We developed the Suncoast Natural Learning Center as an alternative to traditional schooling. 

We believe that the "one size fits all" approach of traditional schooling does not produce the creative thinkers that are needed in our ever changing and complicated world.  

Teaching kids the same things in the same ways as has been done for decades makes little sense, and does not reflect our current society or, more broadly, our new world.   

To quote John Holt: "Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."

For more thoughts on this and more on our personal adventure into unschooling, visit the scnlc blog: http://scnlc.blogspot.com/

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide an open, natural, caring environment that will foster a healthy love of learning and one that encourages and supports growth into creative, adventurous and kind adults that live their lives with great meaning and joy.