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2019-09-12Not-Back-to-School Survival Thriving
End of summer may highlight the social nonconformity of living without school, but it can also be a time for celebrating the family’s moves toward what actually works, and witnessing thriving!
2019-09-10Rachel Winston Rippy in Memoriam
A friend introduced me to Rachel in 2016. I had heard rumors of the Fifteenth Street School, the first Summerhill inspired school in New York […]
2019-09-05Growing Up Unschooled
Unschooling or SDE Schools: What we all need is community
2019-08-29Liberating The Teacher
A first person account of a directed learning seminar that didn’t happen
2019-08-22Conscious Bodies: How Self-Directed Education creates alive and aware individuals and communities
A focus on how connections create awareness both on the individual scale as well as the community scale.
2019-08-15Anarcho-Feminist Psychology: Contributing to Postformal Criticality
Part three of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-08-08Electric Fences, Chalk Lines, and the Spirit of Self Defense
This post describes a significant change we have recently made to our judicial system at Hudson Valley Sudbury School.
2019-08-01Swimming in the Deep End
What happens when we walk alongside our kids instead of throwing up invisible boundaries.
2019-07-25Blake Boles Keynote
Alternative Education Resource Education Conference 2019
2019-07-18Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool
Part two of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-07-11Voices of Children
The Story of the Fifteenth Street School
2019-07-04Fear and Loathing with Self-Directed Learners
A first person account of self-directed learners taking appropriate risk, managing anger and fear. Further musing and speculation about the nature of fear and adult discomfort with children taking risks.
2019-06-20Anarchist Pedagogy in Action: Paideia, Escuela Libre
Part one of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-06-13School Denies the Body
Exploring the role of school in mind-body separation
2019-06-13An Education for the End of the World, Part II
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
2019-06-06Unschooling and Democratic Education: A dysfunctional marriage?
One parent’s experience of having moved from unschooling to democratic education, the differences and similarities.
2019-05-30An Education for the End of the World, Part I
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
2019-05-22Is Homeschooling Just Coercive Education at Home, or Can It Be Self-Directed Education?
Reflections on a homeschooling journey.
2019-05-06Los Riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida
¿Cuáles son los verdaderos riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida? En este artículo Rebecka Koritz examina los mitos y los miedos acerca de esta innovadora opción educativa.
2019-05-02Let’s Talk About Screens; “Screen Time” and SDE
How SDE spaces allow us to navigate the proliferation of screens.