It has been another productive week, well, in truth a busy 24 hours. Yesterday, a member of the team and I met with the Director of the Canton Day Care Center. She showed us the two spaces that are available to rent in the building that they own on the Maple Wood Campus. The original room that she had mentioned, during our first phone conversation, is an upstairs unfinished space, that is separated from with the Yoga Loft by a curtain. The other space is a classroom within the Day Care itself. They use it for the after school program and we can be flexible enough to accommodate their hours. Both of these possibilities are very enticing, the large empty space, because we can divide it into different usable spaces and the existing classroom, well, because it is already set up and ready to go.
We also received the electronic file with all of the start up materials from Liberated Learners. That means the Articles of Incorporation will be completed, by the end of today, reviewed by the folks who actually understand what they are reading, and filed by the beginning of next week.
This is beginning to feel very real and do-able. My goal is to have a pilot program up and running by January.
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Help Wanted:
Now is the time to talk this up! Lets get this vision out there into the wider world. Last night I created an outreach poster that will be part of a folder that each Food Day Youth Summit participant will be receiving upon registration. The event is being organized by GardenShare and will be held at SUNY Potsdam. If you are able to put posters up in the community, let me know and I will get them printed. Continuing with the subject of publicity, I am still in need of someone who is conversant enough with computers to help build a website. I already have the domain name and have started to play (dabble, bumble, etc.) around building a Google site.
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More links that explain the benefits of self-directed, non-coercive, and non-compulsory learning http://alternativestoschool.com/the-human-nature-of-education/#subcontent3 |
Deep Root Center for self directed Learning 