Design A School 8-2: Clubhouse Democracy Wk.1 Podcast
What is Clubhouse Democracy ? What is a Transitional Model? We discuss.
Canadian, British, Leonard now lives in the Spanish countryside. He worked at Summerhill School for twelve years as a teacher, Curriculum Advisor and Education Manager. Leonard was co-principal of his own democratic school, owner/director of a small Home School Centre, developed Club House Democracy for state school classrooms, was a founding member of Eudec and with Jason, created Summerhill Democratics in 2014.
Optional Lessons 3
Optional Lessons are not offered in isolation but with a number of surrounding factors that are needed for success.
Design A School 3-2: Our Mission Statement Podcast
Designing a Democratic Free School needs a solid vision, mission statement. We discuss the principles that we think are essential for our school..
Design a School 2-3: Vision/Mission Statement Summary
Reflections on Mission Statements. In this blog we think over what we discussed in our last podcast and offer some suggestions about the way forward
Design A School 2-2: Vision/Mission Statement Podcast
This week’s Design A School Podcast is about The Vision/ Mission Statement. What does that mean ? What makes a good Mission Statement/Vision.
Design A School 1-3: Reasons Why Summary
We have different motivations for designing a model school Leonard: Pointing To Thinking over the podcast it’s very obvious to me that I’m designing this school as a Demonstration Transitional Model. I want to invite people to follow along as we discuss all the critical aspects of the engine that is a…
Design A School 1-2 Reasons Why Podcast
This is the first of a series of Podcasts. We talk about our motivations: why are we interested in setting up democratic schools? Our motivations are different and yours will be too! Share your ideas with us
Qualities of Teachers 6 – Personality
Qualities of Teachers : Personality of Teachers and Schools Clara was an experienced but frustrated state school Science teacher and very much wanted to find a better situation for herself. One Friday evening, over drinks, a friend told her about Summerhill. The philosophy interested her and she bought the book, Summerhill, and then visited the…
The Essentials: Big, Little or In Between
Big Little or In Between Here There and Everywhere We’ve been talking about democracy and scale … size of the school and the building and the finances and the student population and the number of staff and so on. Can a democratic free school environment work regardless of scale; how does scale change delivery? Are…
Leonard’s Bits and Pieces #1
Nation State Education is a Church and the young must worship for up to 20 years in this highly controlled One Learning environment.
