Creating a Free Learner Movement-Phase I
Project scope
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Communications Marketing strategy Media EducationSkills
social media planning social media content creation social media content self-discipline comprehensive planning research web developmentNumber of positions available: 3 teams of 2-3 persons
The UnschoolingSchool.com team is working with Riipen students across Canada to synthesize the many sources of proof and evidence that Self-Directed Education (SDE) works and is an optimal way to educate children. For more information about the overall scope of our amazing project click on the Resources Section.
Free Learner (FL) is a new designation that applies to students who wish to take responsibility for their time and learning path. The FL label is self-assigned by students and their families, rather than by experts, to announce that they require and deserve approaches to learning that work best for them. The FL label indicates to the school that the student will operate under an alternate set of parameters, expectations, and responsibilities and, as such, require accommodation in the class and school. See https://www.unschoolingschool.com/free-learner.html
This project is Phase I of, Creating a National Free Learner Movement: empowering K-12 students to stand up to the coercive education system and take charge of their life at school.
1. Planning the movement:
- Researching 'how to create a movement'
- Development of a comprehensive plan (ie what is needed to make it happen--social media, partnerships, spokes people)
2. Website creation and promotion
- FreeLearner.ca (development of a youth-led free-standing site, backed up by UnschoolingSchool.com)
3. Social media
- content creation and promotion
Possible sources:
1. UnschoolingSchool.com site and Embracing the Innate Philosophy of Learning.doc (in Resources section)
2. Completed reports from our other Riipen projects (in Resources section)
Possible approach:
- research and brainstorm ways to create a movement
- design methodology and phases
- develop FreeLearner.ca website and related social media platforms and messaging plan
- connect with teams on the Riipen Student Survey project and Grown Canadian Self-Directed Learners project
We are looking for 3 teams of 2-4 people working together--one team on movement development outreach and partnership; a second team on website development; and a third team on social media content development. The three teams will need to work synergistically to support each other and create the movement.
Deliverable is a function website, integrated social media (Tic Toc, Insta, YouTube, Twitter, FB etc.) and comprehensive plan outlining the next 3-4 phases of the movement (details to be discussed prior to the start of the project)
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
– Khalil Gibran
About the company
We are a national non-for profit organization dedicated to creating a shift in what counts as learning and education. We are seeking open-minded, critical, and creative thinkers to seek out evidence for our belief that the time is NOW to radically change public schooling and create meaningful, sustainable, learning opportunities for all.
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.” Doris Lessing in The Golden Notebook
We are dedicated to changing this narrative!
Unschooling School is in initiative (launched in 2020) of Classroom Connections, founded in 1997.