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Next Steps as a Community of Resistance

“One needs a community of resistance.”

“One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.”

—bell hooks

We have a lot of work to do in the USA (and everywhere) to combat what’s coming. Care systems will be attacked. We must build a counterculture of care. Care work makes all other work possible.

We still have access to all our innate collaborative capabilities. If we care to listen to our guts, hearts, and minds, we can (re)learn everything we need for co-creating ecologies of care beyond the human.

The ripples of collaborative niche construction and intersectional solidarity are spreading. More and more small cosmo-local bands of marginalised people are coming together to catalyse intersectional solidarity.

Healing – Resisting internalised ableism | Autistic Collaboration

Next Steps

Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks:

• Raise funds.
  • Raise money to direct into the communities we serve.
• Defend public education.
  • Continue creating why sheets to assist students, parents, and teachers with their advocacy.
  • Run for school board. We have folks contemplating running for election to their local school boards.
  • Go to school board meetings. Be a presence.
  • Tell the story: Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.
• Advance progressive education.
  • Work with Human Restoration Project, PINE, EALA, and others to advance progressive education.
  • Advocate for Cavendish Space and Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
  • Tell the story: We’re raising whole children, not Frankenstein children.
  • Tell the story: Henry Cavendish, Xerox PARC, and Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes.
• Support creators.
  • Grow our creator grants and bring more creators into our Discord community.
  • We will need art and competency networks more than ever.
• Build community.
  • Bring people into our Discord community.
  • Do online events to bring us together and share knowledge.
  • Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.
  • Grow the rhizome by connecting with other cosmo-local bands of marginalized people.
  • We will support each other. We will build our own ecologies of care and our own competency networks. We will build communities and network rhizomatically.
• Participate in research.
  • Participatory research that aligns with community priorities and values gives us advocacy ammunition to fight back against regressive practices. Participate in studies.
• Tell stories.
  • Help build a progressive storytelling ecosystem to offer an alternative to the right-wing ecosystem.
  • “The pro-democracy movement needs to build its own funnel, now. It cannot and should not be a mirror image of the right’s funnel. It should be grounded in truth, not lies, and generosity, not closedness. But it needs to be a total media ecology that can meet people at any level of annoyance, curiosity, irritation, gripe, doubt, with any question — and move them toward a more humane and magnanimous view of the world.” —Anand Giridharadas
  • Name the systems of power.
  • Defuse resentment.
• Increase our impact.
  • Consult our Impact page. Consider the things we measure. How can we make those numbers go up?

Doing Damns the Darkness

Doing good things, and the right time, can have a remarkable effect. “Doing Damns the Darkness,” for me is more than a phrase on this blog, it’s a reminder to me that I can take action against anxieties and worries and ‘things that go bump in the day’.

Of Battered Aspect: Doing Damns The Darkness

#care #community #education #nicheConstruction #participatoryResearch #power #progressive #progressiveEducation #resentment #resistance #rhizome #rhizomes #storytelling

Part 1 of my learning in public thoughts about teaching CS in a progressive environment: https://bob-irving.com/mid-year-musings-cs-in-progressive-ed-pt-1/
@edutooters #progressiveeducation #computerscience #learninginpublic #learning

Did you forget to register for next week's @humrespro Conference to #RestoreHumanity? No worries! There's still time. Visit https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference and join us in reimagining schools and public education for a better future. #ctrh2023 #education #EduTooter #teaching #progressiveeducation #systemschange 📚🌟🌎

This video from Holistic Think Tank (partners of @humrespro) is a beautiful paean to humanistic learning and the need to #RestoreHumanity to schools around the world. Trust me—you want to invest 21 minutes in watching this. 🧡 🚀 #Education #Teaching #ProgressiveEducation #EduToot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VS5ZB6cg6w

NEW: Dr. Amber Strong Makaiau writes on the value of labeling education as "progressive education", tracing its history, impact, and legacy. #restorehumanity #edchat #progressiveeducation

https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/progressive-with-a-capital-p

Our friends at @humrespro suggest that their community read these four "fundamental texts of progressive pedagogy" to understand their philosophy.

These are great recommendations that also help understand our philosophy at Stimpunks.

https://stimpunks.org/2022/12/07/fundamental-texts-of-progressive-pedagogy/

#education #pedagogy #ProgressiveEducation #HumanCenteredEducation

👋🏻 I'm Skylar (he/him). I grew up in New Orleans and moved to Madison, Wisconsin for graduate school in #Geology before changing tracks and becoming a middle/high school #Teacher.

In the #Education realm, I'm particularly passionate about #OutdoorLearning, #ProgressiveEducation, and #StudentVoice. I currently teach at Koshkonong Trails School, a small, public charter school with an environmental and agricultural focus; serve on the boards for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education and Human Restoration Project (@humrespro); and lead the Wisconsin Teacher-Powered Schools Network.

I like to write about teaching, and take nature photos, which I post to Medium and Flickr, respectively. I'm particularly fond of rocks and lichen.

I was heavily invested in the bird network before the billionaire took over, but I deleted my account and am learning how to Mastodon. c.im seemed like a friendly server that wasn't as absurdly large as mastodon.social, which I initially joined.

I'm excited to have a new online community to explore, while also mourning the one I've left behind. #Introduction #TwitterMigration