Seeking Partners to Imagine Extraordinary, Progressive Community School

Greetings,

Newly credentialed, visionary teacher who has worked with children in Sonoma County for the past eleven years seeks other visionaries who are interested in creating an innovative school/learning center focused on teaching all subjects integrated and through the lens of sustainability and social justice using art, project-based, inquiry, service learning and nature. I believe we need to transform both the curriculum AND the way we teach. I have been contemplating this for ten years and researching models. There are many possibilities.

I imagine integrating components of unschooling, democratic/free schools, multi-age, open source learning, Permaculture, Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Positive Discipline, Maker’s Faire, a working farm, mindfulness, wilderness awareness, place-based and Indigenous Education and outdoor learning. I am seeking highly creative and collaborative folks with similar passions to co-create this new model of education.

“What can educators do to foster real intelligence? …We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the Earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving restoration, obligation and wildness.” ~ David Orr

Please contact me if would like to explore this idea further.

Warmly,

Sasha Benedetti