Celebrate Learning

Celebrate Learning is a network of people, programs and resources that help children and young people to enjoy a self-directed education. These all align with the Six Optimizing Conditions of the Alliance for Self-Directed Education:

1. Responsibility: foster children’s natural assumptions that they are capable of learning and play the leading role in their own education

2. Play: unlimited time to play, explore and pursue one's own interests

3. Tools: opportunities to play with the tools of the culture, including emerging technologies and risky play (with appropriate safety procedures in place)

4. Mixed-age: children of all ages mix freely and can also learn from, alongside and even teach the supportive adults all around them

5. Community: learning is more than head-knowledge, so it's important for people to connect with a stable, supportive, respectful community where they can find acceptance and make a difference

6. Adult allies: access to helpful adults committed to young people’s rights who listen, let kids make their own choices, and act as supportive partners instead of grading or judging them (unless asked)