Thank you! I am going to do a post about the Appleseed School and I do hope you'll both chime in. I need all the help I can get. I don't have children (I chose not to have them many years ago and had myself sterilized to ensure my own wishes at age 31) but I adore children and obviously want the best for the ones in my area of the world.
I'm thinking I'll start by offering a free after-school course in discursive meditation for kids, mask-free of course. Would any of you be able to help me design the curriculum?
I don't know as much about curriculum as homeschoolers likely do, but I'm happy to help think through and review things. The school we were involved in was early childcare (12 weeks through 5 years) and was based on the Reggio Emilia approach: https://www.education.com/magazine/article/Reggio_Emilia/. My kids have also gone to a French immersion/French curriculum public charter school (also a startup and we were there in the first few years of its operation) and regular, urban public schools. Both are centralized, top-down approaches--set by the French government in the first instance and our state government in the second--so I have some sense of what can work well and what can be pretty horrible.
In addition to curriculum, I think it will be VERY important to consider governing structure, who gets a voice, teacher's rights, etc.. JMG has mentioned pitfalls like entryism, and schools seem to bring out the crazy in people...
Let's talk about this! I was in the early planning stages for a program where I'd be teaching basic meditation and ecological thinking (somewhat inspired by the blend of theory+technique in JMG's Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth) to 10-14 year-olds this summer. The larger program, that this was to be part of, got cancelled due to *the food service operator* having Covid panic four months in advance (!), but it's still a project that's dear to my heart.
More when I can. Be well. And feel free to direct message me via Dreamwidth about this if you'd like.
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I'm thinking I'll start by offering a free after-school course in discursive meditation for kids, mask-free of course. Would any of you be able to help me design the curriculum?
Re: About the school
(Anonymous) 2021-05-01 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)In addition to curriculum, I think it will be VERY important to consider governing structure, who gets a voice, teacher's rights, etc.. JMG has mentioned pitfalls like entryism, and schools seem to bring out the crazy in people...
Re: About the school
Re: About the school
Let's talk about this! I was in the early planning stages for a program where I'd be teaching basic meditation and ecological thinking (somewhat inspired by the blend of theory+technique in JMG's Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth) to 10-14 year-olds this summer. The larger program, that this was to be part of, got cancelled due to *the food service operator* having Covid panic four months in advance (!), but it's still a project that's dear to my heart.
More when I can. Be well. And feel free to direct message me via Dreamwidth about this if you'd like.
Re: About the school