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2020-04-11The Day it Became Okay to Just Be
Learning to just be during quarantine.
2020-04-08Now is the Time to Care About Public Schools
In the scurry to assert a sense of normalcy, public school districts, educators, and families are missing opportunities to revise assumptions about how education ought to work. Now’s our chance to shift the status quo of conventional schooling.
2020-04-06My Unschooling Testimony
This story involves suicidal thoughts, self-harm, and bullying. Please do not read this if those topics will trigger you. In elementary school, I was the […]
2020-04-02An Open Note for Families During Uncertain Times
A write-up around ways to support families during this time.
2020-04-02Education is a Practice of Freedom
An exploration of the intersections between learning, education and schooling and their relationship to the society we end up with.
2020-04-01Youth Expression Through Body Art
Some young people are getting tattoos and body piercings as an expression of their youth rights movement.
2020-03-27To Brighten Your Day
Artwork created and performed by self-directed children during Coronavirus mandated quarantine.
2020-03-26Evidence Emerges to Support SDE
Some science-backed benefits of unschooling.
2020-03-20Self-Directing in Isolation
What does it mean to self-direct in an isolated world?
2020-03-19Self-Directed Education: Inequitable or Radical?
Many people worry that Self-Directed Education is too risky for children from less privileged households. But is our duty to expose kids to the types of knowledge that confer privilege, or to help them develop their fullest, most meaningful lives?
2020-03-18Community Updates on COVID-19
Ten members of SDE communities discuss their reactions to COVID-19 and quarantine.
2020-03-17Love and Learning in a Time of Coronavirus
Recent journal entries from the Director of one self-directed center.
2020-03-12Life Is an Adventure
One person’s decision to direct their own education and why doing it should be the norm.
2020-03-05What Happens When People Start Designing Their Own Learning Paths?
How I designed an “informal PhD” and what other folks are doing in the same direction.
2020-02-27Between Childhood and Maturity
Adults act as if there is an invisible barrier between childhood and adulthood. Suddenly, you expect me to make a difference….but you can’t expect the very people you ridiculed to save you.
2020-02-20Adult Playgrounds
Modeling play and freedom for adults (in hopes that it will help some adults deschool).
2020-02-13The Psychological Ecology of Self-Directed Education
One important role of the group in SDE.
2020-02-06Is Self-Directed Education Producing Model Workers For An Innovation-Based Economy?
Some education experts and “edupreneurs” are looking to Self-Directed Education as the best way to train young people for a competitive global economy. While SDE may promote the skills, additives and behaviors most rewarded in an innovation-based economy, the values of freedom and empowerment of children are in tension with the project of education as economic indoctrination.
2020-01-30From “Video Game Addict” to Computer Programmer
A lifelong unschooler and recent “graduate” of self-directed program Pathfinder Community School transitioned from being obsessed with Minecraft to mastering multiple computer languages in less than a year.
2020-01-20Austin joins Flying Squads as a Collaborator
The latest SDE community to join the recent Flying Squad movement of stepping out of space pre-defined for youth.