🍁 ASDE Merch is Here!
PLUS: Events and Offerings
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Newsletter Content:
- ASDE Merch is FINALLY Here!
- Blooming Together from Bria Bloom
- The SHIFT in Puerto Rico
- SDE Discord Communities
- Got something to share? Send it in!
- Share your job posting in our Directory!
- Latest Additions to the Resource Directory
ASDE Merch!
Do you want to wear your SDE pride on your chest? Maybe glance at it every time you take a sip of coffee? Or swing it around on a tote bag? WE do! We have finally created and released an ASDE Merch store. From the ASDE logo, itself, to a rainbow-colored Lifelong Learner emblem, we have fun designs and sayings that can spark curiosity from even the schoolish-minded ;). Even more exciting: we will be making open calls for submission designs soon (more on that coming)!
Blooming Together
Supporting you in Shifting Towards Partnership with the Kids in your Life
Offerings from Bria Bloom:
This November & December I’m launching my very first Group Parent Coaching Cohorts
These cohorts are great for anyone looking for coaching in a supportive, community-based environment. We will have ample chances to dive into specific scenarios, and also to learn from the needs and experiences of other parents involved in this partnership journey.
It is life-changing to shift to a relationship with young people based in partnership and mutual support.
Sign-Up HERE!
Weekend Cohort
Weekday Cohort
I’m Bria, and I absolutely love supporting parents and facilitators in this shift. With over 15 years of experience working with kids and their families, as a parent of a toddler and a teen, and as a person raised as an unschooler and in a trusting, partnership-based relationship with my own parents, I have so much to offer. I know it works because I have lived it since birth.
There is no formula for this path. It is all about your relationships, the values you hold, and the people involved in the relationships that inform how to communicate and partner with one another. I don’t have prescriptive one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, I work with you as individuals and communities and support you in finding your way through this challenging but remarkable work.
I also offer options for one-on-one coaching, sessions for schools or centers, and options for a four-session series with specific themes to support folks in this work. Check out all my offerings and learn more about me here.
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You can also read stories and reflections from my life as a parent at my Substack!
The Shift — Puerto Rico, November 2025
The Shift is a 7-day immersive training for adults who are ready to go all in. It’s an embodied, relational journey to unlearn schoolishness, power-over dynamics, and fear-based control – and instead embrace trust, freedom, and consent as the foundation for learning and living. Why does this matter? Because when we shift how we relate, we open space for deeper connection, healing, and liberation – for ourselves, our kids, and our communities.
A parallel Kids Camp runs alongside the adult training, giving the whole family a chance to experience a consent-based, self-directed culture in action. To make it accessible, there’s a sliding scale for registration, housing opportunities on site, and 5 x $200 credits (offered by My Reflection Matters Village) that can be used toward registration and/or Kids Camp.
Hosted by My Reflection Matters Village, founded by Chemay Morales-James, and facilitated by Radical Learning (Sari & Becka), this gathering is about disrupting adultism and supremacy culture, and co-creating new ways of living and learning together.
As Chemay puts it:
“This is the shift: moving from convincing to creating, from enduring to imagining, from surviving within broken systems to building beyond them.”
If this resonates, join us this November in Boriké/Puerto Rico.
Learn more and register here: The Shift Puerto Rico
SDE Discord Communities
Searching for some support? Check out these SDE-aligned discord communities. They are FREE supportive spaces where folks can ask questions, share ideas, and start conversations based on your own needs/topics.
Self-Directed Education Facilitators Discord Server: Our community is a place to share, collaborate, and discuss your work with other SDE facilitators.
SDE Community Discord Server: a robust server with members of the SDE community — including parents, facilitators, and SDE advocates.
Got Something to Share? Send it in!
As an Alliance, we are always looking to share support, meetups, resources, or anything else that is SDE-aligned in our newsletter. We want to represent and amplify the many diverse folks in this movement!
Email us at info@self-directed.org with your news, events, and more!
Share your job posting in our Directory!
The ASDE Resource Directory includes a specific section for current job postings, and everyone is welcome to post their SDE-aligned jobs. We have been told numerous times that centers and schools found their next hires through this directory. Job postings can ebb and flow with the season, but we will always highlight new directory entries in this newsletter, so please post anytime for visibility!
If you are not a member, you can email entries to info@self-directed.org
Newest Additions to the Resource Directory
Innovation Learning Lab
Innovation is a vibrant homeschool hub where learners take the lead.
Prism Portfolios
Prism is a portfolio-building app for self-directed learning environments. Educators & parents capture learning moments through photos/artifacts, while AI extracts educational insights across subjects, skills & interests. For home and communities.
Evolving Education
We research and democratize educational practices that empower children and youth to take responsibility for their learning, their lives and co-creating a world with values.
Hidden Expectations
Transform your expectations and limiting beliefs to guide learners with clarity and trust.
YouthxYouth
Youth activists and adult allies re-imagining education.
Creating Self-Directed Education Centers
A free webinar about how to create a self-directed education center in your community.
Weave ND
An international online membership supporting parents of neurodivergent unschoolers.
Wildly Inclusive ALC
Dedicated to cultivating an environment where learners can explore and learn at their own pace. Our approach is centered on fostering curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity, encouraging students to take ownership of their learning journey.
Worldschool Pop-up Hub
Our pop-ups are temporary, mobile, week-long gatherings designed to bring worldschoolers together to develop community and explore our planet.
Featured Organizing Partners
Innovation Learning Lab
Innovation Learning Lab is a vibrant homeschool hub where learners (Innovators) ages 5–20 take the lead. Rooted in community, emotional intelligence, and bold, inquiry-based learning. We champion independence, collaboration, and inclusion — welcoming diverse families ready to grow, connect, and inspire. Ages 5–7 welcome with a sibling.
Yuegu Learning Community
Yuegu Learning Community is the first educational institute in China following the model of Sudbury Valley School, in which learners are given the freedom to use their time as they wish, and the responsibility for designing their path to adulthood. Our students range in age from 8 to 18, coming from all over China to learn and grow in their own pace and in their own ways.
For a full list of our Organizing Partners, check out the bottom of our home page here.
In Solidarity,
The ASDE Organizing Team
Alliance for Self-Directed Education, Inc.
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