NYC's first Agile Learning Center is currently enrolling students ages 7-16. RSVP to the Parent Interest Night this Thursday, October 23rd to learn more and begin the enrollment process!
Category: Events
Educators and Interested Friends Tour at the Brooklyn Free School Thursday, November 6, 2014.
Educators and Interested Friends Tour at the Brooklyn Free School
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
9:00-10:30 am
If you are a teacher, teacher educator or thinking about alternative education you are welcome to join this tour. See the school in action, talk with students and consider ideas you can use in your workplaces. For more information about the school and directions visit www.brooklynfreeschool.org.
Please email kathy@brooklynfreeschool.org to hold a spot on this tour.
Please email kathy@brooklynfreeschool.org to hold a spot on this tour.
Upcoming PD Courses for Teachers and Graduate Program Deadlines.
Teaching for a Positive Future: Six Week Online Course
Registration Deadline: October 5, 2014
Event: October 6 – November 19, 2014
Contact: Emma Mathis at emma@humaneeducation.org / 207-667-1025
Educators, take a six-week online course this fall with teachers from across the globe and learn to inspire students to become Solutionaries—leaders and changemakers in their communities – capable of creating a just, compassionate, and restorative world. Register for Institute for Humane Education’s Teaching for a Positive Future 1 by October 5. CEUs available. Class starts October 6 and runs through November 19, 2014. For more information and to register, please click here [http://humaneeducation.org/online-courses/teaching-for-a-positive-future/]. The cost is $150, and a limited number of scholarships is available.
A Better World, A Meaningful Life: 30-Day Online Course
Registration Deadline: October 5, 2014
Event: October 6 – November 14, 2014
Contact: Emma Mathis at emma@humaneeducation.org, 207-667-1025
A Better World, A Meaningful Life is designed for individuals new to humane education who want to put their vision for a better world, and a more joyful, examined life into practice. From thoughtful and inspiring course exercises, to the dynamic conversations with fellow participants, to mentoring from your course instructor—you’ll find the support and motivation you need to bring more joy, balance, and meaning to your life. This course is designed to make a positive difference in your life—and the lives of other people, animals and the planet. Register for Institute for Humane Education’s A Better World, A Meaningful Life by October 5. CEUs available. Class starts October 6 and runs through November 14, 2014. For more information and to register, please click here [http://humaneeducation.org/online-courses/a-better-world-a-meaningful-life/]. The cost is $150, and a limited number of scholarships is available.
Institute for Humane Education's Graduate Programs
Registration Deadlines: December 1 for M.Ed. and December 15 for M.A., Ph.D., and graduate certificate program.
Contact: Mary Pat Champeau at marypat@humaneeducation.org , 207-667-1025
Learn how to turn your compassion and convictions into action through education. IHE’s online graduate programs are designed to give you the skills to integrate humane education deeply into your teaching, work, life, community, and the world. For more information, click here [http://humaneeducation.org/graduate-programs/].
Calling all leaders and visionaries committed to transforming the education system! – The 2014 Education Jam
Calling all leaders and visionaries committed to transforming the education system!
We invite you for a unique opportunity to co-learn, co-create and JAM with a diversity of folks from around the US and beyond, who are working in dynamic ways to change education as we know it.
The second annual Education Jam will take place from July 28th to August 3rd, 2014 at the Wonder Wall Mountain Refuge in Springfield, New Hampshire.
Apply today! Priority application deadline: June 23, 2014.
More about the Education Jam:
30 leaders and visionaries will gather for six days in a beautiful retreat center in the New Hampshire wilderness. We will spend the time building community, deepening in stories and perspectives, sharing places of growth and struggle, and co-creating inspiration and vision.
We will be inviting folks from around the education world: public, private, independent, and charter schools, unschooling, homeschooling, learning communities, youth empowerment, and more. We acknowledge that in the education sector there is a fair amount of division around definitions of the “best way forward”. We also know that across the spectrum, people working in the education world are constantly giving of themselves. The Education Jam will make space to listen and learn from our diversity, engage in new synergies, find inspiration and rejuvenation, and begin to build towards a common vision with each of our own unique contributions.
Over the course of the whole Jam, we will have time to engage with questions like:
- What is your personal story around education? How do your experiences inform the path you have chosen to take?
- What does learning mean to you? What does unlearning mean to you?
- What are your traumas and your triumphs around education?
- When did your heart fully enter this work? How are you fed and sourced in what you do today?
- How are you living the values and world you are trying to create?
- What kind of support do you need to help come into deeper alignment with that world? What kind of support can you offer others to support their journey into deeper alignment?
We will use a variety of learning modalities – from movement and bodywork, to storytelling and myth making, to visual and performing arts, to small group dialogues, to whole group conversations. There will be space for silence and for connecting with nature. The Jam will unfold to make space for our whole selves, for our spirits, for one another, for our highest dreams and our deepest fears. All of it will be welcome.
The Jam will create space for transformation on the personal, interpersonal and systemic levels. As with other Jams, we are prepared to be surprised! One hope is that people will have the opportunity to integrate their learnings and carry them home, to be able to find and connect with people who have the heart, spirit, skills and knowledge that they are needing for the next steps of their personal journey and the next steps of our collective journey.
This year’s Education Jam is excited to do some deep dives as a community into the themes of place-based learning, learning from/through/with nature, self-designed learning and design thinking, student leadership development, alternative assessment, and more… We are looking forward to co-creating these deep dives with the experiences, questions, struggles and wisdoms of the community of people who gathering.
