lab people – beginnings
can work on individual pages if that’s a desire..?
I connect to a virtual mentor. We focus on ways to change up the 7 hours a day we call school. I start reading many books and connecting to many people online via twitter and webinars. I lurk. I listen.
Bold dreaming begins.
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In their spare time from piloting a self-directed math class, youth in Loveland, CO, craft a plan to redefine school. Our district gives us spaces of permission to be.
We listen. More.
This listening without an agenda allures youth voices. Strong voices from within, often quoting experts they’ve not read.
We prototype. We practice. We fail.
We begin research with local uni professor. We connect with unschooling parents. We begin learning how theory becomes practice. More doing, more prototyping, tons of documenting.
Incredible
insight
from
failing
…surfaces.
city as floorplan
Year four has community, life, as school, with the city as the floor plan. Your School Design It. (Your PD Design It) Highschool buildings become resource and meet up hubs.
responsibility
the plan unfolds
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for more history of the lab, see this video set/documentation (reverse chronological order)
or this bird’s eye view looking forward from 2009
Fyi: most italicized words are titles of slidedecks, found within this narrative deck:awakening indispensable people
be you. 