InvitingStoriesandDiscussiononOpenSpaceinEducation

...an invitation for you to join us here in this online space on February 14-15 for a weekend of OS in education stories

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• EducationAndOpenSpace - a short article by Harrison Owen with more reference links added by Chris Macrae

• [OpenSpaceWithThirdGraders] - a short story from Ashley Cooper

• AssessmentinScottland - a story where we used Open Space to assess the educational system.

• WHATDoYouWanttoLearn? and HOW do you want to learn? Five open space events held in Scotland inviting 272 pupils, 93 teachers and 41 student teacher to respond to these question.

• OpenSpaceinManagementStudiesClassroom - a story using Open Space in Mumbai

• HowdoWeuseourEducationtohelpourcountry? - leadership at a Haitian school opened space with their school body.

• Experiment:DiscoveringAuthenticHarmony - A story of how teachers in Haiti invited their student body to address collectively difficult issues between girls and boys.

• WhatKindofEducationWillSaveLaGonave - using OS on island of La Gonave, Haiti to explore among community of Matenwa the type of education they need to survive.

• Using Open Space to MergeTwoSchools in Copenhagen

• GlobalChicago:YouthActionRacineStory - what a small group of youth can did in a year of ongoing open space meetings and events, initiated with MichaelHerman and sustained on their own passion and responsibility.

• GlobalChicago:PeoriaSchoolsStory - the future of education in peoria, june 2002, 300 people from throughout the school district met for three nights and drafted a working agenda for a system in some crisis.

• GlobalChicago:FairbanksPeacemakersConferenceAndPracticeWorkshop - youth/adult, conference/training, initial report and updates, organized by JulieSmith and facilitate by ChrisCorrigan, MichaelHerman and JudiRichardson?

• GlobalChicago:RiverTrailsSeventhGrade - what happens when 200 seventh graders dive into open space?

• [GlobalChicago:Imagine] - open space conference wiki for imagine chicago int'l conference, complete proceedings captured in a wiki website hosted by MichaelHerman

• [GlobalChicago:MontessoriRegionalConference] - american montessori society winter conference, 200+ in open space in florida, complete proceedings and some ongoing followup conversations captured in a wiki web hosted by MichaelHerman

• OSTUniversitiesBoardsTeacherFederations

• OSTLearningAtMaricopaDotEdu - Maricopa Community Colleges used OST 1997-1999 for a series of forums to help shape a new defintion and position published on "What is Learning?" [learning@maricopa.edu]

• SchoolsAlive! an initiative in Haiti bringing together in Open Space, teachers and others interested in improving the educational system

• PedagogyofLiberation - using open space in a college course at Shimer College, Waukegan, IL

• [Teaching Prospective Principals How To Build a Team]

• [Using Open Space for School Improvement]

• [using Open Space toward Building a Community Partnership for the Health, Safety, and Education of Our Children and Youth] in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

• [What's a good way to help our children learn to behave well?] Over 100 parents, children, and teachers convene for a day in Open Space at Matenwa Learning Center on the island of Lagonave, Haiti

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