Tag: education

Description Youth Power Coalition is youth leaders and adult allies advocating for young people to have decision-making power in all spaces where decisions impacting young people are made from nonprofit boards to city hall. We’re advocating for lowering the voting age to 16, training both young people and adults in intergenerational governance, and creating an…

Description What drives meAs the first sociocratic school, we are now looking back on 8 years of experience. The FRISCH school is organized completely sociocratic with everyone who is involved: teachers, parents, students. Since its foundation, many alternative schools and initiatives have followed our example; one could even say there’s a surge of people who…

Description Do you remember the last time you participated in a democratic election? What did you feel when you put down your vote? Have you been elected, or was someone elected for whom you didn’t vote? The open nomination, a sociocratic principle, is a gift to the world! It creates a balance to the experiences…

Description Join us to hear about our school, and discuss our experiences of education. The New School is an alternative non-fee-paying school in London. We are driven by giving every student a powerful sense of agency – the will and the ability to positively influence their own lives and the world around them. Education at…

Description The introduction of sociocracy into schools is in some ways a continuation of the democratic school movement, in which challenging the concept of a compulsory curriculum has always been a central facet. As soon as you propose that the pupils themselves should be a part of decision-making at their school, you realize how much…

Description As Scotland looks to incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into law, we at the University of Highlands and Islands share Sociocracy as a form of true participation with our Childhood Practice and Health and Social Care students. Students are studying high school-level courses and often feel like they do…

Description The Integrale Tagesschule Winterthur is an alternative secondary school located in Winterthur, Switzerland. In this presentation, we will focus on specific steps that enabled ITW to include all people involved in a purpose-driven school development process. Presentation slides Presenter Bio Ellen Even is living with her husband and twins in Zurich, CH. She works at…

Description In this session I will share the case study of a free Montessori school, the first in Austria, where sociocracy has been fully implemented for three years now. We have gained a lot of experience since we started to build the circular structure in 2015 and gradually integrated all involved, which I am happy…

Description We started the first democratic school in France in 2014, La Croisée des Chemins. The project was run with sociocracy from the beginning until the school was closed in 2020. We would like to share what we learned from the challenges of shared power with other adults involved in an alternative education initiative. Presentation…

Description We will present the case about using rubrics to improve learning sociocracy in teams and organizations, and we will discuss creating a collaborative effort to share experiences and tools for the future. We will share some examples of rubrics that can be used and will share different ways to work with this tool. Presenter…