How it all began

Radical Learning didn’t start as an idea.

It started in the friction between what we were told should work — and what we could see, again and again, didn’t. And it started when two very different paths came together.

Becka’s path began inside education. As a trained teacher, she worked across different systems and approaches — including founding two Waldorf initiatives. But when her neurodivergent son struggled, it became clear: it wasn’t him. The system — even in its alternative forms — couldn’t fully hold who he was.

Together, they made the decision to leave. To step out of school, and begin unschooling.

Around that same time, Becka founded Explora, Mexico’s first Agile Learning Center. Children began arriving from the system — exhausted, disconnected, already carrying the impact of trying to fit into something that didn’t see them. She didn’t just witness it — she walked with them through it. The unraveling, the resistance, and the slow return to curiosity, trust, and themselves.

Sari’s path began with a different kind of knowing. During pregnancy and early motherhood, she began questioning the systems around her — and what they asked of children and families.

When her son, who is also neurodivergent, approached school age, she visited what was considered one of the best preschools in Brooklyn. She left in tears, with a clear sense: this wasn’t going to work.

Soon after, she found something she didn’t know existed — an Agile Learning Center. Children learning freely. Adults relating differently. Something alive. She joined as a parent, then stepped into leadership — working closely with families and facilitators, and eventually co-directing the center.

Before moving to Mexico, Sari had already found Becka. When she arrived, their work converged. Together, they reshaped Explora — not as a fixed center, but as something more flexible, more human, more responsive.

Over time, their focus shifted. Not away from this work — but deeper into it. Because what they both saw, in completely different contexts, was the same thing:

Leaving the system isn’t enough. The system lives in us — in how we react, how we relate, and how we hold power, learning, and authority.

Radical Learning grew from that recognition — as a space to meet what’s actually happening in real moments, and learn how to respond differently in a way that actually feels different.