Our Work
The Alliance for Self-Directed Education has been working hard to develop a resource for the community that will support folks on their SDE journeys — after more than a year of work with over 60 creators, and the support of The VELA Education Fund, we introduce to you...
The ASDE Compendium
a rich collection of knowledge, wisdom, and lived experiences from practitioners of Self-Directed Education (SDE) around the world.
We have several other major initiatives including Tipping Points, our Resource Directory, Monthly Community Events, our Substack, facilitation of SDE Efforts, among others.
If you have feedback to share about our initiatives or other ideas for how we can support the Self-Directed Education community, do not hesitate to email us.
Tipping Points Magazine
Tipping Points Magazine is the online magazine from the Alliance for Self-Directed Education, designed to amplify and celebrate the voices of our movement. As we shift from primarily words into more forms of media, we invite all forms of expression including (but not limited to) audio, video, art, comics, music, design, and theater.
Tipping Points Press
Tipping Points Press is our book publishing company that amplifies and highlights the diverse voices of this movement, in order to advance our mission of making Self-Directed Education a legitimate, accessible option for all families.
SDE Efforts
SDE Efforts can include launching a new program, planning a play meetup, starting a co-op, starting a deschooling cohort, envisioning and facilitating programming for teens, launching a local advocacy group, starting a center, and so much more. This meetup is meant to be expansive and a place where we can think radically together about all the ways to engage in SDE and bring SDE to our communities in caring, supportive ways. We want to think beyond the boxes of what this can look like and find radically new ways to be in community together, and SDE Efforts is our place to have a support system for folks engaging in this work.
Research Network
The Research Network provides a vehicle for SDE researchers to share, collaborate, and discuss their research, building on existing research, making it readily available, encouraging more SDE research, and creating new research projects.
Resource Directory
Our Resource Directory is a crowdsourced resource where you can find various SDE-related resources in one place. We built this as a resource hub that anyone can easily contribute to, that can shift and change as resources do. This directory is consistently updated and lovingly crowdsourced, with a few dedicated curators making sure the resources are SDE-aligned, and updated frequently.
Substack
The ASDE Substack is a place where we share written articles, read-alouds, event announcements, and an exclusive ASDE Podcast on a thriving platform where we can build an audience and network of folks who are interested in and passionate about Self-Directed Education.
See Also: Our Organizing Team