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Host School Wanted for QuixotiCon

Every school must meet the needs of all the children they serve, right? Let’s gather your local community of educators from all types of schools, mainstream to alternative, around a common understanding of what it means to meet student’s needs. Help create a local professional community built on recognizing that nurturing children is the only true foundation for educating them, regardless of how schools are run. The duty of care that every professional educator owes to each child, both morally and legally, is persistently undermined when schools maintain policies that restrict the agency of teachers and students. It is time to get teachers (and their fans) together on this issue.

A Series of Public Events

  • Thu. 7-9:30PM- Free - Calming the Anxious Generation: Reconciling Teacher Professionalism with Children’s Playfulness presented by award-winning author Don Berg  
  • Fri. 7-10PM- $10-20 workshop- Reassessing K-12: A Moral Inquiry Co-facilitated by Don Berg & staff members from the host school 
  • Sat. 8A-3P - Free - Qu¿xotiCon- An EdCamp-Style Unconference for Educators
  • 2-3 hours per week for 8-9 weeks- $50-100 - Defense Against the Dark Arts: How to distinguish education from indoctrination - Co-facilitated by Don Berg & staff members from the host school

Qu¿xotiCon is an EdCamp-style in-person unconference for educators who recognize that nurturing children is the only true foundation for educating them. It is a gathering of reform-friendly folks from every corner of the education “industry” who want to learn more about fighting the cultural disease that undermines the agency of teachers and children alike. 

Why is it called “Qu¿xotiCon?” 

Calling this convening “Qu¿xotiCon” is a recognition that systemic K-12 school reform is currently shrouded in an illusion of impossibility, but our moral duty to the children in our care calls us to destroy that illusion. 

Systemic reform might seem like an exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic, and impractical goal, in a word “quixotic.” After deep study and reflection I, Don Berg, have come to see the persistent failures of school reform as the result of a cultural infection which is the focus of my book The Agentic Schools Manifesto. Join me in embracing Qu¿xotic as a rallying cry for organizing educators across the differences in our schools to fight the infection. The first blow to strike in our fight is to build a professional consensus on the proper role of nurturing children in K-12 education. 

EdCamp/ Unconference Organizing Resources: 

EdCamp Organizing Manual 

Eptura Unconference Hosting Guide

Medium Article about Running an Unconference


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