This is a video from the 2nd SDE Weekend in which we explore the following questions, and more: How do we show up in self-directed education spaces for neurodivergent people or as neurodivergent people? How can we extend our understanding of neurodiversity and hold spaces for people to be able to learn, facilitate, and be happy?

This is a video from the second SDE Weekend. Through storytelling, Lou translates her entrepreneurial and unschooling journey and inspires hope and ideas inside each individual to creatively think outside the box.

This is a video from the second SDE Weekend. Domari opened up the floor to hear from community members about their successes and struggles when it comes to their SDE journey, and getting feedback on how ASDE can better support the community and their young people on their learning journeys!

A video from the second SDE Weekend in which the speaker explores the potential role of imagination (along with accompanying playfulness and experimentation) in shaping radically different ways of relating to each other, approaching “education,” and restructuring society itself.

The first episode of a podcast about the intersections of liberation, community, parenting, deschooling and decolonization.

People often ask me “how do kids learn math?” But they’re missing the better question of how children learn at all…

Rebellion in Self-Directed Education

Due to the unique nature of each individual, all real learning, no matter what the setting, is individualized and Self-Directed.

“We’re not trying to hack the system in our unschooling – we’re trying to burn it down.”

A video and transcript from The SDE Weekend discussing unschooling as an act of resistance against white supremacy, racial/gender stereotypes, ableism, and other forms oppression that centered marginalized voices.

An excerpt from the new 30th Anniversary edition.

Learning that’s lost in school can be found in many ways, if it needs to be found at all.

After years of having conversation with my mom about unschooling she still doesn’t seem to get it. This article is an attempt to explain it to her and anyone else struggling with the concept of unschooling.

An excerpt from the latest Youth Liberation Now zine by Filler Distro.

Talking to others about SDE is frequently frustrating, due to their misconceptions which they often do not wish to challenge.

Through regular visits to a friend’s farm with my pre-school age kids, I learn how self-directed learning about parenting profoundly shapes their learning.

Q&As with Peter Gray on his books published by Tipping Points Press.

When we hurry our children through their days, are we inadvertently asking them to rush through their childhoods?

A poem about being uprooted.

Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children. We are all indoctrinated from birth in ways of “because I said so.”