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Film & Video
SDE-themed movies, documentaries, videos, and TV/web series.
Year one at the Teddy McArdle Free School in Little Falls, New Jersey, where all classes are voluntary and rules are determined by vote. Approaching the Elephant is a vivid portrait of unfettered childhood and human relationships.
Being and Becoming
A documentary that explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options.
Class Dismissed – The Movie
Class Dismissed showcases a growing trend in alternative education strategies that are working for many families across America.
Don't Stay in School
A renowned rap that highlights the fallacy that conventional schooling teaches students valuable life skills needed for the professional world.
EDiT — Education in Transformation
An Open Media Platform that amplifies the Self-Directed Education movement through Video Storytelling and a Global Upcoming SDE Events Calendar.
Schooling the World
Schooling the World takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the world’s last sustainable indigenous cultures. Available free online.
Schools of Trust
Schools of Trust is a German film about Self-Directed Education.
Self-Directed Education Tidbits - YouTube Channel by Bria Bloom
Self-Directed Education Tidbits – from a grown unschooler involved in the movement.
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners
A documentary exploring the lives of several adults who chose to follow a self-directed path of learning.
Teacher Liberation TEDx Talk - Joel Hammon
Joel Hammon talks about his decision to quit his job as a high school teacher and how creating self-directed education centers can improve the lives of teachers and their students.
The War On Kids
Exposing the many ways the public schools system has failed children and America’s future by robbing students of all freedoms, largely due to irrational fears.
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