Green ALF - European Edition (Summer 2022)
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dates:
2nd - 8th July 2022 |
daily schedule:
9 am - 4 pm |
location: Green School,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
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Join us for 7 days of learning, unlearning and relearning:
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Our Green kids will be there to learn with you
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Join us in Agile Learning Facilitator training programme
"Education is the sum of everything a person learns that enables that person to live a satisfying and meaningful life. Self-Directed Education is education that derives from the self-chosen activities and life experiences of the person becoming educated, whether or not those activities were chosen deliberately for the purpose of education." The Alliance of Self-Directed Education.
In Agile Learning Centers, the facilitators make sure that the children and youth have all the optimal conditions to learn freely, with intention, playfulness, planfulness, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and agility.
Take a look at what is Self-Directed Education (SDE), what is the Agile Learning model and how learning in nature can have amazing benefits for people. If you intend to change the way you are involved in education - as an educator: teacher, trainer, professor, youth worker, animator, facilitator, parent, join us in this Self-Directed endeavour, in Cluj-Napoca, early July.
Our programme is structured in 2 parts:
1) "Overview" - you have the opportunity to discover the SDE values, the foundations and main tools of Agile Learning;
2) "Expansion" - going deeper into the Self-Directed Education by practicing it in a week of agile education: mixed-age group of children spending their week with Green School, parents of SDE kids sharing their experience with anyone interested, Green School ALFs sharing some of their experiences, the facilitators for this event and YOU - the people interested in Agile Learning.
In Agile Learning Centers, the facilitators make sure that the children and youth have all the optimal conditions to learn freely, with intention, playfulness, planfulness, curiosity, creativity, critical thinking and agility.
Take a look at what is Self-Directed Education (SDE), what is the Agile Learning model and how learning in nature can have amazing benefits for people. If you intend to change the way you are involved in education - as an educator: teacher, trainer, professor, youth worker, animator, facilitator, parent, join us in this Self-Directed endeavour, in Cluj-Napoca, early July.
Our programme is structured in 2 parts:
1) "Overview" - you have the opportunity to discover the SDE values, the foundations and main tools of Agile Learning;
2) "Expansion" - going deeper into the Self-Directed Education by practicing it in a week of agile education: mixed-age group of children spending their week with Green School, parents of SDE kids sharing their experience with anyone interested, Green School ALFs sharing some of their experiences, the facilitators for this event and YOU - the people interested in Agile Learning.
Possibilities
At Green School we learn the Self-Directed way, including at the events for adults. This means we are not designing a great training script that is supposed to "fit all", but we are creating learning spaces for you to be able to plan, discover, understand, create, practice, question, argue, justify, develop, reflect, share.
Our facilitators who are making the offerings are all trained in Agile Learning and are coming from different organisations, with different perspectives.
Among the offerings you can find:
When thinking what you can offer as experiences, consider that we are going to use the Green School spaces: indoor (training room, living room, kitchen) and outdoor (gazebo, hammock area, the hill) and surroundings: the Someș river is 4 minutes away and the forest 20-25 minutes away - walking distances.
You can also join the offerings of 4 of the Green School facilitators, a group of parents and a group of Green School children.
In Green ALF we will host learners of different ages (children, youth and adults), different learning styles, different personalities, different genders, different religions, different political views. Please consider that Green School is a safe space for people who can be whomever they want to be. We are a discrimination free and a consent-based, safe culture.
Our facilitators who are making the offerings are all trained in Agile Learning and are coming from different organisations, with different perspectives.
Among the offerings you can find:
- Agile Learning - the tree model,
- Agile Learning tools and instruments,
- Self-Directed Educational philosophies,
- flying squad - place-based education & education in public,
- circle of security and attachment theories,
- forest education,
- how to start an Agile Learning Group,
- how to start an Agile Learning Centre,
- communication and public relations in a new ALC,
- financial aspects of a start-up group,
- woodcrafting,
- junk/ free play,
- roleplaying,
- biomimicry and others.
When thinking what you can offer as experiences, consider that we are going to use the Green School spaces: indoor (training room, living room, kitchen) and outdoor (gazebo, hammock area, the hill) and surroundings: the Someș river is 4 minutes away and the forest 20-25 minutes away - walking distances.
You can also join the offerings of 4 of the Green School facilitators, a group of parents and a group of Green School children.
In Green ALF we will host learners of different ages (children, youth and adults), different learning styles, different personalities, different genders, different religions, different political views. Please consider that Green School is a safe space for people who can be whomever they want to be. We are a discrimination free and a consent-based, safe culture.
The training programme:
Overview - foundations training course (2 days)
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dates: 2nd - 3rd July 2022
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schedule: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
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price: 130 euro
stand alone course |
Two days of possibilities to meet people from around the world and discover the values of Self-Directed Education and the foundations of Agile Learning with them. We will meet every morning at 9.00, have a light breakfast together and set intentions for the day. You can create or join different offerings in order to have a good day and to learn according to your own intentions. At the end of the day we reflect on our processes and we express final thoughts for the experiences. Our facilitators, children and 3 of the Green School facilitators will make their offerings around the topics: education, learning, schooling, pedagogy, andragogy, Self-Directed Education, Agile Learning, Agile Learning methodology and tools, forest education, green schooling, EQ games.
You can participate in Green ALF Overview without participating in the Expansion training, but you cannot join the Expansion training without the Overview.
You can participate in Green ALF Overview without participating in the Expansion training, but you cannot join the Expansion training without the Overview.
Expansion - training course (+5 days)
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dates: 4th - 8th July 2022
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schedule: 9.00 am - 4.00 pm
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price: 450euro
includes the ”Overview” training |
After participating in "Overview" you can go deeper into understanding Agile Learning philosophy, experiencing a school week, within the cycle: intention, creation, reflecting and sharing.
We go deeper into understanding Self-Directed Education, Agile Learning, educational tools and methods that children, youth and adults can be interested in and learn from, by themselves or with others (with or without facilitators).
Reminder: You can participate in Green ALF Overview without participating in the Expansion training, but you cannot join the Expansion training without the Overview.
We go deeper into understanding Self-Directed Education, Agile Learning, educational tools and methods that children, youth and adults can be interested in and learn from, by themselves or with others (with or without facilitators).
Reminder: You can participate in Green ALF Overview without participating in the Expansion training, but you cannot join the Expansion training without the Overview.
Facilitators
Alexander
Alexander Khost is a youth rights activist from New York City.
He has founded several projects focusing on providing youth with rare opportunities to self-manage, lead and delegate the decisions over their own lives. He most recently co-founded Flying Squads, a youth liberation and anti-oppression collective that believes in the abolition of divided spaces between young people and their community.Previously he co-founded and co-ran the junkyard playground, play:groundNYC and founded a democratic free school. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points, the book and magazine publisher for the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. He has three children of his own that all are raised in a trustful parenting, Self-Directed Education environment. He is a certified K-12 fine art teacher in New York State, holds an MFA from Parsons School of Design, the New School University, and a BA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He has taught internationally through various English as a second language programs. |
Luiza
For 6 years Luiza Apostu has been part of the Alternative University, a freedom-centered student learning community aimed at helping students take responsibility for their own learning process while developing a Self-Directed mindset. She has been an educator and curriculum architect for eight years and she has been working with children from 6 to 13 years old. Two years ago she was certified in Social Emotional Learning and Character Development at Rutgers University, US. In 2018 she decided to start a learning journey around the world in order to visit and learn from innovative and inspirational learning communities and schools, from London, to Spain, Netherlands, Mexico and many others. She believes that learning happens all the time and she wants to create a space that invites children to learn in their own way and rhythm, a place where they have a voice and take the responsibility for their learning. So 2 years ago she founded Rubik School - an agile and Self-Directed learning community based in Bucharest and Rubik Offline - the first Agile Learning community online for the kids from all over Romania. *Luiza will join us online |
Sonia
Sonia Bercuci co-founded Green School after gaining her PhD in Educational Sciences (2013) from University of Bucharest and University of Vienna. She started to study and research the value of nature-based education programmes in 2003 and, with time, became an advocate for Nature-Based Education and Self-Directed learning.
She participated in multiple international training events in non-formal and formal learning contexts and in 2018 she did her ALF Summer training in New York with NY ALC, after creating already Self-Directed learning contexts. In 2021 she returned to the US as a researcher studying ”sense of belonging and emotional security and wellbeing in SDE”, as a Research Scholar in University of Delaware. Sonia is an educational animator, trained in the French system (in Romania and in France), with extensive socio-educational animation experience, being specialised in theatre (shadow theatre and black light theatre) and animation for inclusion and anti-discrimination. Trained in psychodrama, Sonia is using her experience in creating learning spaces for children, youth and adults. |
Supporters of GREEN ALF training:
During our "Overview" and "Expansion" trainings some of the community members will make offerings in our shared kanban. You can talk with them in Ask Me Anything sessions and connect with their experiences.
The community members that will join us are ALFs in our kindergarten and school, parents of some Green School children and children learning in our organisation.
The community members that will join us are ALFs in our kindergarten and school, parents of some Green School children and children learning in our organisation.
Green School facilitators
Diane
School ALF
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Franciska
Kindergarten ALF
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Radu
Kindergarten ALF
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Green Families that will join us
Stanciu family
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Hârlav family
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Your financial contribution
If you decide to enrol, please complete the form below. After submitting the form you will be contacted by our colleague Nadia (nadia@green-school.ro).
The financial contribution is 130 euro for "Overview" (2 day training course) and 450 euro for the full experience, ”Overview” and "Expansion" (7 days training course). Payment options will be detailed in the confirmation message. Joining ”Expansion” without joining ”Overview” it is not possible.
Your financial contribution offers you:
If you are going to be accompanied by your child/ children, an additional fee of 10 euro/ day/ child is perceived for participation.
The financial contribution is 130 euro for "Overview" (2 day training course) and 450 euro for the full experience, ”Overview” and "Expansion" (7 days training course). Payment options will be detailed in the confirmation message. Joining ”Expansion” without joining ”Overview” it is not possible.
Your financial contribution offers you:
- participation in the training;
- plenty of materials to use in your creation & learning processes;
- office supplies needed in the process;
- light breakfast, lunch and coffee and tea;
- training course participant kit;
- bus & entry tickets for different learning environments for the "Expansion" training.
If you are going to be accompanied by your child/ children, an additional fee of 10 euro/ day/ child is perceived for participation.
Enrol
In order to enroll, follow the below steps:
1. Fill in the below form;
2. Read the email from Green School;
3. Make the payment
4. Receive the invitation & confirmation letter for the event.
1. Fill in the below form;
2. Read the email from Green School;
3. Make the payment
4. Receive the invitation & confirmation letter for the event.
How to get to Green School, in Cluj-Napoca
Green School is located in Grigorescu neighbourhood, Donath Street, nr. 146a, in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania.
You can arrive at Green School by:
bus:
bus station Radio Cluj/ Piața Grigorescu (3 minutes walking distance from the school):
If you are joining from abroad, consider:
car sharing: BlaBlaCar
train: CFR (Romanian Train Company), OEBB (Austrian Train Company) or MAV (Hungarian Train Company)
buses: Flixbus
airports: Cluj Avram Iancu International Airport (connected by bus). Other options: Târgu Mureș airport (2 hours away from Cluj-Napoca), Baia Mare airport (2 hours and 30 min away), Sibiu airport (3 hours away) or Bucharest airport (6 hours away by car/ 50 min away by plane).
You can arrive at Green School by:
bus:
bus station Radio Cluj/ Piața Grigorescu (3 minutes walking distance from the school):
- from Zorilor/ Mănăștur bus 43 or 43b
- from Mărăști/ City Centre bus 30
- from the train station (Gară) bus 27
- from Bd.-ul Muncii bus 26 or 26l
- from (P-ța) Mihai Viteazul bus 28 or 28b
- from (P-ța) 1 Mai bus 41
- use the bike lane from Donath street (connected with the bike lanes across the city)
If you are joining from abroad, consider:
car sharing: BlaBlaCar
train: CFR (Romanian Train Company), OEBB (Austrian Train Company) or MAV (Hungarian Train Company)
buses: Flixbus
airports: Cluj Avram Iancu International Airport (connected by bus). Other options: Târgu Mureș airport (2 hours away from Cluj-Napoca), Baia Mare airport (2 hours and 30 min away), Sibiu airport (3 hours away) or Bucharest airport (6 hours away by car/ 50 min away by plane).
Discover our community
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Green School is located in the city of Cluj-Napoca, in Cluj county. With a population of 325000, Cluj-Napoca is the most important city in Transylvania and the one of the largest cities in Romania, after the capital city, Bucharest. The city is located in the NV of the country, minutes away from Apuseni mountains and Someș plateau. With a beautiful botanical garden and several smaller inside the city, Cluj-Napoca is surrounded by forests, crossed by the Someș river and is home for Romanians, Hungarians (as the biggest minority), Germans (second largest minority of the city) and many foreigners that have chosen to live in Cluj.
Cluj-Napoca hosts 11 universities, including the largest and the highest ranked university in the country, "Babes-Bolyai" University. Many foreigners choose Cluj for their studies, not only for one semester or one year in a mobility program, but for all the length of a university program. Many of them decide to remain in the city after their studies and many other specialists move here for their careers. According to Urban Audit, a research project (2012), Cluj-Napoca is the friendliest city for foreign people in Europe. While in Cluj-Napoca, consider visiting:
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