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Season 2 of Holding Unfolding is focusing on stories from members of the Agile Learning Center NYC community! We're starting with some interviews with young people! ... Summer production will be slower and simpler since Abby's trying to do it all alone between other jobs *but* the kids are excited to add transcripts and much better audio editing when they return to the space in September. So stay tuned!

Season 2 of Holding Unfolding is focusing on stories from members of the Agile Learning Center NYC community! We're starting with some interviews with young people! ... Summer production will be slower and simpler since Abby's trying to do it all alone between other jobs *but* the kids are excited to add transcripts and much better audio editing when they return to the space in September. So stay tuned!

Season 2 of Holding Unfolding is focusing on stories from members of the Agile Learning Center NYC community! We're starting with some interviews with young people! ... Summer production will be slower and simpler since Abby's trying to do it all alone between other jobs *but* the kids are excited to add transcripts and much better audio editing when they return to the space in September. So stay tuned! ... Support the production of this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/agilelearningcenternyc ! Learn more about the center these episodes focus on at nycagile.org/

Season 2 of Holding Unfolding is focusing on stories from members of the Agile Learning Center NYC community! We're starting with some interviews with young people! ... Summer production will be slower and simpler since Abby's trying to do it all alone between other jobs *but* the kids are excited to add transcripts and much better audio editing when they return to the space in September. So stay tuned! ... Support the production of this podcast at https://www.patreon.com/agilelearningcenternyc ! Learn more about the center these episodes focus on at nycagile.org/

Episode 8 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Zed and David O'Connor of the Philly ALC. Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/07/04/holding-unfolding-episode-8-with-zed-and-david-transcript/ --- Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/ Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Learn more about the Philly ALC at www.phillyalc.org/

Episode 7 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Jean Finlay of the Philly ALC. Transcript at: abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/06/14/holding-unfolding-episode-7-with-jean-finlay/ --- Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/ Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Learn more about the Philly ALC at https://www.phillyalc.org/ "Raising Free People" gets a shout out, and is hopefully going to get published in Spanish soon! Help make that happen at https://donorbox.org/let-s-translate-raising-free-people-vamos-a-traducir-raising-free-people

Episode 6 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is brief process reflection and a story from a facilitator day with an ALC-NYC kid in early June of 2021. Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/holding-unfolding-episode-6-nyc-facilitation-story-transcript/ --- Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/ Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Book shout-out is for "The Disordered Cosmos" - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54455629-the-disordered-cosmos Conference mentioned was hosted by https://www.self-directed.org/

Episode 5 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Amber Sawyer of Rivers and Roads ALC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (US). Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/05/09/holding-unfolding-episode-5-with-amber-sawyer-transcript/ --- Cover illustration by www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/ Music by www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Learn more about Rivers and Roads at http://riversandroadsok.com/ and on their Instagram at @riversandroadsok They also had a cool reflective contribution to the ALC Network annual report for 2020, at https://app.gitbook.com/@nycagile/s/network2020report/~/drafts/-MOqnXiXD0umpq80-N3N/facilitators-say...#rivers-and-roads-oklahoma-city-oklahoma-usa Follow up on the shout out of Akilah's work at https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/ We allude to how self-directed education is often cast as a new invention by some US white men lone geniuses; check out this piece about whose traditions we're actually building on with this practice: https://www.self-directed.org/tp/ours-first/ One resource for learning more about whose lands each ALC we're calling into these interviews from is on is https://native-land.ca/ Finally, those new to comparing education philosophies who want to learn more about those mentioned in this episode can look up John Dewey and the laboratory school as a start on the progressive education movement, Maria Montessori on Montessori schools, "The Hundred Languages of Children" on Reggio Emilia, Summerhill as an entry point for Democratic Free Schools, and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education for content on self-directed education...although there are many other starting points to explore each philosophy from.

Episode 4 of the Holding Unfolding podcast is an interview with Julia Cordero of Heartwood ALC in Atlanta, Georgia (US). Transcript at: https://abbyoulton.wordpress.com/2021/05/01/holding-unfolding-episode-4-with-julia-cordero-transcript/ --- Cover illustration by https://www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/ Music by https://www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Learn more about Heartwood at https://www.heartwoodalc.org/ Check out the brilliance in this transcript from their Racial Equity and SDE event that we mention: https://www.self-directed.org/tp/racial-equity-summit/ Find the "Lit Charts" Julia references at https://www.litcharts.com/