What if school introduced you to exciting new possibilities and you got to choose what to learn?
What if school was a place where you could be yourself?
What if school was joyful? What if school was kind?

What does it mean to offer an unschooling program? Isn't that an oxymoron!? Well...​

Yes! And, no. What we mean is that we know some students are already very independent learners; they know what they want to learn and how to go about it. They don't need to be led. At Global Village we endorse and support the value of this type of self-directed learning. You can have the best of both worlds - all the benefits of unschooling with the support of seasoned educators in an accredited program. We will work with you in designing and documenting a non-traditional unschooling education that meets high school graduation and legal requirements as well as the unique needs and interests of your family. You can purchase any Global Village courses that interest you and work with us to modify them, or you can work with us to design and document your own thing.

Why Global Village?
Providing your children with an education aligned with your progressive values 

Founded in 1999, Global Village School is an accredited, highly personalized K-12 distance-learning diploma program that empowers parents around the world to provide an inspiring, enlivening, relevant, and engaging educational experience for their children. We dedicate ourselves to nurturing the well-being of children, families, communities, and our Planet Earth. Our homeschool curriculum integrates self-knowledge, social justice, and sustainability studies with the core subjects.

​What sets us apart from other online schools (or distance learning schools)? Our creative flexible approach, our openness to unschoolers, and our emphasis on peace, justice, diversity and sustainability. We recognize students as individuals with unique needs, interests, and learning styles. We work to adapt our homeschool curriculum to our students, rather than forcing students to adapt to the curriculum. We empower our students to pursue their future goals in a way that enables them to prepare for college while building on their strengths and talents and staying true to who they are. We work to nurture and protect the passion and enthusiasm for creating a better world inherent in so many young people. We seek to help our students lead authentic and meaningful lives, and strive to have them leave school feeling confident in their abilities to make an impact on the world around them.

​"I am so glad to have found your website. I am planning to homeschool my 5-year old, and was mainly leaning toward an unschooling approach... We were mostly searching for character-education curriculum to supplement our "unschooling" and help us teach values/morals, but after looking through your site, I am interested in using your curriculum for everything, as it seems very child-centered, and because yours are the values I want to instill in my children."

 Jennifer, K-8 parent, Missouri

Our Approach

• We meet students where they are, adjusting our approach to meet their needs.
• We empower students to care for themselves, their communities, and the planet.
• We focus on core academic skills, self-knowledge, and global citizenship.
• Each child is the author of their own learning journey. Students set their learning paths based on their individual passions, interests, and skills.
• We support creativity and connection.
• We provide a personalized, nurturing environment.

Our Mission,  Vision, and Values

• We support families shaping tomorrow's global citizens with an individualized, enlivening, and holistic educational experience.

• We envision a vibrant, diverse culture where people live authentic and meaningful lives, understand their deep interconnection and interdependence with the rest of the planet, and are inspired to tend to our global community and environment.

• We value connection and relationship.
• We will treat you with compassion and respect.
• We are a non-profit organization; we exist to be of service to children and the world.

​Our Proven Track Record

• Supporting homeschooling families for over 20 years, since 1999.
• We have earned accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) through a rigorous and continual self-study process
• Numerous colleges have accepted our graduates.
• Our teachers have many decades of experience.
• We are an international community of kindred spirits: we have served families in 48 states and over 50 countries. Global Village families care about supporting their children’s unique gifts and talents while striving to make the world a better place.

A wide variety of families and groups have found our values to be compatible with theirs, such as Buddhists, Unitarian Universalists, Waldorf schools, secular homeschoolers, families that have enjoyed Montessori schools, unschooling families, students living abroad, and families who are international travelers. We partner with homeschooling groups and people starting schools to provide curriculum, teacher support, consulting, learning styles profiles, and more.

Come Alive with Global Village School!

Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that,
because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

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