Design A School 3-3 : Our Mission Statement
Here we provide a concise description of what we would like to see in a simple Mission/Vision Statement. It is not definitive! We will come back and edit it as we go through this design process.
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Design A School 3-1: Our Mission Statement
We discuss the theme of the week: how to get going on a sensible mission statement. We don’t always agree, but we always discuss.
Design A School 2-1: Visions
In Design a School Week 2 We Blog and Podcast about Vision or Mission Statements Shaking All Over Leonard I’m not comfortable with the word Vision or the Phrase Mission Statement. To me, a Vision is something you see in a state of heightened unawareness. Up there in the clouds. And then you fall backwards…
Design A School 1-1: Reasons Why
In Design a School Week 1 we are going to Blog and Podcast about our reasons and motivations for doing this project Jason: Raspberries I guess my reasons for getting into democratic education are mostly negative. That means I don’t want to pass on my own experience of school. It certainly turned…
Design A School Thoughts: Activation Not Inspiration
The Design a School as well our Summerhill Democratics consultancy are offered to kick start a new phrase: Activation Not Inspiration. Here are some Thoughts. Thoughts From Leonard Activation not Inspiration I’ve seen waves of inspiration, waves of media attention ( especially in the early 70’s), waves of joyful, inexperienced educational pilgrims…
Evidence for Openness: 7 ideas
The open classroom is back. I have my doubts about the phenomenon and want to see some evidence for the effectiveness of the trend.
Open Classrooms: past and future
This post looks at open classrooms. Don’t we need to think about the past before heading into an uncertain future? We’ve been here before.
Evidence based democratic education
Democratic schools should be at the forefront of evidence-based teaching. If teaching is better democratic school students have the most to win: they gain their freedom from the classroom!
Against Obedience
Obedience is the bedrock of authoritarian systems: you do what you are told. In this post I put the case for bucking obedience and building a different world based on freedom. I Won’t Do What You Tell Me Conservatives tell us that in the past everyone just did what they were told and everything was…
Curriculum Matters
Talking about the Curriculum in democratic free schools.
