Liberated Learners has adjusted its membership criteria and annual fee to encourage existing Self-Directed Education programs to join the network.
Learning Together in a Time of Crisis
Across the LL network, centers are moving their programming to an online platform, often offering many of the formerly in-person activities and opportunities in a new online format, as well as adding a number of new options.
A Clip from New Self-Taught Documentary
Self-Taught is a film about adults who homeschooled reflecting on how this approach has impacted their lives, careers, and general attitudes.
What Does it Mean to Be Educated?
By Ken Danford. Blake Boles has been writing and speaking about self-directed learning for over a decade, most recently for the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. In his article What Does it Mean to Be Educated?, he offers a somewhat historical perspective of where we are in the long-term arc of public education in the United States. As Blake points out, schools …
Why an “Alternative” Learning Center?
The key word here is “learning.” Learning is a biological imperative. Humans learn or die.
Trusting in Trust: One Parent’s Practice
Being a parent is rough, right? Let’s not talk about the physical challenge of growing and birthing a whole human being…. Let’s talk about the fear.