This year, Colorado will receive 17.9 million dollars for Race To The Top initiatives. [teacher evaluation system, math and science.] If one takes time to look at the details of the race, it’s about getting better at taking tests on such things as rationalizing a denominator.
Our county is sixth in the nation in suicide rate. Once every nine days someone takes their life. The measure we are currently using toward success, the actions we are currently using to fix problems, even to determine which problems are problems, aren’t boding us well.
kids dreaming - take a listen to last video
Oscar Wilde writes, Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We are working on why that is so. We are seeking to set people free.
let's just try a few million toward an experiment, four years in the making, crafted by kids... all about letting them do the thing they can't not do.
let's just see.
let's see how it might change a town, their economics, their health, their empty buildings, their homeless, their suicide rate....
their people.
march 2012:
march 2012 to march 2013:
march 2013:
Evidence of the first two years (be you.) of our research is shared via PBS special. Sierra, a full time lab student, shares her story. The potential when she is freed up to pick her own mentors/interest, is given space to be, and finds soul peace, finds her art.
march 2012 to march 2013:
Intermittent soulbiographies of self-reflection (detox). Sharing what happens as a person takes time to talk about things that matter. We believe this is the essence of what keeps people alive and mindful. We think this will not only be evidence, but also a model for others to start detoxing, if they are so inclined. This is the focus of our why, you free people up by turning standardized testing into ongoing self-assessing.
Also, ongoing research of detox with CSU, and students doing detox globally at Youth Voices.
march 2013:
Evidence of year three (be us.) of our research is shared via PBS(?), Deb Roy style (time lapse of video documentation over the year). Loveland, a city in Colorado, shares their story. The potential when people are freed up to pick their own communities of practice, as they practice the art of conversation, of listening. As they start sharing spaces, and find their peace, find their collective art.
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