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Why self-directed education works for PDA kids, and a sneak preview of what my research found

As the number of neurodivergent learners increases, more families are turning to Self-Directed Education.

Reflections on Raising a School

How can fostering agency help safeguard our kids?

An excerpt from Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting by Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW. This excerpt is about a Black mom practicing liberation with her Black 13-year-old co-learner.

Formed from his years of experience in the field, Blake Boles shares a theory that unschoolers and dirtbags are the same species: people who step outside institutions, question inherited “musts,” and build meaningful, high-freedom lives off the beaten path.

The Alliance for Self-Directed Education responds to the Call for Inputs of the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Conventions on the Rights of Children in order to acknowledge the possibilities of seeing education as far greater than what happens within the standardized school model of institutional authoritarian instruction.

When a life-changing medical diagnosis upended our family’s routines overnight, I was grateful for the landing space our unschooling life already provided for us. I also came to lean harder on the deschooling practices I found through ASDE in order to be able to show up in my family, and the greater world, as a more capable and healed version of myself.

What I’ve learned from letting go in education

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if college marketing mail said what it really means for many of those approaching from a less conventional background

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In this article you can find out what dyslexic kids, who have grown up together in a self-directed setting, have to say about reading, reading instruction, community, and dyslexia. Spoiler alert: Consent and listening to kids are prime in our story even when they rub against what adult voices in SDE and adult voices in literacy education have to say.

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An invitation to share your experience with Self-Directed Education

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What deschooling really asks of us

The reality of unschooling as a poor single parent facing serious health issues, and the community we’re building in spite of it.

Why does “The Left” continue to defend Public Schooling while the expanding ecosystem of alternatives – fueled by School Choice legislation – is producing fertile ground for liberal values and their pedagogical roots?