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Abundance Farm is a small farm in Nicaragua offering experiential guest programs engaging with issues in tropical agriculture and rural development.
Alfie Kohn, a former teacher turned author and lecturer, writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and social theory. Site contains publications, lecture topics, and articles on standards and parenting using more cooperative ideals and internal motivation.
The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future.
We are a non-profit, grass roots educational organization dedicated to informing Americans how education can be improved for all-not only the poor--by liberating schools from politics. For more information and to sign our "Proclamation for the Separation of School and State"
Shape Your Influence - From The Inside Out!
Alternative Education Association of Turkey.
Netherlands-based alternative education networking organization.
Animalearn provides a whole host of resources for educators and students at no cost. Their programs are suitable for a variety of educational levels, including K-12, college/university, and veterinary/medical. They offer humane education curricula and educational kits that cover issues ranging from dissection to product testing.
Our mission is to assist individuals or organizations, whether in the for-profit, non-profit, or governmental sectors, that are striving for excellence while serving their communities.
The Association for Experiential Education (AEE) is a nonprofit, professional membership association dedicated to experiential education and the students, educators and practitioners who utilize its philosophy.
APHE will provide professional development opportunities and networking for educators who promote humane attitudes toward people, animals and the environment.
Atma Vidya Educational Foundation ('AVEF') supports the model school for the KPM Approach to Children and disseminates the Approach to individuals and organizations throughout the world through its training programmes, publications and outreach activities. AVEF was founded in 1985 and is located in Kerala, India.
The AAPAE is for all those interested and involved in progressive, alternative and democratic education. It is for learners and educators regardless of age. It is for all in the community who wish to share and extend their experience and knowledge of such education. AAPAE provides a forum for discussion, debate, and research, a network for sharing and support and an incorporated association of likeminded individuals, schools, learning centres and education institutions working together on common issues.
Official website of Naomi Aldort, parenting/family counselor, writer and speaker.
Offers several great books on self-education for adults. Plus, you'll also find: a free Self-University Newsletter; details about the annual Self-University Week, a celebration and commitment to Lifelong Learning; Autodidactic Profiles of self-educated people who've made a difference, and other books that have changed lives.
Institute and resources for parents interested in attachment parenting and non-punitive discipline.
A Better World Is Within Reach Peace Network is an international not-for-proft organization offering the newest networking resources for cohousing, ecovillage, housing co-ops, intentional communities, groups working in education alternatives and peaceful activist groups worldwide.
The Brecht Forum is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaboartive projects and networking in an independent community-level environment.
Established in March of 1999, Bridges of Respect offers a series of dynamic, educational presentations on animal and environmental issues for high school and up in the Twin Cities metro area
Higher education institution offering programs in anthroposophy and Waldorf teacher education.
Through its projects on research, curriculum, professional development, and local advocacy, CAOE develops and provides innovative resources for educators, leaders, students, and advocates throughout the United States and the world who are interested in creating and engaging in anti-oppressive forms of education.
The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. They Offer seminars and programs for humane educators
Founded in 1980, The Center for INTERIM Programs is a service that enables people to pursue structured alternatives to formal education or work by matching client's interests with over 3,000 opportunities worldwide (from art to zoology, Australia to Zimbabwe) to create time "off" that can give new direction, sharpen hazy career goals, rejuvenate those on the verge of burnout, and give a much needed break between high school and college, or after formal education is completed.
Building a sustainable and equitable future begins with our children. The CPS Partnership Education Program works with educators, parents, and policy makers to transform educational process, content, and structure to help young people acquire the skills and knowledge essential for fulfilling and productive lives and a sustainable, equitable, and peaceful future.
Children of the New Earth Online magazine is a brand new, one-of-a-kind, cutting-edge publication devoted exclusively to the evolving needs of today’s new generation of Indigo kids and Crystal children.
Chris has been a teacher at the Albany Free School, a unique, freedom-based inner-city alternative school, since 1973. He became Codirector in 1985. His essays, commentaries and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals and magazines, as well as in three anthologies: Deschooling Our Lives (New Society Press 1996), Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal 2000), and Field Day: Getting Society Out of School (New Star Books 2003). He is also the author of Making It Up As We Go Along, the Story of the Albany Free School (Heinemann 1998), Teaching the Restless, One School's Remarkable No-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed (Beacon Press 2004), and currently he is working with Beacon Press on his fourth book, In Defense of Wildness: Protecting Children’s Inner Spark.
Circle of compassion offers free humane education presentations for 6th-12th grades, college, students, and adult audiences.
Promotes a school model which is characterized by personalization, democracy and equity.
COMPASS… for Lifelong Discovery is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to creating and supporting progressive, experiential learning environments.
Education program founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
A project of the Coalition for Self-Learning. The Coalition for Self-Learning envisions and co-creates a world of cooperative life-long learning communities.
David Gribble taught at Dartington Hall School for almost thirty years, and was then one of the joint founders of Sands School. Since retiring he has visited democratic schools all round the world and written books about them. This site includes articles he has written, talks he has given and much other information.
This organization is an international teacher-researcher project that has focused on documenting promising classroom practices for intercultural learning over global learning networks.
Education journal published by the Lewis and clark graduate school of education and counseling.
This program offers sustainability education to teenagers.
A not-for-profit, research, writing and publishing company, founded in 1991, its purpose is to question the dogmas of schooling in particular, and education in general, and to develop the logistics of the next learning system.
Based in England, Education Now is a not-for-profit research, writing and publishing company, a co-operative devoted to developing a more flexible education system to cope with the wide variety of learning styles, forms of intelligence and the needs of a rapidly changing society.
Maintained by Steve Hein, this very well-developed site contains lots of practical information on Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and related topics.
This organization offers series of free and low-cost, captivating humane education presentations that focus on inspiring empathy and provide resources on animal, environmental, and cultural issues for grades six through college and adult audiences in Chicagoland and the San Francisco Bay Area.
English for Action's (EFA) mission is to serve Latino immigrant families in Providence, Rhode Island through participatory English language and childcare programs that link language learning, leadership development and community-building.
FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing advances quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools. FairTest also works to end the misuses and flaws of testing practices that impede those goals.
We place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, and cultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education.
A non-profit educational farm in Western Massachusetts. Our goal is to promote farming -- and the teaching of farming -- through educational programs for school children and through a yearlong practical training program for adults.
The FreeChild Project provides tools and training to young people and adults that engage children and youth in social change.
The Free2be website hopes to help challenge current perceptions about what education is all about. It suggests that the old systems are no longer relevant to today's technological society and that education should increasingly be about valuing learning, thinking and feeling abilities over the simple acquisition of knowledge.
The Fertile Grounds Project’s mission is to provide young people with the space, tools, and support they need to take control over their own educations and build an identity in a world where they can belong. They are based in New York City.
As a private operating foundation, the Fetzer Institute uses the bulk of its income to actively run its own programs or services. The Institute’s mission is to foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness through research, education, and service programs. Current work includes scientific research on altruistic love, compassionate love, and forgiveness; recovering the “heart” of various professions, including teaching, philanthropy, law, and medicine; and exploring the nature of forgiveness, compassion, and love.
Gateway Greening is a nonprofit organization dedicated to community development through community gardening. Since 1984, Gateway Greening has helped transform neglected and abandoned lots in St. Louis into productive gardens and beautiful landscaped areas.
Gentle teaching is a way of life as well as a teaching approach. This website offers resources and information on teacher trainings.
The home for the Holistic Education Press (HEP) and Psychology Press (PP), sister companies that share offices and staff in Brandon, Vermont. HEP publishes the Holistic Education Review and other books on educational renewal; PP publishes educational tests. Web site also offers a catalog of almost 100 books and videos on educational transformation, and subscriptions to ENCOUNTER, "the Utne Reader of education."
Four times a year, it highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of altruistic human relationships, and fuses this research with inspiring stories of compassion in action. In the process, it provides a bridge between social scientists and parents, educators, community leaders, and policy makers.
Green Teacher is a magazine that helps youth educators enhance environmental and global education inside and outside of schools.
Humane education program for all ages in Rhode Island and surrounding areas.
The vision of the Green Charter Schools Network is for every person to be environmentally literate and to practice and promote sustainability in their community.
The Holistic Moms Network (HMN) is a national non-profit providing support and resources to parents interested in natural health and holistic living.
Human Scale Education is an educational charity based in Great Britain promoting small schools and small classes because of the many educational benefits which small size can bring.
The International Education and Resource Network.
For Friends of Alternative, Cooperative, and Democratic Education.
Welcome to Improve-Education.org. This site presents over 30 essays by Bruce Price dealing with EDUCATION, LANGUAGE, and CULTURAL ISSUES.
Some essays first appeared years ago in the Washington Post, Word Ways, Princeton Alumni Weekly and Verbatim. Some are recent. All share a passion for intellectual endeavor and educational achievement.
This Internet site is meant as a complement to the books, "The Indigo Children" and "An Indigo Celebration," published by Hay House. This site will allow for updates on the Indigo Children information as presented in these books, as well as give links to other related sites as time goes on.
IndyKids is a free newspaper and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire a passion for social justice and learning.
Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education and lifelong learning. In particular, we want to encourage educators to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and relationship.
A registered charity, the Institute for Animal Associated Lifelong Learning is a humane education organization incorporated in the province of Alberta, Canada. It develops programs and resources to teach compassion, respect and empathy for animals, people and the earth.
IHE has been training humane educators and promoting comprehensive humane education since 1996. IHE offers several options for people who wish to become trained in humane education, including a distance learning Humane Education Certificate Program (HECP), month long distance learning programs in humane living, parenting and education, and weekend humane education and humane living workshops. IHE has reached thousands of students worldwide through programs, presentations and publications.
The institute offers programs to explore cultural heritage, cultural mentoring and rights of passage.
The Institute for People's Education and Action seeks to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing and democratic social change. IPEA is a membership-based resource network comprised of individuals and organizations throughout North America.
The Intentional Communities Website is the best place on the web for people to find information about intentional community, co-ops, communes, ecovillages, land trusts, cohousing, and more. The IC website provides information on the intentional communities movement including a searchable Communities Directory and hundreds of articles on community. Published by the FIC.
The IBE, which is an international centre for the content of education, was founded in Geneva in 1925 as a private institution. In 1929, it extended its membership to governments and thus became the first intergovernmental organization in the field of education.
This site includes a database of people, schools and organisations which are dedicated to the idea of non-authoritarian education, and up-to-date information about the annual International Democratic Education Conferences.
InterNICHE is an open and diverse network comprising students, teachers and animal campaigners. The network focuses on animal use and alternatives within biological science, medical and veterinary medical education.
Supporting learning alternatives in Iowa since 1979.
This journal seeks to bring together an international community of scholars exploring the topic of unschooling and alternative learning, which espouses learner centered democratic approaches to learning. JUAL is also a space to reveal the limitations of mainstream schooling.
JUAL understands learner centered democratic education as individuals deciding their own curriculum, and participating in the governance of their school - if they are in one. Some examples of learner centered democratic possibilities are unschooling, Sudbury Valley, Fairhaven, the Albany Free School, and the Beach School in Toronto. In terms of unschooling, we view it as a self-directed learning approach to learning outside of the mainstream education rather than homeschooling, which reproduces the learning structures of school in the home.
Creating Relationships where Children and Adults Flourish
Connie Allen, M.A., trains parents and educators how to empower children and to nurture their joyous inner spirit. She guides you to discover and develop your natural ability to connect authentically with children and to have the fun, joy, and ease every parent and educator desires in relating with children.
The Kentucky League for Educational Alternatives (KLEA) seeks to secure appropriate financial support for all parents of non-public school children. KLEA is a grassroots organizing advocacy group uniting parents, teachers and volunteers to achieve its goals.
They are a group of about 20 young people who stand up for equal rights for children. Their main subjects are the right to vote, school and family. But they are also engaging in other subjects that deal with age discrimination, such as child labour and kids and youth protection.
Learning is For Everyone, is an education resource organization empowering families and learners with information and networking opportunities encompassing all aspects of education.
Libertarian Education is a small independent publishing collective, which for the past thirty years has been campaigning for the development of non-authoritarian initiatives in education.
LinkEducation is the education sector's go-to website informing organizations, educators, and the general public about resources that exist within their communities and empowering them to work together to improve education for all kids.
certificate progam for Waldorf Teachers and programs that study anthroposophy and the teaching of Waldorf Steiner; located in Portland, Oregon.
NAME promotes multicultural education through offering resources, conferences and consultant services.
This membership organization supports alternative education, alternative community schools, and homeschooling families. NCACS serves its membership via networking opportunities and educational programs, facilitated by and promoted in its quarterly newsletter, National Coalition News, and its bi-annual National Directory of Alternative Schools. Other networking resources and publications are available.
The National Youth Rights Association is the nation's premier youth rights organization. NYRA is a youth-led national non-profit organization dedicated to fighting for the civil rights and liberties of young people.
Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.
New Democracy works for democratic revolution. This website provides critical education articles.
This organization adovcates humane education, and offers humane education resources.
Leading-edge resource for educational change. They explore and implement ideas that have not yet reached the mainstream, and work in coordination with other networks and learning communities. Their articles and resources cover in-depth such areas as: Brain Research, Special Needs/Inclusion, Early Learning, Adolescence, Restructuring K-12 Education, Adult Learning, Technology and Learning, and Multicultural Education.
Resources, Consulting and Workshops for Child-Centered Education. Carmen Gamper promotes self-directed learning and hands-on learning materials for practical, art and academic skill development in classroom and home environments. For parents and teachers of children ages 3 to 13. She’s author of “The Sacred Child Companion. Handbook for Child-Centered Education."
Next Step Integral is an international non-profit organization founded in 2003. We are dedicated to the advancement of human consciousness and to the integral* embodiment of our human potential. Our main emphases are: integral education, integral parenting, integral ecology and integral community, with a central focus on application.
The Nonstop Institute is open to students of all ages who are interested in college-level academics, learning grounded in experience, and participatory community governance.
Welcome to Tools for Equity in the Classroom! It is with great pleasure that I invite you to explore these pages, to browse, to ruminate, and to make use of the multitude of wonderful resources you will find here. Think of this as a virtual guide, as you embark on the lifelong journey of infusing equity and social justice into your educational spaces, both in the classroom and beyond.
A Handbook on Formal Consensus Decisionmaking made available for free online.
Fredric "Rick" Posner, Ph.D. has a background in open, democratic , alternative schools as well as special education. His dissertation (1989) was entitled A Study of Self-Directed Learning, Perceived Competence, and Personal Orientation Among Students in an Open, Alternative High School. Rick is currently working on a book about the lives of the graduates from Jefferson County Open School in Lakewood, Colorado called Lives of Passion, Schools of Hope.
OrganicLearning.org is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and encouraging organic learners and their families world wide, bringing information and communities together. Here, you will find information about what organic learning looks like, how to connect with other organic learners and how organic learning can work for your family.
Mary Leue's web site with a fabulous collection of great ideas in education and more. Mary is a real mover-and-shaker in the community school movement (founder of the Albany Free School and Down-to-Earth Books).
PCPI is a non-profit international council dedicated to the family and the community. PCPI represents more than 50,000 families and teachers, providing on-going support to families, educators, and social agencies who recognize the value of parents as teachers of their children and the necessity of educating parents to meet the developmental needs of their children.
A free weekly online newsletter published by Australian stay-at-home dad and home educator Bob Collier. Features positive, creative and progressive parenting ideas, outside-the-mainstream news, and personal development techniques that help you bring out the best in your children by bringing out the best in yourself.
The official website of progressive education author Ron Miller.
The Phoenix Education Trust is a small national charity which promotes education in which all members of the school community have a voice and real power in decision-making.
A resource for parents, students, educators, education policymakers, healthcare providers, children's advocates, and all others who are concerned with the safety and wellbeing of children.
This organization is a wide-ranging network of people interested in schools, learning, and works. We are committed to observation and description as the ground for teaching and inquiry.
The PTCS is the non-profit vehicle for all of Matt Hern's projects. It began by opening (in 1992) and running Eastside Wondertree, the community-based learning centre Matt and Selena ran near Commercial Drive. When the centre closed in 1996, they merged the whole project with Windsor House in North Vancouver.
Q.E.D. Foundation is a multigenerational organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered school communities. Our work is based on relationships and practices that first and foremost impact students’ growth and learning while simultaneously bringing change to our communities and the health of our society.
Radical Math Teachers are educators who work to integrate issues of economic and social justice into our math classes, and we seek to inspire and support other educators to do the same.
Radical Teacher, founded in 1975, is a socialist, feminist, and anti-racist journal dedicated to the theory and practice of teaching. It serves the community of educators who are working for democratic process, peace, and justice.
Radio by, for, and about unschoolers.
Join hundreds of unschooling families from around the globe as we rethink the meanings of education, learning, parenting...and life! Rethinking Education supports attachment parenting, unconditional love, support for each person's unique journey of life experience, freedom with responsibility, unschooling and you. YOU are the vital ingredient at this conference, as we come together and revel in the magic and mystery of kindred spirits and each other's rich diversity, as we challenge ourselves to trust the extraordinary process of living and learning, the wondrous ability to improve the ways we communicate, discovering new ways of listening to one another, giving full support to our dreams, no matter how wild or ordinary, large or small.
Unschooling is vital to the profoundly intelligent development of our children. And yes, as adults we can even unschool ourselves... as you will discover.
You are invited! Are you ready?
Progressive education magazine and book publisher.
"Making A Difference College & Graduate Guide" and "Making A Difference Scholarships." These resources are for students who wants to use their education to make a better world. Learn about distinctive, relevant colleges to attend, or scholarships that will help you toward community service careers.
The School of Living is an educational organization dedicated to learning and teaching the philosophy, practices and principles of living that are self-empowering for individuals within the general aim of establishing decentralized, ecologically-sound, self-governed and humane communities. All its resources, but most specifically the land it holds in trust, are held in responsible stewardship for present and future generations.
The Secret CO-OP has been created as a model learning centre in support of The Teachers Behind The Secret and The SGR Seminar, The Mindpower Institute, and the members of PowerfulIntentions.org. Its mission is to expand and facilitate services for thinkers of all ages, including a cooperative learning/networking environment as joyful, user-friendly, and visually inviting to explore as The Secret website.
This organisation offers humane education presentations for 6-12 grades, college students, and community organizations in San Diego County and Surrounding Areas.
This site, developed by Maurice Gibbons, supports teaching self-directed learning and such related fields as independent study, individualized instruction, distance learning, experiential education, Walkabout, life-long learning, community education, self-regulated learning, and alternative education. Your comments and contributions are welcomed.
"An international foundation dedicated to the waking up in education"
Something Good in the World, Inc. is an affiliated group of concerned teachers and parents seeking to improve the situation of education in America. As a team, we bring together our collective experience and knowledge to try to offer the best possible educational alternatives for children, teachers, and parents.
We provide Self Managed Learning programmes for school-age students as the core of our activities. The Centre is part of the Centre for Self Managed Learning and the latter has, until recently, focused its work mainly on development activity for adults.
A new Education Commission of the States database contains information about policies in the 40 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico that have enacted charter school laws. From the database, you can do several things: (1) Generate profiles of the charter school policies in individual states; (2) Compare specific types of charter school policies across several states; (3) View reports on issues such as school or student preference, authorizers/sponsors, funding, waivers, facilities and more.
Have the terms Juvenile Boot Camp, ADD, ADHD, Special Education, Private School, Learning Disability, Military School, Boarding School, Troubled Teen, Emotional Abuse, Character Education, Behavior Modification, Conduct Disorder, Hyperactivity, Residential Treatment Center or Wilderness Camp been used in referring to your child? Information about places that work with these children is available here on this web site.
Supporting Sudbury model schools and expanding understanding of the sudbury model of education.
Sudbury Valley School has produced an extensive collection of literature since 1968. A complete on-line catalogue is available.
We offer educational programs to develop the awareness, the literacy, the competencies and the practices that will enable individuals and groups to design social systems that embody social and environmental integrity.
This site helps teachers take advantage of "teachable moments" by giving them a fresh supply of classroom readings and activities on issues in the news. The teaching ideas featured on TeachableMoment.org encourage inquiry, dialogue and thoughtful reflection on current issues -- for instance, the 2004 presidential race or U.S. policy in Iraq. The website also includes an array of teaching ideas to improve students' skills in conflict resolution and intercultural understanding.
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
Offers free humane education and policy resources for K-12 and college educators.
Teach Our Children’s mission is to ensure that we as parents are truly involved with education policy and decision-making and rightfully acknowledged as critical participants in the success of our school system.
The Technical Assistance and Leadership Center (TALC New Vision) is committed to a new vision of public education based on a diversity of personalized learning environments, a diversity of school governance structures, and the ability of all families, regardless of their economic status, to choose the options that best fit their needs.
Teachers for Social Justice (TSJ) is an organization of teachers, administrators, pre-service teachers, and other educators working in public, independent, alternative, and charter schools and universities in the Chicago area. We have come together based on our commitment to education for social justice. We are working toward classrooms and schools that are anti-racist, multicultural / multilingual, and grounded in the experiences of our students. We believe that all children should have an academically rigorous education that is both caring and critical, an education that helps students pose critical questions about society and "talk back" to the world.
Training Wheels for Early Childhood Education works to increase the knowledge base and practical skills of parents, educators, and other concerned adults as a way of improving the lives of all young children. To this end, Training Wheels provides written articles free of charge and consultations, workshops, and other educational services to parents and educators of young children at an affordable cost.
It is our vision to facilitate a family yoga retreat that meets both the needs of the parents and children.
In light of the vast diversity and beauty of our planet, we offer epic yoga adventures around the globe for a full spectrum of experiences. We draw upon the wisdom and traditions of local cultures to enrich our learning and enjoyment.
YES! works to connect, inspire and empower young visionaries on a global level by bringing together groups of thirty diverse young leaders for week-long Jams to facilitate networking, skills sharing and community-building.
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