Agile Learning Centers

Welcome, Erin! Good to have you as part of the community!

It’s great to see some words of hope amidst so many people struggling with disbelief, denial, fear, anger, and anxiousness.

I’m glad you’ve found a path to navigate toward the kinds of change you want to see in the world regardless of who is elected to sit in some weird oval-shaped office. 😛

-art

It’s fun for me to see you geeking out on all this open source stuff. And I think it’s super powerful that you have been using a manually configured version of Linux. The stuff you learn about how the layers of computing actually work, and how they can be customized will probably improve your tech skills and even programming in the future.…[Read more]

Yeah… I’m out in Vancouver right now, and I think one of the things the WH staff is struggling with in embracing new tools, is knowing the roots of their educational model. I think they’ve identified as Dem School / Dem process, and now with kids scattered across different campuses every day, they can’t even call a Democratic Meeting (School…[Read more]

Hey @tomis, Somehow I missed this post when you wrote it. It’s really great, and we should steal some of it’s content as a guide for new ALCs understanding/navigating the network membranes.

Thanks Timo! Very clearly described.

I’m glad to hear the proposed format of splitting change-up is working out. I also like the way you all have integrated visiting week feedback into that structure.

The one thing I’m not clear on from your description is… At which meeting do stickies get to be advanced to the next column beyond implementation?

Yay! I love the organic / cellular metaphor and way of thinking of it.

It does seem true to the nature of the flows. The network (nucleus) isn’t trying to control or micromanage the schools or their activities, but we are trying to hold a general sense of coherence of vision/purpose while facilitating flows of insight, resources, communication…[Read more]

Oh… and what about alumni? Or ex-parents / ex-students / ex-staff especially of ex-ALCs. I’m thinking of Will and Eric Harris-Braun as an example of people who seem like they should be on this map of our community in some way even though they’re not connected to a running ALC at the moment.

We also may reach a point of wanting to visualize…[Read more]

This is a great visualization! Now we just need to be able to translate this into something that can keep up to date with this rapidly changing landscape! 😛

What about an ALF who is also a parent? It might be worth popping some brown rhomboid corners out from behind a purple circle. I think it would be good to show that parents are not only on…[Read more]