Roundtable: How to Create the Community We and Our Children Need
Community is an essential part of unschooling and will look different for every family. It can also be frustratingly difficult to create. Our panellists share ideas on what has worked for their families.
Erika Ellis has two teenagers at home and has always unschooled. She is a co-host of the Exploring Unschooling podcast with Pam Laricchia and Anna Brown and a former high school science teacher. She has organised parenting, unschooling, and wellness groups in person and online, and is active in the Living Joyfully Network.
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Daniel Moeller is a teacher-turned-unschooling father, parenting coach, and advisor for self-directed education. He advocates consent, youth empowerment, and connection. He enjoys writing about all things unschooling, and can often be found reading, watching movies, skateboarding, wall-climbing, finding humor, making friends with local squirrels and crows, and spending time with his family.
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Tina Talaic, also known as KĆkÄ T, is a Maori mÄmÄ, of NgÄti PÄhauwera, NgÄti Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, TĆ«hoe, Tainui, NgÄti Makerewai and NgÄti Kuri affiliations. Tina and her whÄnau (family) are natural learners, and her son Maioha is now 10 years old. They live in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, in Aotearoa. She is a musician, community organiser and traditional Kapa Haka and Te Reo (Maori performing arts and language) tutor and works to bring Waiata and Te Reo to many home education and preschool groups and festivals. Tina is one of the Pou Whenuaâfounding membersâof Mauri Kura, a national collective of MÄori whÄnau who are learning outside the mainstream schooling system.
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Sari GonzĂĄlez is an unschooling mama and lifelong advocate for youth empowerment and social justice, who has spent more than two decades reimagining how adults and young people can thrive together in learning and in life. Sheâs the co-founder of Radical Learning and the director of Explora Agile Learning Community in Mexico â a space built on consent, autonomy, and belonging. Her path has included leadership in programs all rooted in community, equity, and youth voice.
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Zeba Savage is an unschooling parent, learning facilitator, mathematics coach, and co-director of Savage Learning Environment. Known for her patient attentiveness to the details of childrenâs thinking and feeling, Zeba loves to be in supportive partnership with families as they navigate home-based learning journeys rooted in collective flourishing.
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