SDE SPACES,

online and on the ground

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of SDE spaces and centers sprouting around the world. Some are family coops where children live and learn together: others are drop off centers, “unschooling schools”. Others take place in libraries or community centers. 

Below I’ve tried to offer one example of each type of space, stay tuned for more!

Agile Learning Centers:

Drop-off centers, unschooling-type schools for families who want their children to have an experience of SDE within a community.

My Reflection Matters: an online village for BIPOC unschoolers

MRM offers the support, healing, and conversations for educators & caregivers wanting to re-imagine education outside of white supremacy by centering liberatory, self-directed education practices & beliefs.

Ecoversities Alliance: where learners and communities reclaim diverse knowledges, relationships and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.

Reimagined Learning South Africa: reimagining community and learning 

Libraries as Centers for Play

Creativity Adda: Unschooling in a Government School in India

Education Reimagined

A US-based organization spotlighting child-centered learning in public schools, and encouraging new community ecosystems where young people are empowered to take charge of their own learning

Freedom to Learn, UK: “Working together for greater freedom, autonomy and social justice in education”.

Center for Liberated Learning, Cairo Egypt