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Mission of the project
Mission of the project
The Change Schools to Change the World Project is a collaborative movement to foster a peaceful transformation in education. Recognizing that the human brain is among the most advanced forms of “technology,” this project seeks to reimagine the role of schools as custodians of that potential. Our mission is to align the public education system with brain-based learning principles and design a model that centers the needs of students, educators, and communities, preparing children for a future they are equipped to shape and lead.
The basics:
The basics:
Our inherited public education model was designed in the 18th & 19th centuries by a highly militarized autocratic state, the Kingdom of Prussia, to produce compliant, obedient people for the military and workforce.
With the benefit of scientific insight, today we know safety and connection are nonnegotiable precursors to learning.
compliance/obedience <--are INCONGRUENT--> safety/connection
The failures of public education, therefore, lay not with the educators,
not with the children, not with their families or communities, but instead, with the model we inherited.
Our brains are ancient, advanced, and the one of the most precious resources on the planet today.
They require connection, safety, and meaning to in order to learn. Meet those needs through school design & watch the miraculous happen.
Change our model, change the world.
Historical context:
Historical context:
"The angels of our better nature need not be beat out of us." Edward O. Wilson
"The angels of our better nature need not be beat out of us." Edward O. Wilson
Double Pulitzer Prize winner, naturalist, and biologist Edward O. Wilson studied gene expression, behavior, evolutionary psychology, the biological basis for social behaviors & instincts.
His work found that humanity's virtues are inherent to our species, stitched into our very functioning. If the environment allows, our human virtues will regularly emerge without coercion or force.
We can do better than compliance and obedience. By rethinking and retooling schools, we can let our humanity emerge, and with it, our limitless potential.
Goals of the Project
Goals of the Project
Advance brain-based and student-centered learning practices to create environments that honor the developmental and cognitive needs of every learner.
Engage communities in defining the future of education, bringing together learners, educators, families, and community representatives to collaboratively re-think and re-design schools that reflect shared values and aspirations.
Advocate for equitable funding to reflect the importance of education, striving for a balanced allocation of resources in the national budget that supports education as a foundation for our shared future.
Redesign educational structures to support meaningful community integration and choice by organizing students according to skill level rather than age and expanding student choice in their learning. This approach envisions students contributing to their communities through experiential, community-based learning that strengthens, revitalizes, and transforms the communities where they live.
Learn and share, with compassion and patience, awareness about our persisting model's autocratic origins why it conflicts with the goals of educators: to enable children to learn and thrive.
Reflect on and share *your* own educational journey with the people around you.
Center humanity in education
Center humanity in education
Between implementing talking circles, to adapting hero's journey materials for a elementary audience, we committed to pathways which center humans in schools.
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Be a visible champion
Be a visible champion
Make for yourself and wear a beaded safety pin. The more beaded safety pins we have floating out in this big wide world, the more opportunity there is to identify one another, connect, and build power.
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