sabrina sideris

Sabrina Sideris is the Program Director of Community Studies at the University of Colorado – Boulder and an instructor with the INVST Community Leadership Program. Sabrina’s professional purpose is to help young adults come to life as they decide upon a course of reflective action for social and environmental change. She has an MA in Peace Education from the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She is also a communitarian and she is passionate about co-ops.

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we asked Sabrina..

[see the list Sabrina refers to just below the idec icon..]

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she is one of idec 2013’s coffee talkers:

One of her desires for idec 2013 is to circle back to a conversation from the US Social Forum in June ’10. Below find remnants of thinking/conversation at that time:

We have a clear vision of the qualities we seek in a young person who has experienced and moved through the education we want offered.  These are the “standards” most important to us.

·       They are confident, creative, generative, passionate, empowered, independent, interdependent.

·       They have power and their school belongs to them, they count.

·       They possess knowledge of history and solidarity.

·       They feel honored, nurtured, respected, connected

·       They have no sense of artificially imposed limitations.

·       They have lost the sense of entitlement so many Americans often have.

·       They are connected to their life purpose and the future that is in front of them.

·       They are filled with the joy of being alive and know the joy of play.

·       They have a keen sense of place.  They know they come from some place and have a sense of purpose and connection and the tools to interact with that place.  They also know they are going somewhere and have the skills and tools to enter into a new place and connect with new people, spaces, and challenges.

·       They understand that learning is a collaborative process.

·       They possess creative and critical thinking skills and the ability to synthesize.

·       They have a reverence for other beings and the planet.

·       The understand food and its relationship to the ecosystem.

·       They are aware of the world as it is today.  They see the world clearly and beyond the current moment.

·       They leave school feeling healed, expanded.

·       They have the tools, literacy, and power to move through the world they inhabit.

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read more of Sabrina in this post where she is featured as future change-maker: