LL Membership provides the knowledge and resources to build and sustain your self-directed education center. Both established centers and those about to open are invited to join.
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BECOME aLiberated Learners Member Program
The LL network offers a variety of supports and resources:
- On-call support from LL staff
- Attend Liberated Learners conferences and monthly video chats for professional development and support
- Use of various materials and templates available from LL and its member centers, e.g., brochures and marketing materials, membership forms, program materials, parent guides, newsletters, and website language
- Opportunity to co-host network-wide outreach events such as author talks and documentary screenings
- Support in filing the IRS 1023 application to become a 501c3 tax-exempt organization
- Use of a website template for building your center's website
- A visit from staff and teens from a Liberated Learners center for a public teen panel event explaining to your audience how self-directed education works
- Template and support for creating individualized websites to use in mentoring/advising young people who attend your center
Join the LL Network
Membership Dues
Dues are $25/month ($300/year; pro-rated for programs that join during the year). If the annual fees are out of reach for your center, please be in touch with us.
LL Principles
We invite organizations who are fully operational, or nearly so, to join the network, according to the following LL principles:
- Centers adopt a mission of helping children and teens leave school, using homeschooling law to improve their lives and learning, and of helping existing homeschoolers sustain or improve their use of this approach.
- All center activities and attendance are strictly optional.
- Centers are not accredited “schools” (nor should they use “school” in their names) and do not offer grades, credits, or diplomas, or require testing of their members.
- Centers maintain a physical space, open on a regular schedule, where members, staff, and volunteers participate in various group and individual endeavors, such as classes, workshops, advising, tutorials, and meetings with families.
Apply
As a first step to applying, we invite you to email us at info@liberatedlearners.net to introduce yourself or to reconnect if we've not talked to you in awhile. If you are ready to apply, please make a copy of our application doc, provide the requested information, and forward it to info@liberatedlearners.net. We look forward to working with you!