Updated 2025-01-10

On the Cusp of a Movement

An event by members/supporters of the Rights-Centric Education Network at the LearningPlanet Festival. See the website in description for more related Festival events, taking place from January 16-31, 2025.
Uniting for Children and Youth organizer
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Jan 16, 2025, 11:00am — Jan 16, 2025, 12:30pm EST

Description

We are today where we were during the Free School Movement over fifty years ago. The following 1969 quote by George Dennison describes education today as much as it did in the 1960s.

“One hears more frequently now of parents banding together, finding teachers, and starting little schools . . . There are no signs that a movement exists, but there are many signs that one might . . .”

This event is to add to the global conversation about a new social contract for education with the view that we are all complicit in how public education has failed to adjust to the times. It is based on a document titled “On the Cusp of a Movement: How the Rights-Centric Education Network Offers to Accelerate the Establishment of a Community of Practice” being finalized for publication on January 24, 2025.

To prepare for the session, please view the Two Loops Model video and read the Prologue to On the Cusp of a Movement.

Part of the LearningPlanet Festival, where thousands are joining in person and online to celebrate education, collaboration, and learning for a better future.

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