Unschool simply means interest-based, child/teen-led education: allowing them the freedom to come up with their own projects, read the books they like; follow their own rabbit trails; have a lot of unstructured time; etc. This can mean supporting the student in an enriched environment doing projects, joining teams or productions or whatever, using a curriculum–whatever it is (within reason, of course) that interests the student and is done without a lot of coercion. This also incorporates goals. For example, unschoolers who want to go to college look at the colleges which interest them and determine what they need to do to get there. For my D, it was concentrate on her “dreaded subject,” math; she focused on it for a bit so she could make sure her math ACT score was fine. Was she interested in the math? No. But, she was interested in achieving her goal of college admissions with scholarships.