417 Unschoolers Adventure Club
Social support and group events in a secular setting for natural learning families of the 417 area.
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Co-ops & Resource Centers
Organizations that provide support, resources, and community for
ALC Copenhagen
et tilknytningsbaseret hjemmeunderviserfællesskab med rødder i den selvstyrede læring.
ALC Nature Brasil
Centro de Aprendizagem Ágil voltado para aprendizes auto Dirigidos.
ALC Querétaro
Somos facilitadores, educadores, emprendedores, homeschoolers y algunos otros somos padres que estamos cambiando la educación para el siglo 21.
ALC São Paulo
The first Agile Learning Center in Brazil serving as a learning community for young people and adults.
Abot Tala
A Liberated Learners center near Manila, Philippines, that helps young people direct their education outside of the conventional school system.
Abrome
A Self-Directed Education learning community where people ages 5-19 come together to play and engage in “deep, meaningful, enduring learning experiences that allow them to lead remarkable lives” — free from coercion, hierarchy, and standardization
Agile Learning Center of New Orleans (formerly Dat School)
A full-time learning center for children age 4 and up. Part of ALC network.
Alcove Learning Cooperative
A Liberated Learners Center offering mentoring, classes, and community.
Alder Commons
Alder Commons is a community space where kids and adults alike can attend workshops & classes, and spend their time freely. Our Members are co-workers, makers, artists, and learners of all ages.
Anchorage Agile Learning Community
A thinking outside of the box conversation on how to create a different type of learning experience & environment for the future of our children and the community.
Animalia Learning Center for Homeschoolers and Unschoolers
A nurturing, Self-Directed space with a mix of learners between ages 4 – 19 sharing an intimate space for maximum 25 full-time and part-time kids.
Anna Julia Cooper Learning & Liberation Center
A cooperative, learner-centered, and self-directed community, rooted in a radical Black queer feminist politic.
Atlas Agile Learning Center
An Agile Learning Center based just outside of Athens, GA supporting kids ages 5-14.
BLDG 61: Boulder Library Makerspace
A free community workshop that provides maker education and technology to the public in a creative and inclusive environment.
Barn Hill Learning Community
A community that utilises a variety of approaches to promote self-directed learning and emotional well-being.
Bay State Learning Center
A non-coercive environment for students ages 10-19, with no grades, tests, or specific curricular requirements.
Berkshire Freedom Academy
Berkshire Freedom Academy is the Berkshires first self-directed education center and community hub for all branches of the homeschooling umbrella but with a focus on self-direction.
Big Bad Wolf House
Self-Directed Education community in SW Detroit, Michigan for ages 5-16. 3 & 5 day options.
Blended Learning Academy
An alternative education option for families in upstate South Carolina
Bloom Academy
A self-directed learning center for children ages 5-11, offering diverse, informal, and optional workshops taught by staff, parents, kids, and volunteers in the community.
Blue Bridge School
Blue Bridge is an independent, Agile Learning Center located in Grand Rapids, MI. We provide Self-Directed Education in an environment that values liberation, social responsibility, and community.
Brooklyn Apple Academy
A play-based homeschool coop.
Bucks Learning Cooperative
A community for teenagers engaging in Self-Directed Education instead of attending conventional schools, to create a life and education based on their interests, strengths and goals.
Bungalow Lane ALC
An Agile Learning Community in Fresno, California, dedicated to cultivating an environment that nurtures children’s natural desire to learn.
CAAD Comunidad de Aprendizaje Autodirigido
Espacio para niños desescolarizados a partir de 6 años de edad, eventos, talleres, convivencia, asesorías y tutorías. Acompañamiento a padres homeschoolers
CEREHARD
Re-Design ngo Resource Center for Holistic Education
Canton Learning Collaborative
We are a Liberated Learners affiliated self-directed learning center for teenagers.
Casa da Árvore
A sudbury-inspired learning community made up of a team of adults and a group of children and teenagers from 4 to 18 years old, meeting Monday-Friday from 1:30-5:30 to collectively build a safe space for the free realization of each one’s potential.
Casa de Barro espacio educativo
Anarchist unschooling space for all ages.
Cedar Hill Open Learning
At Cedar Hill Open Learning Community we strongly believe in protecting children’s rights in education. Here, your child is welcome to be whoever they want to be.
Club "Libres enfants des Corbières"
À plusieurs familles nous réfléchissons à une possibilité d’accueil d’enfants sur le principe de pédagogies actives non directives, avec une gouvernance de type école démocratique.
Coed Cariad Learning Community
A nature based part time programme for ages 4 -14 in woodland. Free play, democratically run by the community and self-directed learning are our core characteristics.
Columbus Unschoolers Cooperative
Family-centered group whose members seek to support each other and augment our children’s educational and social enrichment opportunities in a supportive, nurturing, hands-on classroom environment. All classes are non-compulsory.
Comunidad Orgánica. Self directed learning space
We are a learning community of families in Madrid
Cottonwood Cooperative, NYC
A learning cooperative where education is community-focused, democratic, nature-inspired, and project/play-based.
Crystal Seed: Agile Wellbeing Centre
A self directed community with a particular focus on wellbeing and the creative arts
Cupola Academy
Cupola Academy is a secular, nonprofit organization that provides a supportive community-base for homeschooling families. CA offers full-day programs for young people(4-18) to attend 2 days a week in a collaborative and resource-rich environment.
Dandelion Learning Collaborative
We’re an experiential learning community near downtown Wake Forest, offering in person meetings for homeschoolers ages 5-12, family support, and community gatherings.
Deep Root Center for Self- Directed Learning
A facility within the Liberated Learners network with a mission to support young people who are struggling in traditional school for various reasons to rise out of that situation to take charge of their education.
Dida Academy
A student-centered community for project-based learning through design and technology.
Die Lernwerkstatt (Learning Workshop)
A space where learning is a collaborative, creative and self-determined activity.
Dynamic: An Inclusive, Self-Directed Learning Community (NW Indiana & Chicago)
We are a (start-up!) community for children of all ages and their grown-ups to get together to play, explore, learn, and socialize in community in Lake County, IN and Greater Chicago.
East Kent Sudbury School
Part-time Self-Directed, Democratic provision for Home Educated children aged 5-18. Aiming to become the first registered Independent School based on the Sudbury model in the UK.
El Panal ALC
Somos una comunidad comprometida con la transformación individual – colectiva a través de la autodirección.
Embark Center for Self-Directed Education
Embark Center for Self-Directed Education in Leesburg, VA, is a youth-run democratic ‘unschool’ where children and teens create their own personal and community learning experiences in a supportive, mixed-age community of friends, peers, and mentor
Empower Oceanside
Empower Oceanside Unschooling Co-Op is for children of any age and their parents and,or caregivers. This is an opportunity to be in community weekly. For kids to engage in open-ended, child-led play and activities while the adults unlearn together.
Espaço Voa
The Espaço Voa is a living environment where families, educators, collaborators, and children are given tools to move between self-knowledge, transformation, and connection. Our goal is developing creative potential inside each one.
Explora ALC
Explora ALC is a bi-lingual (English/Spanish) organization committed to igniting the fire of curiosity in all people, radically shifting the way we think about learning, education and what it means to be in community. We support learners ages 4-18.
Free to Learn ALC
An Agile Learning Community for self-directed learners ages 5-19.
Freerange Education
An open agile learning space for Self-Directed Education.
Futuresc
Centro de Aprendizaje Ágil. Colectivo de familias por la educación autodirigida. Asesoramiento a las familias y servicio personalizado.
GROW
A cooperative learning community rooted in the principles of Self-Directed Education & Natural Learning.
Greater Vancouver Home Learners: homeschoolers, DLers, unschoolers
An inclusive group for anyone in and around the Greater Vancouver BC area who homeschools, unschools, or homelearns with their kid; is a homeschooled kid; or is interested in homeschooling or learning more about it.
Holistic Global Education Community
An interest-driven co-learning environment for tweens where Children, Young Adults, and Adults have equal human rights.
Houston AltED Co-Op
We are a learning cooperative of elementary aged homeschooled children. Our foundation is a parents’ facilitated hybrid of self-directed & progressive education.
Imagine Cooperative
A space in Corvallis, OR where kids are empowered to learn what, when, and how they want; gathering as a group in public locations 1-5 days a week.
Inspired Learning Academy and Homeschool Center
Located in Fairview, Texas, ILA supports teens/tweens to be successful self-directed learners so they can thrive in school and in life.
Kid Cultivators Homeschooling Community
Intentional community of life-learning families committed to discovering, growing and enjoying life together while educating our children. Founded 2007.
KindKin Collective
Self-directed learning center focusing on connection, play, and community located in Sebastopol, CA.
Kinone Agile Learning Center
Established in 2023 as the nation’s first and only bilingual center, offers liberatory education for all amidst the serene mountain landscape, empowering learners to explore and grow in a truly immersive environment.
Komunitní Školy Holubníku
A space where children can meet other children and play together in a free environment, learn to be in relationships outside the family and inspire each other. The program is co-created by children. For ages 5-12.
La Fabrique Démocratique
A sudbury-inspired democratic school/community learning center/makerspace/coworking space/greenhouse in Boulogne-Billancourt.
La Maison Inspirée
A democratic school/community learning center/coworking space, welcoming children and their parents.
La Tribu
Somos una Comunidad de Aprendizaje y Diversidad Cultural que sostiene su filosofìa con base en el Aprendizaje Autodirigido haciendo uso de herramientas ágiles para su construcción y permanente evolución.
Lafayette Homeschool Collective for Self-Directed Learning
A Self-Directed Learning Center for ages 5 and up, where deep learning happens naturally and self-motivation grows, along with care and respect for others.
Latitude Learning Resources
A NH based homeschool learning center, Latitude’s focus is enrichment classes and community activities that support the needs, interests, and abilities of our students in single interest or cross-curricular areas.
Learn Beyond The Book
Resource center providing a-la-carte classes and events that students choose in locations in LA County, from preschool age through high school. Also provides a community for homeschoolers and coaching and training to help families understand SDE.
Liberated Kids
Liberated Kids is a an SDE community for BIPOC kids in Oakland, California that uses agile tools and meets Monday to Thursday.
Liberty Self-Directed Learning Center
Liberty SDLC is a full-time and flexible conventional school alternative program for ages 5-18.
LightHouse Holyoke
A self-directed learning center for teens.
Lilac ALC
An inclusive agile learning community serving homeschoolers in California’s Central Valley.
Limitless Agile Learning Community
Self-Directed education enrichment center at the beautiful River School Farm alongside the Truckee River in Reno, NV, that welcomes curious minds to pursue their individual interests, and encourages development of unique strengths. Ages 8-18.
LuDUS
Project of a public Learning Centre for Democracy, Mindfulness and Self-direction in Luxembourg
Luminary Learning Village
Learning space created for young people to follow their curiosities and interests, to play, explore and learn freely, to build strong interpersonal connections, so that they can grow to be responsible adults and confident life-long learners!
Macomber Center
A self-directed learning community for children of all ages. We are a fully staffed drop-off center which runs from 9am to 5pm, five days a week.
Make-A-Space Coop
A self-directed education coop for registered homeschoolers in Nashville, TN.
Mesahat Learning Community
Cairo Based Self-Directed Learning Community
Methodos eV
A group of young people who have come together to prepare themselves for the Abitur. They run the organization democratically and have hired teachers to support and stand by them.
Mid-Columbia Self-Directed Education Collaborative
MCSDE supports families in empowering children and teens to take the lead in their own education by exploring their interests and the world around them using the vast amount of tools and resources available throughout their community.
Mochicahui Self-Directed Learning Space
¡Un espacio para el aprendizaje autodirigido de niños, jóvenes y adultos! ¡Un espacio para crear, probar, experimentar y de mucho juego libre! ¡Un lugar para explorar y aprender conectados con la naturaleza!
Mont-Libre: Centre éducatif agile de Montréal
Un centre éducatif agile pour les jeunes de 8 à 18 ans pratiquant l’éducation à domicile qui s’inspire des écoles libres et du unschooling. An agile educational center for young people aged 8 to 18. Inspired by free schools and unschooling.
Mosaic Pathways
We are a community of homeschool learners naturally exploring authenticity through connection and opportunity for discovery of individual strengths, interests, and values in an environment that is flexible, differentiated, and unconventional.
Natural Creativity
An education center for students ages 4-17, focusing on developing creativity, compassion, and collaboration among young people and community members.
Nature Play ALC
A co-parenting club and non-formal education collective, based in northern Athens, Greece, hosting regular trainings, pop-up events and camps to help nurture a pioneering Agile Learning Community in the outdoors of North Evia.
NatureGlo's eScience Unschool
NatureGlo’s eScience Unschool is an online eLearning center offering weekly personalized unschool parent and student coaching for struggling homeschoolers wanting to transition to unschooling.
North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens
A center in Sunderland, MA that supports teenagers to find ways to learn and excel outside of conventional middle school and high school. A Liberated Learners member center.
ODYSSEY: A Self-Directed Learning Community
A self-directed learning community serving New Braunfels, TX and surrounding communities
OWL (Our Way of Learning Homeschool Collective)
Inclusive, secular homeschool group, welcoming unschoolers and life learners.
Ojo de agua - ambiente educativo
A place where children and young people can choose how to satisfy their own interests in a self-directed, ecological, holistic, democratic and respectful atmosphere.
Open Connections
Open Connections’ mission is to help young people and adults develop the tools and skills needed to create the life they want. Contact us to join our community and participate in our programs for youth ages 4 through 18.
Orvita
A summer camp, school start-up, and training center for SDE parents & facilitators, centered around the eight pillars of connection, trust, self-management, play, democracy, agility, inclusiveness and holism. Locations in Ghent and Mortsel.
POP Louisville
Self-Directed meetups for Louisville KY homeschool families. 3 days a week, 3 hours each day.
Parts and Crafts: The Center for Semi-Conducted Learning
An alternative to school designed to facilitate and promote self-directed learning and the creative use of technical skills, run by a makerspace.
Passages Centre for Self-Directed Learning
At Passages Centre we mentor youth to self-direct their education and create a personalized learning experience–an alternative to mainstream school. We’re a community for youth to dive deep into interests, hobbies and online courses
Pathfinder Learning Center
We are a self-directed learning center where students find community, resources, and support while they pursue their own educational vision.
Pathfinders Academy
Pathfinders Academy offers inquiry-led STEAM learning experiences for K-5 homeschooling, charter, and unschooling families in Ventura County. We provide interactive, child-centered, evidence-based learning in a safe, fun, social atmosphere.
Peaceful Gatherings Agile Learning Community
A self-directed learning community for homeschoolers that uses Agile Learning Tools.
Peumal ALC
Un espacio de educación autodirigida, donde los niños vienen a aprender a su ritmo, según sus intereses y acompañados con amor.
Princeton Learning Cooperative
A community of teenagers engaging in Self-Directed Education instead of attending conventional schools, to create a life and education based on their interests, strengths and goals.
Raritan Learning Cooperative
A community of teenagers engaging in Self-Directed Education instead of attending conventional schools, to create a life and education based on their interests, strengths and goals.
Raven House Self-Directed Learning Community
A supportive space for homeschooling and unschooling families to learn through living, develop true friendships and build community.
Raw Learning
A place for children to come together using their own curiosity as a guide for what they will discover next. Facilitators act as adult mentors to support deeper investigation into the specific interests of each child.
Re-Imagined Learning Centre
A space to De-Colonize and Re-Imagine ourselves and our learning.
Real Life Agile Learning Center
A unique agile learning environment dedicated to supporting families who are exploring alternative and supplemental learning opportunities in Tampa Bay
Reimagine
Reimagine supports home education clubs for self-directed learning – currently Hummingbirds runs 9am-3pm Mondays and Fridays for children 4-9yrs, in a nurturing environment with plenty of outdoor and free play, interspersed with art/cooking etc.
Rock Tree Sky
A K-12 learning community where youth have the freedom and responsibility to direct their education with the support of caring adults, in a dynamic open-walled environment.
Room To Grow Explorers
Homebase co-op for homeschooling families.
Rubik Agile School
an agile, self-directed learning community for children ages 6-13 who are enrolled in a school, homeschooling, or unschoolers.
SHINE Together, LLC
SHINE Together, LLC is a play-based, nature-focused, interest-led holistic education program for K-12 homeschoolers in central Minnesota on 20 acres.
SPARK Homeschool Co-op
A secular, diverse and inclusive community of homeschooling families that thrive in a self-directed learning environment.
San Diego Learning Revolution
A group to promote student-directed education in San Diego, through organizing powerful campaigns and building solidarity economies. Working to build a student-directed learning center for teens based on the North Star / Liberated Learners model.
Santa Barbara Free School
The Santa Barbara Free School is a self-directed and democratic program for homeschool students based in Santa Barbara, California.
Sky Bear Agile Learning Community
A liberating alternative to school and self-directed education community for youth that honors children’s innate intelligences and ways of learning while engaging in community.
Spectrum Youth Project
Spectrum is a community for living fully and creating a healthy world. One of our major long-term goals is to create an alternative to school for young people that is a superior way to live and learn.
Svobodná Škola Ronja
A Summerhill-inspired learning center for unschoolers ages 6-15+
Synergy Collective of the Upstate
Synergy Collective of the Upstate is designed to be a connecting point for families in the Greenville, SC area that align themselves with a self-directed, liberated, autonomous mindset for all people, regardless of age.
Talking Stick Learning Center
Self-directed, topic-based programs for homeschoolers held on 55 acres of nature parkland. Talking Stick provides a safe and supportive space that respects the individual and nurtures children’s innate curiosity and desire to learn.
The Attic Learning Community
A community of homeschoolers ages 3 -18, with a K-12 program and a Field & Forest Outdoor Preschool program.
The Cabin and the Lodge
The Cabin and the Lodge are consent-based, self-directed learning communities for home educated young people.
The Children's Community
We are a mixed-age, self-directed education community practicing autonomy, consent, and connection. Young people ages 5-18 unschooling together on a farm and in the forest.
The Diablo Valley Unschooling Co-op
A place for unschooling families to plan and host events, and to build connections for children and parents.
The FLOW Agile Learning Community
Agile Learning Center Startup in the Tri-Cities, WA.
The Garden
The Garden is an evidence-based, democratic community for children in Bristol, UK. We prioritise the emotional well-being and social skills of children, through an unconditional approach and horizontal communication. Learning is self-directed.
The Green House Education Project
Currently restructuring and working towards becoming an Agile Learning Centre (ALC), similar to how The Green House has been evolving since 2014.
The Hive: Self-Directed Learning for Teens
A Liberated Learners center in Springfield, Oregon, where youth are supported in leaving school and taking charge of their own learning. Fall 2019 update: on hiatus
The Hub
The Hub provides an empowering cohort experience for homeschooled tweens and teens (ages 9 to 16+), via an online micro-academy program that is part-time, interdisciplinary, and interest-led.
The Learning Co-op
A mixed-age cooperative learning program that promotes and supports self-directed education and democratic decision-making as an option for all learners and all families.
The Learning Community at Quest
Quest is a space dedicated to learning, discovery, fun, and creativity, for learners of all kinds, age groups, interests, and abilities.
Thickets
Thickets is a place-based learning community for self-directed young people ages 5 – 8 in Montpelier, Vermont. Each day evolves differently and is created collectively as we explore forests, parks and city.
Udesya
Udesya Learning Club is a community of free learners inspired on Sudbury Valley
Unarvu Education
We provide experiential education to self-directed students aged 8+. Our model is emergent and adaptive; our priority is to develop our inner compass—our Unarvu—as we navigate our learning journey within a supportive learning collective.
Unschooling Center San Antonio
A group of parents that are working on opening an unschool type of community center in San Antonio, Texas.
Village Home Education Resource Center
An inclusive homeschooling support community with campuses in Beaverton, NE Portland, and Salem, offering a variety of elective classes, activities, and other resources for homeschooling and unschooling families.
White Ash Learning Cooperative
Self-Directed Nature-Based Programming
Wild Child Bliss – Unschool Community
A home-based learning & development center focused on creating whole food, whole families, whole children, whole communities & a whole world.
Wild Earth
Wild Earth is a nature-based, self-directed learning community for homeschooled children aged 5-18+ in County Clare, Ireland.
Wildling Collective
Whole-family social support for unschoolers + homeschoolers along the Front Range.
Wildwood ALC
An Agile Learning Community and a nonprofit program for homeschoolers ages 7-17 in the Boone, NC area who wish to engage in collaborative, self-directed learning experiences within a supportive multi-age environment.
Wilmington Cooperative School
A homeschool co-op in Wilmington, NC, which promotes self-directed education through use of ALC tools.
WoW (Without Walls) Cooperative
We’re a group of ~15 families that meet at East Bay parks every weekday from 9:30am – 4pm to support self-directed education for our kids (ages 5 to 11). We’re currently open to enrolling a small number of additional families.
ZigZag Liberation Station & ALC
A self-directed, agile learning school in Asheville, NC. We do unschooling in community, with compassion, and in the service of creating a new culture based on power-with instead of power-over.
makED - Make Education
A sociocratic learning environment/school where we facilitate intrinsic motivation, as well as friendship, fun and fulfillment.
À Mon Rythme
A democratic school for young people ages 3-18. Support for students is provided voluntarily by parents.
Время и место/Time and Place
We are a Sudbury-inspired learning community for kids 6-18.
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