here the story..- 2 schools became one on saturday in Copenhagen

[Merav Yanai]

Toke,
Your story opened for me a space to think differently about a project
which I deal with that time: Building a school which is going to
cooperate with an existing one. We have a lot of differentiations:
different culture, generations etc.
Maybe to open a space will be the right answer for that....
Thanks a lot
merav

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that was the appetizer.....

here the story..

2 school in central copenhagen have existed for 2 generations - they are
next door to each other - but has never cooperated and has developed 2
different cultures - now some courageous politicians finally decided
that they must become one school...

So we used open space for that ... 6 1/2 hour on a saturday
- 110 people showed up from both  schools - 15 pupils many from the
pupils councils, 60 teachers, and 35 parents.....

The kindergarden classes had made large drawings on how they saw the new
school - this adorned the 2 sport halls that was the frame of the
process... we checked into the days with the band from 5 grade playing
"oye como va" - Santana song - then we team palyed with a tennis ball
game - with much laugther and innovation
- and then opening space with 2 rounds and a medicin wheel council in
the end.

They realized they not only could but that they enjoyed working
together....

the new school community was  created...and now they know they can do
together...

they were truely surprised

it is such a pleasure and necessity to involve the children in creating
their own future learning environments...

many greetings

- toke


søndag 22. feb 2004 kl. 06:12 skrev Harrison Owen:

> Love the pictures, but tell us more about the schools and what
> happened!
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> Harrison
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> Hi friends
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> 2 schools became one on saturday in Copenhagen
>
> the space is on
>
> and people want to do it themselves
>
> love
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> - toke
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