Building a Democratic School or Non-Profit: School Design Workshop
EDU A320
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Description
*Lottery-based Enrollment* Boston's pilot school initiative, begun in 1994, was in the forefront of a national movement to create small, innovative learning communities as alternatives to traditional ways of organizing public education systems. This course, taught by the founding headmaster of one of Boston's most successful pilot schools (the Boston Arts Academy), examines a wide range of issues related to the philosophy, planning, governance, and sustenance of nontraditional public schools, including charter schools or non-profit organizations. The course is intended for students with significant experience as teachers or administrators and for those who wish to become school leaders, school or nonprofit designers or program or policy designers. Students will be expected to reflect on their own experience as material for analysis in written assignments and class discussions. All students will design a school or a nonprofit. The class will operate as a studio workshop as much as possible. Although the readings primarily focus on US based schools, designers from outside of the US are encouraged to enroll.
Enrollment is limited. Instructions for enrollment will be posted on the course website. Due to the nature of this course, it is strongly preferred that students take it SAT/NCR.
Class Notes
Non-HGSE Harvard students cross registering into Lottery-based Enrollment courses must email registrar@gse.harvard.edu to request to be added to the lottery event. Non-Harvard students are not eligible to enter the course lottery. Please see this page of the Office of the Registrar website for more information.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
