Agile Learning Center

12/03/2024

Our resident artists made a bunch of cool new shirt designs for this holiday season! Support their continuous makerspace re-stocking (and our scholarship fund that helps us keep sharing the makerspace with more folks) at
https://www.bonfire.com/store/agile-learning-center-nyc-shop/
or https://donorbox.org/alc-nyc !

We're an independent school for self-directed learners located in NYC!

05/28/2024

We're excited about the beautiful update to the network website...and to be hosting the upcoming trainings in Atlanta and NYC! Check it out:

See where the latest Agile Learning Facilitator trainings and gatherings will be and access ongoing ALC training materials.

02/12/2024

Come test your chess against world-ranked players! Alongside up to 50 others! At the same time!!! Attendees can help us fundraise and have a chance to win a lesson with a grandmaster, too. See you February 29th!

Love chess? Join us for an online event where attendees play, watch, and learn from world ranked players Charlie Rosado and Illia Nyzhnyk!

06/20/2023

The space is too clean and quiet! But there's always more moving than what's visible...
Ryan and Nahla are reflecting, getting family time, and planning fall already. Mel is preparing to leave for their next grand adventure. Abby is en route to host a training and doing her end-of-year paperwork. And our lovely window gardens are growing!

06/13/2023

We're hosting summer events here at home and in Atlanta! Check it out:

We’re Agile Learning Facilitators or ALFs. We are educators, social entrepreneurs, and activists who are changing the world by creating an education system for the 21st century. We run a community of schools and homeschool groups that fundamentally empower young people to create their own lives, a...

05/06/2023

We're relaunching our summer trainings! Join us in July for a co-designed experience that blends theory and practice ✨️

03/28/2023

We love a dog friend! Volume management is a skill we’re always working on, and there’s nothing quite like a small, sensitive, quaking canine pal to inspire us to practice 🐶

02/02/2023

“Stay Positive!”
c. 2023
(Mixed media felt, glue, cotton swabs, expired covid tests)

01/26/2023

Today, while most of the school was out on an ice skating field trip, fiber arts happened online because we’re still offering hybrid virtual/in-person learning! Why? Not only does relieve feelings of FOMO for sick community members (without sharing germs!), it feels like a obvious extension of our founding philosophy “learning is natural and happening all the time!” We’ve always offered “offsite” learning, and we’re excited about another way to support learners, on-site and off!

01/17/2023

Anyone for boba tea? In our weekly, student-led art class, we all draw something special, step-by-step, together (and then we die from cuteness!)

01/13/2023

This Friday, we’re celebrating all the other unscheduled learning that’s happening (all the time!) - shoutout to our current longest streak holder for hitting 100 days!