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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Oct 4, 2008
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There are hundreds of manuals and workbooks and binders out there about how to teach and train young people, with most of them being well-intended and sometimes interesting. I'm guilty of writing more than one. But sometimes I forget to boil it down to its essence, the point. Here are three...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 28, 2008
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"Our ultimate aim is not desegregation from a legal aspect. We seek the kind of integration where men come together willingly, not because there is a law." Dr. King spoke this idea in June 1958 in the midst of the early Civil Rights Movement and not long after the court-ordered...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 15, 2008
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Talk about the meeting of jargon... the Coordinated School Health model , or CSH, was created by Drs. Diane Allensworth and Lloyd Kolbe of the Centers for Disease Control in 1987. Their model focuses on the systematic entwinement of eight components in order to promote more effective school...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 7, 2008
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This month's Educational Leadership magazine really impresses me. The first article, entitled " Joy in School ," is one of the bravest I have ever read, if only because the author boldly supposes that schools and teachers can "bring some joy into children's formal education." Now, that isn't as...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 24, 2008
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About five years ago, in one of my final conversations with Sasha Rabkin (whom I've mentioned before ), I learned about his conceptualization of "democracy schools," different from democratic schools. This isn't the same as some national programs already at work, but they aren't entirely...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 21, 2008
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My friend Melia just wrote a great blog entry about the challenges to democratic education in public schools. Five years ago Melia co-founded a nonprofit in the Bay Area that engages students in apprenticeships to explore professions; it looks like an innovative program, and Melia is a...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 22, 2008
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Okay, so to continue from the last post, here's one reason why schools today are not democratic. Remember, this is why , not how. Schools in a capitalistic society are going to be... capitalistic. Working with an elementary school in Tampa, Florida, I learned about the reality of 3rd, 4th...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 11, 2008
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At the International Democratic Education Conference in Vancouver last week I had the privilege of facilitating three open space workshops. The three were all exhilarating conversations, filled with questions and criticisms, hope and idealism, and contradictions. The people I met and the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jul 14, 2008
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The latest edition of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's Northwest Education magazine features an interview with me about meaningful student involvement. Its called " Students as Partners in Learning: Adam Fletcher Talks about Meaningful Student Involvement ," and its part of an...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 10, 2008
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I had an excellent conversation yesterday with the parent of two students from Olympia's Waldorf School . Following the traditional Waldorf curriculum , here in Olympia the school is regarded as the anti-traditional public school - much as other Waldorf schools are regarded internationally....... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Feb 16, 2008
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As I completed the SoundOut Student Voice Curriculum I compiled a list of basic knowledge about the education system students need to have in order to be effective school change agents. This is based on my experience working with hundreds of students in schools across the U.S., as well as...... [view]
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