Connect with local families. Learn how they are doing modular learning and get inspired! Reach out to a family whose approach and values resonate with you to organize a playdate, join a class, learn more about their experience or just say hi!

Play is a universal, cross-cultural and necessary attribute of childhood, essential for development and essential for learning. Experts who study it say that play is intrinsic to children’s natures, but still needs support and attention from the adults around them.

Forest School is an inspirational process, that offers ALL learners regular opportunities to achieve and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in a woodland or natural environment with trees. Forest School is a specialised learning approach that sits within and complements the wider context of outdoor and woodland education.”

Third.Haus is a space for kids to both realize and release their passions through curiosity, commitment, and patience. Each creative session is co-created between kids in the studio and our professional artists, musicians, makers, builders, and creators. Through mentors’ expertise, love for creating, and passion to share their talents, kids in our studio are exposed to and inspired by many different forms of creative expression. All kids in our studio will have the opportunity to define what it means for them to be a storyteller, builder, producer, performer, communicator, and designer.

HUFS|SF hosts a joyful meetup every Friday with learners of all ages at the boathouse and is a wonderful way to get introduced to the independent learning community in the city of San Francisco. “The intention for HUGS Friday play day is to be a thriving gathering of diverse ages and peoples where community members actively participate by attending regularly or volunteer to be a play day greeter or volunteer hosting/ facilitating activities/ crafts/ clubs/ skill sharing within the HUGS play day itself. Let's connect, cross pollinate, collaborate, and co-create! “

If you’re looking for a supportive homeschooling community in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area, you’ve come to the right place! The San Francisco Homeschoolers group is an all-inclusive, enthusiastic community focused on fun, friendship, and support for all homeschooling and unschooling families in the Bay Area.