Seeking Partners to Imagine Extraordinary, Progressive Community School

[Jupiter13]

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