A friend introduced me to Rachel in 2016. I had heard rumors of the Fifteenth Street School, the first Summerhill inspired school in New York […]
Alexander Khost
Growing Up Unschooled
Unschooling or SDE Schools: What we all need is community
Bria Bloom
A first person account of a directed learning seminar that didn’t happen
Ed Smith
A focus on how connections create awareness both on the individual scale as well as the community scale.
Kelly Seacrest
Part three of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
Curry Stephenson Malott
This post describes a significant change we have recently made to our judicial system at Hudson Valley Sudbury School.
Matthew Gioia
What happens when we walk alongside our kids instead of throwing up invisible boundaries.
Jenni Mahnaz
Alternative Education Resource Education Conference 2019
Blake Boles
Part two of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
Jeffery Shantz
The Story of the Fifteenth Street School
Rachel and Wilbur Rippy
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.
Hope Wilder
Part one of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
Isabelle Fremeaux & John Jordan
Exploring the role of school in mind-body separation
Katie Lane-Karnas
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
Dr. Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson
One parent’s experience of having moved from unschooling to democratic education, the differences and similarities.
Naomi Fisher
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
Dr. Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson
Reflections on a homeschooling journey.
Chetan Erande
El Mundo Donde los Niños Son Personas
¿Cuáles son los verdaderos riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida? En este artículo Rebecka Koritz examina los mitos y los miedos acerca de esta innovadora opción educativa.
Rebecka Koritz
How SDE spaces allow us to navigate the proliferation of screens.
Matthew Gioia
Distinguishing between children’s true needs, the satisfaction of which result in their well-being, from their false needs, those needs imposed on them by adults, which frustrate the first ones.
Ben Draper
