Bria Bloom is a born and raised unschooler. Her experience in directing her own learning led her to become an advocate for Self-Directed Education (SDE), youth liberation, and partnership parenting. The unschooling and deschooling world was her gateway into a whole lot of questioning—realizing that the systems that try to define our lives, and “school” us, are not limited to just school. She also loves to engage and play as an SDE facilitator and parent. She is an unschooling mother of two (a teenager and a toddler); co-founder of Flying Squads; a writer; a facilitator and founder of PDX Flying Squads, a community for self-directed young people in Portland, OR; co-host/co-creator of the Rethinking Self-Directed Education podcast; and has been working with the international advocacy group, Alliance for Self-Directed Education (ASDE) for over seven years.

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