How well does your school prepare students to address the following conditions?
Conditions Required for Democracy
(Roger Soder, “Education for Democracy,” in Developing Democratic Character in the Young. R. Soder, J. Goodlad, and T. McMannon, 2001.…
Dick,
Thanks for sharing this information. The NNER conference is a perfect venue for the LODS work. In the area of nurturing pedagogy, as an example, the League schools have practices that can be of great help to others working to advance democrati…
The web site for the conference is http://depts.washington.edu/nner2009
On the site you will find info about submitting proposals, making lodging arrangements, and the program.
Speakers include Nel Noddings, John Goodlad, James Comer, Deb Meier, Ca…
In another discussion threat Wendy posted the following statement:
One another side note... last week in the middle of late night conferencing, we got word that for one of our students (who had been suffering from a rare brain tumor) his experimenta…
Always, after the time in Seattle, staff and I reflect on what we can do differently in school. Amazingly, I got back to some heated discourse with my parent community. I had left with them with the apology that I had not followed our process for de…
I think revisiting the book is a good idea. I think also we need to keep in mind that we should also read books that might help us understand our students more. We are currently reading "Throw Ebony Eyes "
Cathie
A recent development - For years at ERS there was no formalized discipline process. All decisions were ad hoc and highly individualized. There were usually more issues than could be dealt with in this way so many things went unaddressed or some issu…
Hi Dick, and welcome to the Five Freedoms Network. It's great to have you here -- how did you hear about us?
That's a gorgeous young lady you're holding in your photo :-)
I checked out your blog, and really like your Op-Ed piece. My hope is that we can find more ways to gather momentum for student-centered learning in democratic communities. I'd love to hear any ideas you might have for how The Five Freedoms Project and the Network can contribute to and/or complement your work.
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