11
Jul
A Podcast for People of Color in the Self-Directed Education Movement
UPDATE: Fare of the Free Child is Live
6 min read
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18
Jun
3 Ways You’ve Been Taught You Can’t Be Trusted — And How Not to Pass That Onto Children
Originally posted on EverydayFeminism.com.
8 min read
10
May
Helping Our Children Practice Confident Autonomy — Alternative Learning Advocates
Lainie Liberti and Miro Siegel are fascinating people. In 2009, the single mother and son duo decided together to take the year of yes…
2 min read
25
Apr
That Time Beyoncé’s LEMONADE Inspired the Hella Black Feminist Version of The Matrix
I made it a point not to read any reviews or other perspectives about LEMONADE, Beyoncé’s latest visual album until I watched it myself. I…
4 min read
18
Apr
Pulling Learning from Under the Rubble of Education
Education and learning are not the same.
3 min read
13
Apr
Why Erykah Badu’s Respectability Politics Aren’t the Problem
Have you been watching the storm of backlash that Queen of Woke, Erykah Badu, is getting from her tweets about girls’ skirts and men’s…
2 min read
23
Mar
How To Design Your Life From Childhood. Probably. Maybe.
Since appearing on The Steve Harvey Show to discuss parenting, I’ve gotten a barrage of questions about what our children do all day, since…
6 min read
18
Mar
6 Ways to Engage an Unschooling Child in Noncoercive Reading & Spelling
I recently put the finishing touches on a new lecture in my Unschooling for Entrepreneurs course. Students asked for ideas to help counter…
2 min read
04
Mar
These Myths May Be Holding You Back from Unschooling Your Children — Here’s Why They Shouldn’t
I stood up to walk away from the makeshift office space in my bedroom; it was time for a well-earned break from work. I’d been editing a…
8 min read
03
Mar
That Time I Explained Unschooling on The Steve Harvey Show
With a bit of humor, but unmistakable certainty, Steve Harvey told unschooling mama, Bethanie Garcia, that no matter what, her 5-year-old…
4 min read