Posts tagged West Coast
Jeff, Researcher, School Founder & Father, CA

"That's the major pivot, is that schools become much more about relationship and much more about listening to, protecting, and wrapping our arms around children. And then those are the outcomes we chase, those are the things we measure. The depth and quality of relationships amongst the children, that they feel cared about, loved and protected."

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Anica, Graduate Student and Former Teacher, CA

"Schools should push every child to be themselves, and give them the resources and support they need to pursue what they want to pursue. But also give them the space for them to figure that out for themselves. This is a difficult thing to do, but I think if schools are places of wonder and excitement, it’s okay if kids are on different levels."

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Katie, Graduate Student & Former Teacher, CA

"I think [school] is really about developing values and there are so many ways to do that. Curriculum matters less and less the more I think about it. But, that's not feasible in our society; we are beholden to these content driven standards. But, I think that…deriving the ability to think deeply, to communicate and ask questions, to recognize beauty and be inspired by it… that's ideally what schools do and those are the skills that kids remember and hold on to.”

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Joseph, Graduate Student, CA

"Schools should provide facilitation…providing opportunity without spoon-feeding a prescribed path or stairway for getting to that happy point. School should make it possible to have a productive journey there, but I don't think they should decide what the productive journey is and then enforce it.”

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