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The SDE Weekend 3: When Learning is “Invisible”
In this session, we talk about what education and learning can mean when we begin to see children as whole, complex, capable people. We discuss all the various ways young people learn and how reducing learning to something concrete and measurable strips it of the many ways it can happen and look like. We also talk about why it even matters to recognize learning, by discussing invisible learning as a way to push back on dominant narratives around children, education and learning.
Fran Liberatore

Fran Liberatore is an unschooling mother, writer, podcaster and advocate for child liberation. She’s been involved in education for quite a few years – first as an early years teacher, then as a home educator and more recently as a writer and Masters of Education student. She’s been thinking about consent since her children were babies and she was a Montessori guide, and she wondered how to embed consent into her daily life as a mother and educator. Her kids are now 8 and 11 and happily unschooled, and she is still thinking, writing and discussing consent-based education, most recently on her podcast, Consent-Based Everything. She’s also a very part-time editor for Tipping Points Magazine, and forever figuring out the many ways that life without school can bring her family joy, connection and community.

March 1st, 2024

Fran Liberatore

Fran Liberatore is an unschooling mother, writer, podcaster and advocate for child liberation. She’s been involved in education for quite a few years – first as an early years teacher, then as a home educator and more recently as a writer and Masters of Education student. She’s been thinking about consent since her children were babies and she was a Montessori guide, and she wondered how to embed consent into her daily life as a mother and educator. Her kids are now 8 and 11 and happily unschooled, and she is still thinking, writing and discussing consent-based education, most recently on her podcast, Consent-Based Everything. She’s also a very part-time editor for Tipping Points Magazine, and forever figuring out the many ways that life without school can bring her family joy, connection and community.


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