I’m Bria Bloom, Organizing Manager of the Alliance for Self Directed Education (ASDE) and a consultant who provides parent coaching and support for those families who wish to apply the ideas of partnership parenting in their family.
I was raised in the philosphy of self-directed education and did not attend conventional schooling until I entered a running start program (early college classes) at age 16. Following, I designed my own baccalaureate—”Envisioning the Creative Classroom”—at Western Washington University where I learned more about alternative forms of teaching and learning, and happened to earn a M.S. in early childhood education at Portland State University. That’s how my college story unfolded, though now I recommend that folks also consider other paths outside of college.
Along with my responsibilities with ASDE, (1) I run the PDX Flying Squads, which is an adventure group for young people to explore and interact within their city; (2) support the Flying Squads Collective I co-founded; (3) write, speak, and share about Self-Directed Education, unschooling, and parenting; (4) write a Substack blog about my daily life as a parent; (5) am one of the core organizing team members for the SDE Youth Rights Accreditation organization; and most important, along with their father, raise my stepson (a teen) and my daughter (a toddler!) in the philosophy of Self-Directed Education and partnership parenting.
You can read further about PDX Flying Squads, Blooming Together: parent coaching and support, My Newsletter and Offerings, my articles and videos on self-directed education, and more About Me.
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