Background
Grace Llewellyn was born on March 18, 1964, in Boise, Idaho, United States. She is the daughter of David Lowry and Gai Llewellyn.
Grace Llewellyn
Sayles Hill Campus Center, North College Street, Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Grace received a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1986.
Sayles Hill Campus Center, North College Street, Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Grace received a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1986.
Grace Llewellyn
(Explores how teenagers can leave school and design a pers...)
Explores how teenagers can leave school and design a personalized education program for themselves.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1862041040/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(In 1993, eleven homeschooled teenagers described their li...)
In 1993, eleven homeschooled teenagers described their lives in rich detail, and Real Lives quickly became a homeschooling classic. Erin’s favorite teacher was her horse Nick, blind in one eye. Kyla flew to South America in September of what would have been her senior year—alone, except for her mountain bike.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/096295912X/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(Why don't more African Americans school their children at...)
Why don't more African Americans school their children at home? By many accounts, there is every reason to avoid public schools, with their low academic expectations for black children, their general avoidance of black history, and their reputation for violence and negative peer pressure.
https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Challenge-African-American-Homeschoolers/dp/0962959111
1996
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2001
Grace Llewellyn was born on March 18, 1964, in Boise, Idaho, United States. She is the daughter of David Lowry and Gai Llewellyn.
Grace received a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1986.
Grace Llewellyn taught school for three years before unschooling herself and writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook at the age of twenty-six. Llewellyn published it in 1991 through her publishing company, Lowry House Publishers. She has since edited Real Lives: eleven teenagers who don’t go to school and Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and written Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School with co-author Amy Silver.
With the goal of helping people, mostly teenagers, take more control over their own lives and educations, she has also spoken to groups and conferences, given workshops, directed a resource center, produced a mail order book catalog, published a newsletter, and written articles.
In 1996, Grace founded Not Back to School Camp for unschooled teenagers, which she continues to direct each year in Oregon and West Virginia. The Camp attracts teens from all over the United States, Canada, and other countries. It offers campers support in pursuing varied avenues of education by connecting them with a pool of unschooling peers and an eclectic staff. The activities range from kung fu to cob-oven building to Zimbabwean singing to college applications, reflecting the talents and interests of staff and campers.
Since 2017, Llewellyn has directed The Hive: Self-Directed Learning Center for Teens. The center is an alternative to traditional school that follows the 22-year tested Liberated Learners model pioneered by North Star.
Grace Llewellyn is a well-known author of books on how to take charge of your education within the school system. Her best known work is The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education. She is also the founder of The Hive educational resource center in Springfield, Oregon, where youth are supported in leaving school and taking charge of their own learning.
(Why don't more African Americans school their children at...)
1996(In 1993, eleven homeschooled teenagers described their li...)
1993(Explores how teenagers can leave school and design a pers...)
1991Grace married Skip Bergin in May, 1993. They divorced in 1998. They have a son.
