammatically incorrect statements, such as, “compulsory schooling” rather than “compulsory education,” which has led to many violations of the Rights of the Child.

2024-06-28The Roles We Play: How Adultism and Schooling Dehumanize Us All

This article takes a closer look at how the roles that students, teachers, and parents are often cast into dehumanize us and how to move away from oppressive and adultist roles towards more authentic ways of being.

2024-06-20Exploring Without Limits: My Self-Directed Learning Adventure

In my early days of unschooling, I started off my learning journey right from home, exploring subjects on my own terms. From there, I took what I learned and put it into practice out in the real world. I tried my hand at everything from working with computers to getting my hands dirty in a cowshed. Along the way, my friends and I started a learning club where we learned everything we could from video editing, 3D animation to programming.

2024-06-14New Groups, ASDE Discord Server, Support Call, and more!

Link to original newsletter. Newsletter Content: Deep Lounge Place Dreamer’s Deschooling Camp Parenting for Collective Liberation – An ASDE Community Call ASDE’s New Discord server […]