Agile Learning Center

We're excited about the beautiful update to the network website...and to be hosting the upcoming trainings in Atlanta and NYC! Check it out:

Facilitator Training & Learning — Agile Learning Centers See where the latest Agile Learning Facilitator trainings and gatherings will be and access ongoing ALC training materials.

Come test your chess against world-ranked players! Alongside up to 50 others! At the same time!!! Attendees can help us fundraise and have a chance to win a lesson with a grandmaster, too. See you February 29th!

Chess-a-thon 2024 with the Agile Learning Center! Love chess? Join us for an online event where attendees play, watch, and learn from world ranked players Charlie Rosado and Illia Nyzhnyk!

The space is too clean and quiet! But there's always more moving than what's visible...
Ryan and Nahla are reflecting, getting family time, and planning fall already. Mel is preparing to leave for their next grand adventure. Abby is en route to host a training and doing her end-of-year paperwork. And our lovely window gardens are growing!

We're hosting summer events here at home and in Atlanta! Check it out:

Agile Learning Facilitator Summer Program We’re Agile Learning Facilitators or ALFs. We are educators, social entrepreneurs, and activists who are changing the world by creating an education system for the 21st century. We run a community of schools and homeschool groups that fundamentally empower young people to create their own lives, a...

We're relaunching our summer trainings! Join us in July for a co-designed experience that blends theory and practice ✨️

We love a dog friend! Volume management is a skill we’re always working on, and there’s nothing quite like a small, sensitive, quaking canine pal to inspire us to practice 🐶

“Stay Positive!”
c. 2023
(Mixed media felt, glue, cotton swabs, expired covid tests)

Today, while most of the school was out on an ice skating field trip, fiber arts happened online because we’re still offering hybrid virtual/in-person learning! Why? Not only does relieve feelings of FOMO for sick community members (without sharing germs!), it feels like a obvious extension of our founding philosophy “learning is natural and happening all the time!” We’ve always offered “offsite” learning, and we’re excited about another way to support learners, on-site and off!

Anyone for boba tea? In our weekly, student-led art class, we all draw something special, step-by-step, together (and then we die from cuteness!)

This Friday, we’re celebrating all the other unscheduled learning that’s happening (all the time!) - shoutout to our current longest streak holder for hitting 100 days!

How do they learn math? In a shame-free, curiosity-led environment! Ryan’s been offering math for a decade and all kinds of kids learn all kinds of math skills at ALC because math isn’t inherently terrible - prioritizing tests and grades is!

A puzzling morning lead to some space exploration (from the safety of the library couch, of course!)

Halloween approaches… are your spookies ready?? 🎃👻

3 pros create pro quality images in Procreate ✍🏿✍🏿✍🏿✨

Dungeon and Dragons and Doodles featuring Britney the (Orc) Barmaid and Spike the Spider (He bites! He climbs! He’s cute! Spike the spider 🕷✨🎶)

Look what's ready!!! https://www.criandopersonaslibres.com/

Home | Criando Personas Nadie es inmune a los subproductos de la escolarización compulsiva y la evaluación estandarizada. Y aunque las reformas pueden ser una causa digna para algunas personas, no son suficientes para muchas otras que aún están tratando de navegar la tiranía que ha sido siempre la escolarización. Cri...

Spring break means...sorting through the winter's photos and planning our upcoming events! 🌸

We're taking orders through December 12th! Certificates will be emailed out early the week of thee 13th 🍩 https://nycagile.org/krispykreme/

Check nycagile.org for the special on shirts in our web shop and our general end-of-year fundraiser!

Krispy Kreme Fundraiser! Until December 12th of 2021, you can support the Agile Learning Center of NYC by ordering an online gift card for a dozen glazed doughnuts from Krispy Kreme! The gift cards cost $13, while the pric…

Abby Oulton posted the October updates today! Book group meets Wednesday! https://nycagile.org/alcove/

Welcome to The Alcove The Alcove is the Agile Learning Center of NYC hub for public events and offerings.

Oh look! It's Jessie Dernsco 😍

One of the most magical parts of homeschooling/unschooling is that learning can take any form-- it’s natural and happening all the time. ✨⁠
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Many of us grew up in traditional schools and have been socialized to believe a narrow definition of learning and success. Deschooling isn’t just a period of time away from the influences of formal schooling systems. It is the intentional process of peeling back the layers of our socialization, so we can sink more deeply into truths about education and what it means to be in relationship with young people, ultimately giving us the opportunity to shift our practices towards passion-driven living and learning. ⁠
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Join our supportive + nurturing community to begin or continue this work!

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SDE Book Club: "Untigering" hosted by Nancy Tilton ASDE Book Club launches with 3 sessions discussing Iris Chen's "Untigering" and hosted by Nancy Tilton (she/her) of ALC Mosaic!

This Thursday!

Book Launch, Part One hosted by Dr. Peter Gray and ASDE Join author Peter Gray and facilitator Abby Oulton for the first of two book release events celebrating Peter's newest books!

We're on Facebook less and less these days, BUT we're excited to be partnering with folks from Educambiando to get Akilah Richards' "Raising Free People" published in Spanish! The ALC Network is covering half the cost of the project. Help raise funds to cover the other half using this link:
https://donorbox.org/let-s-translate-raising-free-people-vamos-a-traducir-raising-free-people

Let's Translate "Raising Free People" // Vamos A Traducir "Raising Free People" | Agile Learning Centers (Powered by Donorbox) We're self-directed education folks who decided we love Akilah Richards' book Raising Free People so much and think it's so important that we want it available in Spanish, too! We've been working with Akilah, PM Press, an independent publishing ho...

Kids deserve to live and grow, cared for and whole and self-determining. We understand that one side of our work is to create this experience for them now, and the other side is to keep pressuring the changing world to live up to our dreams and demands for it to do the same...
"Where life if precious, life is precious" quote from Ruth Wilson Gilmore, over a photo of Ry gently holding a bundle of periwinkle in the foreground and the feet of a child standing in a patch of the delicate purple flowers in soft focus in the background.

Reposted graphic of complementary night and day sky triangles with white text from : Say it with me
☀️🌙🌟LEARNING IS NATURAL AND HAPPENING ALL THE TIME🌟🌙☀️
Humans are incredible curious apes and we use our meat and electricity to constantly make meaning. Children have less context and therefore more meaning to make than adults - they cannot rest on what they think they know to be true in the same way we do - and sometimes we forget that learning how to navigate the deli counter, or a hard conversation with a beloved person, or the labyrinths of bureaucracy are all also valid and important learning. Learning doesn’t stop at the classroom door. Children are not empty vessels to be filled with knowledge. They’re co-creating this world as they learn to move through it.

With play and rainy day reflections, with old and new and hard and light questions, we're wondering again at what Grace Lee Boggs called "the power within each of us to crease the world anew."