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Hope Wilder is the founder of Pathfinder Community School, which was a self-directed learning community for ages 5-14 that operated democratically including students using sociocracy (a process for collective decision making). She is currently a sociocracy consultant and trainer, and the Schools and Sociocracy Program Manager at Sociocracy for All.
Hope is also the author of Let's Decide Together!, a workbook for collaborative decision-making with children. This is the fantastic book that we’re speaking about in this ERRR episode. I can’t wait for this episode to hit the airwaves because it contains a lot of fantastic insights around how to practically involve young people in decision making both in school, in the home, and really anywhere. It also contains ideas for running better meetings in any context!
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Links/resources mentioned in the show
- Where can people go to learn more about Sociocracy?
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- Circle structures: online free resource as an addendum: https://sociocracyforall.org/lets-decide-together-2021
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- More resources for learning about sociocracy in-depth are listed in Appendix 4: Additional Resources (page 94).
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- Build sociocracy in your neighbourhood with the book, Hello, Neighbourocracy
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- Game: Keep the Balance – https://keepthebalance.games/
- What are your three favourite books on education? (happy to hear about some non-education books too that you really like)
- Free to Learn by Peter Gray
- It’s Our School, It’s Our Time by Geraldine Rowe
- Conscious Discipline by Becky Bailey
- What advice would you give your first-year teacher self?
- Listen to your internal boundaries, put self-care first so you don’t burn out.
- What are you currently excited about?
- Provisional World Children’s Parliament
- Any last calls to action or things that you’d like listeners to go away today and do?
- From Lenore Skenazy’s Let Grow Project: If you work or live with children, decide together with them one decision you usually make that you could let them make instead. https://letgrow.org/program/the-let-grow-project/
- Also see Ollie's two books, Cognitive Load Theory in Action, and Tools for Teachers. Signed copies available here.
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