Okay everybody, I am absolutely 100% serious about starting a new school in the Saratoga Springs, NY area. I have been talking to people but my friends aren't really into this kind of thing, I am not sure how to go about finding founding members. If you are at all interested in starting a founding group/teaching, please contact me at elizabet...@yahoo.com
And even if you are not... could I please get some advice on how to go about finding founding members to join me? Thank you!
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Liz--I don't live in the area, but am part of a founding group for a school in Orange County, California. I started by just putting up a simple website (had to pick a name, but I knew it was a place holder), sending emails to everyone I knew, holding informational meetings, and, most importantly, putting a link to my site from Wikipedia. There are two lists: list of democratic schools and list of Sudbury schools. Out of the three additional founders, two of them found me through Wikipedia, and it's the site that gives us the second most referrals to this day (first is Facebook, so start a Facebook page too). If people are looking for schools like ours in your area, they often check Wikipedia. It's a great way to raise your flag and see who responds.Cassi
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Liz Witbeck <beanert...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Okay everybody, I am absolutely 100% serious about starting a new school in the Saratoga Springs, NY area. I have been talking to people but my friends aren't really into this kind of thing, I am not sure how to go about finding founding members. If you are at all interested in starting a founding group/teaching, please contact me at elizabet...@yahoo.com
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Okay everybody, I am absolutely 100% serious about starting a new school in the Saratoga Springs, NY area. I have been talking to people but my friends aren't really into this kind of thing, I am not sure how to go about finding founding members. If you are at all interested in starting a founding group/teaching, please contact me at elizabet...@yahoo.com
And even if you are not... could I please get some advice on how to go about finding founding members to join me? Thank you!
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Hello Liz,I'm also "100% in" on starting a Sudbury school. I'm a Northern Californian who will be moving to New York in the near future. I always have my radar out for the "needle in the haystack" that the original founders describe finding fellow founders :) Where in California are you currently situated?Jill Brunak
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Anyone in central MA ? l am looking for a founding partner.
I'm going to see about building a network in the NYC area. I will keep you posted on progress.
Chris
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About Sudbury SchoolsIf you were to visit a Sudbury school, you would find individuals and groups of age mixed kids and young adults from 4 to 19 years old, talking, playing, reading, thinking, watching, exploring, doing anything they might choose to do, in different areas of the school. You would also see adult staff members present but taking a back seat and providing input only when students reach out to them for it. You would see a school meeting take place where everyone, students and staff alike, have an equal say in establishing and enforcing the rules of the school from determining how the various departments operate like the the kitchen and music room for example, to what the specific consequences for an infraction are going to be, to determining salaries, staffing and school budgets.
This is a profoundly different scene from what we are used to at school. No regimented teaching. No testing. No prescribed curriculum. No age segregated classes. No adults making the rules and administering the structure and content to kids. All of these adult-driven authoritarian constructs have been replaced by a peer-based open framework of freedom and democracy. In a nutshell, kids spending their time freely, in whatever way they choose, in a community they help run as a participatory democracy.
In existence since 1967, today there are 30+ Sudbury schools around the world and growing, and together they represent significant experience putting this model into practice. They find that their students are self confident, articulate, happy, know themselves well, are comfortable with risk, good with people, collaborative, creative, competitive with themselves but not against others, are analytical, have an inner calm, a strong sense of responsibility, tend to interact in a non authoritarian democratic mode, are good at working towards finding their passion in life, and do extremely well in post secondary education and in their lives generally.
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How about Alaska? Anyone interested in opening one up north? :-)
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Anyone in central MA ? l am looking for a founding partner.
On May 24, 2013 1:22 PM, "Liz Witbeck" <beanert...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thank you Chris for your interest! I unfortunately don't know about anything going on in NYC... there's already a couple democratic schools down there and I'm not sure there's a market to open up a new one. Anyway, I'm glad to have supporters, whether they are nearby or far away!
On Friday, May 24, 2013 7:55:40 AM UTC-7, Chris Enock wrote:Hi Liz,--I Live in NYC and have family in Saratoga Springs. I would be interested in exploring the idea / helping with founding a school. Not sure how practical for me in Saratoga, but you never know. I'm also interested in any goings-on in the NYC area if you know of anything.Thanks,Chris
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Chris, I joined your meetup group :) Hope to actually meetup sometime!
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