How to Focus on Learning
A deschooling guide for supporting the self-directed child
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This is a supporting resource for adults to go through the rationale, the benefits, the urgency, and the solutions inside of, a life that gives a child the room to own their educational journey, and to understand themselves as lifelong learners, and not merely temporary students who need to impress adults in order to feel validated and purposeful.
In How to Focus on Learning (also called HFL the Webinar) you’ll learn 10 key terms that will put on you on path for discovery and deschooling around how to support a self-directed learner. We'll start with defining and giving examples of Self-Directed Education, and then branch out into the ten terms that will bring context, discussion, and smarter questions about transitioning from coercive education to liberated learning.
Course Curriculum
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Start1 | Standardization Is Damaging
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Start2 | Presenting vs. Being Present
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Start3 | Reframing Language
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Start4 | Scaffolding
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Start5 | Strewing
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Start6 | Screens & Other Major Distractions
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Start7 | Creating Community Culture
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Start8 | Partnership vs. Power Over
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Start9 | But What About College?
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Start10 | Happiness = Success
Your Instructor
Dr. Sundiata is an independent educator and Next System designer. Sundiata’s work focuses on designing and promoting equitable and sustainable social, economic, and political systems. Sundiata is the creator of GROW, a tuition-free community co-op model for self directed education schools, and the host of Theory of Indivisibility podcast which analyzes the evolutionary origins, current complexities, and future of our social, economic, and political systems.
Akilah S. Richards is an unschooling podcaster, writer, and founding board member of The Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Her work both challenges and encourages social justice minded people to explore privilege and power in their relationships with children. In her own family, Akilah, her partner, and their two daughters, use unschooling as a tool for decolonizing education and liberating themselves from oppressive, exclusive systems. Find her conversations and commentary at Fare of the Free Child Podcast where Akilah supports, connects, and highlights people of color designing their own liberation through Self-Directed Education and love-centered community building.