and & conversation

playing with acronyms [IDEA & IDEC] as a means to capture/paint essence..

loving IDEA’s focus – on

Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice. It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. It’s a way of gathering together a vast and powerful set of ideas, philosophies of learning, research, school models, teaching practices, policies, and community visions so that a powerful story can be told that reclaims the “public” in public education — that is, education owned by all of us.

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loving IDEC’s focus on

How to have the conversation start now, whenever now is, and so be:

 prior to the face to face time

during the face to face time

after the face to face time.

A story about people grokking what matters. Ongoing conversation.

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loving the focus on emocracy with a lower case d.

enoting again, the beauty/freedom/soul-ness of and.