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Liam wrote a new post, Roots Mastery Board, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 6 years, 6 months ago

I had this idea for a Roots Mastery Board, a tool for facilitators to use to study their implementation of the four roots at their ALC.

We often talk about how everything we do comes from the […]

Liam replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Just threw this post together very quickly based on an idea I had.
Please let me know what you think – especially if you try it at your ALC!
Liam replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Oh – just realized ‘the soil is trust’ isn’t on there. How should that be added to the board?
Tomis replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Love this, Liam! I think it helps make the tools, practices, and activity of the community visibly mapped back to the roots really effectively. It’s also just a great way to see how well we are doing with these community practices and always draw them back to the “why”, which is super important.
- Liam replied 6 years, 6 months ago
  
  Totally! I hope so, anyway.
  
  Do you think Mosaic would be into trying it?
  I’m just curious to see how it would play out.
  @nancy @jesslm @melissamulligan @charlotte
Drew replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Very cool! I love this as a facilitator tool. I think you should have the trust bit on there.

Diagrams are great too!
artbrock replied 6 years, 6 months ago

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 Council) in a place such that everyone could choose to come.

I think they’ve identified their model with their tools, rules, and processes, rather than what those were rooted in, and now to embrace new tools, it’s like they’re giving up what their whole school was about. Yet, they have to change it, but they haven’t fully integrated that and don’t know how to if it feels like it IS their model.

So… that’s another conversation for us to have out here.
- Liam replied 6 years, 6 months ago
  
  Yeah it can get easy to get tangled up in that kind of thing. I imagine it would be helpful to see all your tools and processes laid out and to see how they relate to the ‘broader mission’.
Melissa replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Liam, I would personally be up for trying this at Mosaic.

Rochelle wrote a new post, ALC Mosaic: Week 1, on the site Blog Time! 6 years, 6 months ago

I had a great time at Mosaic during the first week of school this year.

I felt extremely lucky to be able to step in and out of the school this week while living & working in Charlotte.

The staff came in a […]

Natalie replied 6 years, 6 months ago

Hi Rochelle, Nice blog.I am happy that you will be in Charlotte. Sincerely, Alex.

Liam wrote a new post, Facil-Prac Board Makeover, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 6 years, 8 months ago

Went over the Facil-Prac Call Board today and did some cleanup.
Gone Forever
Saw some really old cards that have been sitting on the board since back when all ALC Network things happened on that board. Some […]

Rochelle replied 6 years, 8 months ago

Thank you Liam!
Drew replied 6 years, 7 months ago

This is so good and well documented! I love it!

Liam wrote a new post, ALF Weekend Spring 2016, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 6 years, 10 months ago

This is a short post about participant’s reflections on ALF Weekend Spring 2016
Projects
You can see a full list of the cool projects we worked on here in the ALF Weekend Spring 2016 Notes […]

Liam wrote a new post, Agile Unschooling Reflections, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 7 years ago

Endor and its home-base Open Space AVL spent all of fall 2015 in limbo transitioning between locations, so, we experimented with an online-ALC, Agile Unschooling to keep things going. I called it Agile […]

Liam wrote a new post, Feeling Accomplished, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 7 years, 3 months ago

This week I really didn’t get all that much work done, but I did the work that I did with other people. On Monday I met with @rochellehudson to work on some Endor stuff, and on Tuesday @drew came to visit and we […]

Liam wrote a new post, Working With Other People, on the site Liam's ALF Blog 7 years, 3 months ago

Since Open Space AVL, the co-working space that Endor had been based in last spring (and will again be based in when it reopens next month), closed this summer, I’ve been mostly working alone at home.

This […]

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