For four consecutive Mondays, we will co-create the city of our dreams.
WHAT are we doing?
If we were to create the city of our wildest dreams, what would it be like? What is a CITY, and what does it mean to live in one? What kinds of things, activities and qualities would we find there?
We will explore these questions in conversation, collaboration and creation. We will investigate resources and skills such as oral history, interviews, brainstorming, drawing, writing, sculpture, mapping, city planning, documentation, and the wonders of the democratic process.
HOW are we doing it?
Our structure is flexible and spacious, allowing time for what emerges from the group; our lesson plan is chock full of possibilities.
We begin each session with a morning meeting facilitated by any experienced person present who wants to lead. Everyone will have the opportunity to check in, share anything with the group and hear how the others are doing. We’ve found that this first activity tunes the group, connects everyone in present-time and sets the tone for the rest of the day.
We will approach the subject material through a range of different activities, such as: teatime and lunchtime, taking breaks and hanging out, working out problems and asking important questions, making messy art, going for walks and enjoying ourselves and each other. We will activate all parts of ourselves; our bodies, feelings, voices, minds and spirits. We are on our own schedule and we aren’t in any great hurry...
CURRICULUM!?
We will combine each child’s ideas and input with a flexible, well-developed curriculum that tips its hat to the California State standards for History-Social Sciences and Visual Arts.
PHILOSOPHY
We believe that the ideal education is built upon the principle of collaborative learning. It is our intention to create the conditions where the genius unique to each human being can truly flourish. We propose that learning functions best in the context of a safe, diverse, supportive community of peers and elders and that curriculum can both be located in all aspects of the world around us and investigated in the ways that work best for each individual.
We will approach the subject material through a range of different activities, such as: teatime and lunchtime, taking breaks and hanging out, working out problems and asking important questions, making messy art, going for walks and enjoying ourselves and each other. We will activate all parts of ourselves; our bodies, feelings, voices, minds and spirits. We are on our own schedule and we aren’t in any great hurry...
CURRICULUM!?
We will combine each child’s ideas and input with a flexible, well-developed curriculum that tips its hat to the California State standards for History-Social Sciences and Visual Arts.
PHILOSOPHY
We believe that the ideal education is built upon the principle of collaborative learning. It is our intention to create the conditions where the genius unique to each human being can truly flourish. We propose that learning functions best in the context of a safe, diverse, supportive community of peers and elders and that curriculum can both be located in all aspects of the world around us and investigated in the ways that work best for each individual.