The Unschool Files

In episode 37, meghan speaks with Sari González and Becka Koritz on how they are supporting facilitators, parents and families in Puerto Escondido (and beyond) through their coaching, trainings and pop-up immersions for worldschooling and traveling unschoolers. they cover their approach to conflict resolution and you’ll learn a little about how Explora began, ways it has had to embrace the agile model and ways they aligned their radical learning with what Sari and Becka are offering now! (including a big announcement at the end)

Head to https://www.radical-learning.org to connect to their podcast, trainings, blog and to sign up for their Newsletter.

IG - @radical_learning

Deeply Deschooling Small group coaching https://radical-learning.org/deeply-deschooling

Theunschoolfiles.com for all things meghan is up to!

support Meghan’s work - patreon.com/theunschoolfiles

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in episode 36 Meghan speaks with Lane, a mother of two self-led daughters from a snow globe town on the upper peninsula of Michigan. they discuss how unschooling was a doorway to look at life differently and even unschooling requires deschooling!

• find Lane over in instagram as @liz.lemonade

• head to www.theunschoolfiles.com/resources/ for links to research, book recommendations and blogs on unschooling.

• join Meghan in community on Discord

• zines can be found here-> www.theunschoolfiles.com/shop/

• support Meghan’s work and help her save for recording equipment! www.patreon.com/theunschoolfiles

In episode 34, Meghan takes to the mic alone to talk about mutuality, empathy, fearless listening and how it’s connected to the way we are raising children while unschooling. with a couple of F bombs because… language is powerful!

Visit the website to connect with Meghan in various ways from being a guest on the podcast or supporting the zine to joining the Discord community - theunschoolfiles.com

-as a reminder, the zine is limited print, deadline for this issue is April 15th,2022-

The panel mentioned- on mutual dialogue with bell hooks, George Yancy and Harry Brod; philosophers of/by both formal education and in existence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PErPxdEBdn8&t=3093s

Licity Collins on Fearless Listening

https://licitycollins.com/blogs/fearless-listening/posts/what-is-fearless-listening

Alok Vaid-Menon Instagram post

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcODs3zONYe/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Tammi Lenski on 5 bad listening habits

https://tammylenski.com/bad-listening-habits/

in episode 35 i spoke with an unschooler (from the 90’s) turned cognitive neuroscientist, Alexis Deighton MacIntyre. we discussed her childhood in Canada- a bit about her family life, reasons for not attending conventional school and her path to higher education! Find Alexis at www.admacintyre.com

Get your copy of the Zine, over at www.theunschoolfiles.com

Connect with other Unschoolers via discord at https://discord.gg/zvEaM26Nny

In episode 33 of the podcast, Meghan is talking with Nikolai Pizarro of @raisingreaders on the concept of decentering school, to center connection and relationship. this discussion touches on educational trauma, the pressure to uphold the school system and the values it thrusts into families. Nikolai is very aware that many families do not have the ability to leave school, and wants to empower parents and young people to know their humanity is priority.

she gives real examples of ways folks can walk their children thru their agency while remaining in school. not focusing on the metrics that sort and divide children, and not letting schoolishness dictate how we see ourselves and our humanity.

we talk about the great lie of school with our feet firmly on the ground and in truth for parents who just can’t stop sending their young people to school.

find Nikolai on Instagram @raisingreaders and don’t forget to follow the backyard forest school @liberatorium and toss some funds toward the groundbreaking (literally) work here -> https://givebutter.com/KStbEI

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visit theunschoolfiles.com to connect with Meghan - whether you’d like to be a guest or share your story privately / you are welcome here!

Join the discord community, a place for Unschoolers to come together, while we prioritize the safety and well-being of people of the global majority; to find connection, answers, and reflect on schoolishness and how pervasive it can be. we also have a lot of fun, play games and support one another from afar!

in this conversation with Akilah Richards, we just feel our way through 5 different phrases. episodes of this podcast are never scripted, but this one is particularly vulnerable and off the cuff. i am so grateful for the time and space shared, and hope this conversation will help folks get a sense of what Akilah means when she talks about Raising Free People via unschooling and what our responsibilities are to the people around us.

Connect with me- Theunschoolfiles.com

@theunschoolfiles on Instagram

drop a me a coffee or buy someone a zine on Venmo @iamsilenth

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https://www.patreon.com/theunschoolfiles

Akilah’s podcast

Fare of the free Child Podcast

​​https://soundcloud.com/radicalselfie/sets/fare-of-the-free-child

Akilah’s Website

https://raisingfreepeople.com

Please become a patron of Akilah’s!

https://www.patreon.com/akilah

Akilah’s writing for Everyday Feminism

https://everydayfeminism.com/author/akilahr/

hello there, and welcome to the community check-in and support episode! here are the links to the few things i mentioned for support.

i hope you know that you are loved, and not alone. xxMeghan

Shawna Murray Browne

Therapythatliberates.com

Raising Readers Parent Support Line 404-737-1065

Join a compassionate community on Discord

https://discord.gg/zvEaM26Nny

Subscribe to the z i n e on Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/theunschoolfiles/posts#no_universal_links

Email me at [email protected]

in episode 30 of the podcast, Meghan is speaking with an Austin based unschooling Mama named Demetria on raising Neurodiverse children without school. they discuss her transition from school to a restful home life, strategies for coping to be able to self-direct, and reflect on some vulnerable things as it relates to school and the harm it perpetuates.

find meghan at theunschoolfiles.com

on Instagram @theunschoolfiles

and you can Email me at [email protected]

Demetrias Resources!

Tik Tok

@destini.ann

@domesticblisters

@oneausomemom

@carringtonlbruton

@ellaellaw

@harrythompsonpda

@unschooledandunbothered

IG

@asiatu.coach

@makeba_celeste

@prntgdcolonized

@fareofthefreechild

@theintuitivehomeschooler

@neurodivercity

@actuallyautisticalien

@neurodivergentrebel

@actuallyautistictiktoks

@unschoolingmom2mom

Podcasts

Fare of the Free Child

Honey I’m Homeschooling the Kids

Exploring Unschooling

Sage Family

Use Your Outside Voice! unschooling podcast

Audacious Autistics (YouTube & Spotify)

ADHD Experts podcast ADDitude Strategies and Support for ADHD & LD

ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

Self-Directed Learning & Neurodiversity, Terri Cox

YouTube

Lucy at Life Without School

Books

Ross W Greene, PhD: Raising Human Beings, The Explosive Child

Alfie Kohn: Unconditional Parenting, Punished by Rewards

Shefali Tsabary: The Conscious Parent, The Awakened Family

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

Free to Learn by Peter Gray

Children Learn by John Holt

Introverted Mom by Jamie C Martin

The Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine Aron

Differently Wired by Deborah Reber

The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel MD & Tina Payne Bryson PhD

Unschooled by Kerry McDonald & Peter Gray

Deschooling Gently by Tammy Takahashi

**Demetria always emphasizes extracting what works for your family/lifestyle, and leaving the rest when it comes to any types of resources**

it’s been a while since i have jumped on and spoke alone. i refrain from doing this a lot, because i really value conversation with other people, and never want to seem to have any answers. i literally have none!

in this episode i share an update on the journey to “school”, talk about the struggles of finding and building community (and remembering the ones we are in that don’t include Unschoolers), reflecting on what unschooling continues to ask of us, and a question for the community on the abolition or reform of schools! let me know if anything jumps out and you want to connect.

in this episode, Meghan is sharing a candid conversation with Fran of @bigmothering. an Italian unschooling mama living in Dubai, who was finally able to take the plunge into self-directed education but only because the world shut down. we discuss what kept her from home learning prior, what came up during the year, and how things are going. you’ll want to grab a warm beverage and a cozy spot and listen to this one.

Find Fran’s Blog here-

https://livingwithoutschool.com

Follow Fran on Instagram -

https://instagram.com/bigmothering?utm_medium=copy_link

Drop some change in my piggy bank or by me a coffee, if you feel called to share. I’m @iamsilenth on Venmo 🙏🏼