A focus on how connections create awareness both on the individual scale as well as the community scale.

Part three of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.

This post describes a significant change we have recently made to our judicial system at Hudson Valley Sudbury School.

What happens when we walk alongside our kids instead of throwing up invisible boundaries.

Alternative Education Resource Education Conference 2019

Part two of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.

The Story of the Fifteenth Street School

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.

Maybe it isn’t that school is so structured because kids are incapable, but that kids seem incapable because we only see what they are doing in schools that are so structured.

Part one of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.

Exploring the role of school in mind-body separation

A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.

One parent’s experience of having moved from unschooling to democratic education, the differences and similarities.

A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.

Reflections on a homeschooling journey.