[OSList] Current Success with OST in K-12?

[Dr. Christian Kemper]

Just to add, Jake, that so called Democratic Schools around the globe 
work more or less like an everyday open space: bulletin board in the 
morning and everything self organized.

The head organization of this schools in Europe is eudec: 
https://www.eudec.org/

Blessings

Christian



Dr. Christian Kemper | inbetweener | Prinz-Albert-Straße 73 | D-53113 Bonn |
M. +49 . 174 . 921 66 11 | T. +49 . 228 . 24 36 70 00 | 
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Am 12.06.19 um 16:43 schrieb Michael M Pannwitz via OSList:
> Dear Jake,
> 
> I do not have experience with open space being employed in classrooms.
> 
> I do have a lot of memories of open space events that I facilitated in 
> after school Kindergarten (6 to 11 year old kids), elementary school (in 
> Berlin thats grade 1 through 6), high school (grade 7 to 13), vocational 
> training schools (16 through 18 years old)... and in subsystems of these 
> organisations (such as student representatives in highschool) and larger 
> systems (project exchanges between schools from throughout Germany that 
> attempted to have "Democratic Schools" (these were os events for 
> professionals from schools and government departments) or "Schools 
> without Racism"(this was for 50 elementary schools with 3 students from 
> each school... a very joyous event with 150 kids that none of the 
> educators watching it could believe).
> 
> Among those taking part in these various os events there was recurring 
> interest of somehow working with os in the classroom. But I have no 
> stories on what actually happend.
> It seemed to me  that it would require some twisted ost approach (see 
> the current discussion on this list).
> However, I remember that the student body representatives in one 
> highschool (Beethoven Oberschule in Berlin-Steglitz) decided to use ost 
> for their weekly meetings. They selforganised  it and were overwhelmed 
> by the productive fun they had.
> Anna Carolina Türk (see World Map) was a student at Beethoven at that 
> time and active in the student body... she could tell you a lot more on 
> this story from her own experience. I will cc to her.
> 
> Checking on Chris Weaver of Evergreen Community Charter School in 
> Asheville, NC (Birgitt pointed to his work) I also ran into a Book 
> "Redesigning America's Schools, a systems approach to improvement" with 
> a number of references to OST in schools, but not in classrooms. It 
> seemed to me that Chris also wrote on this topic, could not find a 
> reference, though.
> 
> I have heard of schools employing ost as a basic approach in their 
> schools (in Israel) but have no sources. Maybe Tova would know about 
> this (see Tova Averbuch in the World Map). I cc this to her.
> 
> I have also heard of using ost in graduate programmes where students and 
> everyone else involved designed and implemented and ran graduate 
> programmes (one University in Seattle if I remember correctly, Ann 
> Stadler and Peggy Holman are likely to know more).
> 
> Even though I no longer work as a facilitator, I would love to hear of 
> ost in the classroom with its challenges (non-voluntary attendance, 
> teacher as facilitator, fairly homogeneous groups...).
> 
> Oh yes, there are a number of facilitator  colleagues in Germany with 
> experience in school settings... for instance Christian Kemper in Bonn.
> 
> On reading through our email exchange (Chris and I) I found these notes 
> from December 2015:
> 
> "I am on a writing retreat, close to publishing a book of a new school 
> design, in which OST figures prominently.  Back to work!k"
> 
> and a little bit later, in January 2016, after I asked him to be put on 
> the list of buyers:
> 
> " I'd be honored to share my work with you as soon as it is in a 
> finished-ENOUGH form, which is maybe only a few short weeks away.  I am 
> most interested to hear if the school design I propose, and the 
> philosophy underlying it, makes sense to you, is useful, and suggests a 
> potential German-language audience."
> 
> And a few days after that:
> 
> " the book deals some with the physical space, but that is only a very 
> small part.  the word "design" in the title connotes the design of 
> process and structures of interaction.  a lot of the book is devoted to 
> more than 50 principles and the educational philosophy behind them....i 
> need to keep in mind harrison's mantra about "one less thing"!
> 
> I wonder what happened to this project.
> 
> In "About the author" of his book "The Heart of the Canoe..."
> it says: "Chris is the author of "Living School Design & Practice" (to 
> be published early in 2017, which shares a comprehensive design for a 
> new kind of school."
> 
> Anybody seen this book?
> 
> Greetings from Berlin
> mmp
> 
> 
> Checking for Books by Chris I found
> Am 12.06.2019 um 01:12 schrieb Jake Yeager via OSList:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> My wife is a journalist who writes about education, and she is curious 
>> if anyone is currently having success employing Open Space in K-12 
>> classrooms.
>>
>> Please let me know if you are and would be willing to speak with her.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> All the best,
>> Jake
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