Community Gatherings for Re-Enlivening Educationin Portland, Maine
ALL of our students need to matter to this community. This is fundamental to human wellbeing.
April gatherings
Monday, April 11, 5pm & Thursday, April 28, 7:30pm
We are gathering twice per month — 2nd Monday and 4th Thursday — with interested parents, educators, and community members to share the need and generate energy for realizing the vision of equitable, connected, and responsive free, full-day learning environments in Portland, Maine. Share your story and hear others.
Join us, and bring your friends, teachers, children — all are welcome. Any change initiatives need to be grounded in collaboration and community, so let’s use our collective wisdom and energy to shift the system together. Our state-level education leaders have a “whole child” philosophy, which is an integral part of a re-enlivening. But the work is nowhere near done, and they can’t do it alone. And, there is much good happening in Portland schools now and behind the scenes with truly inspired curriculum leaders. Yet without activated community support for a deep shift in the priorities for, and methods used in, school, we risk simply making what we have now just a bit better for some students. School can be the place children and youth WANT to be.
Fill out our contact form to let us know you are coming, and we will send you a zoom link. (OR SEE LINK ABOVE)
Themes we will explore are:
- What is equitable education, and what does it look like?
- What’s going right? Where are examples of what we need to grow?
- How can learning be humanized for children and teachers?
- How can learning environments INCREASE mental health and happiness while also preparing children for the future?
- What is an Innovation School, and how do they work in Maine?
- Who else needs to be in the room?
- What are effective systems change models we can use to make change right now?