School Revolt - Give Space Kids Build Kommunity (A Conversation with Hamilton Carter)

Can kids build and contribute to their community? The answer is yes, but only if they’re actually in their community. This half to one hour webinar will walk (snark) through the strategies we’ve had success with for getting kids independently out into their communities, and what’s happened as a result. The hurdles we encountered included both preparing kids to move around and engage on their own, as well as preparing the community to accept their presence. Our—the kids and their facilitators—strategy was to prepare young kids to get around their communities on their own using the local public transit system and walkways. Successful methods included ‘kite along’, ‘walk ahead’, ‘sit ahead’, and ‘bus/train ahead’. These methods resulted in the kids moving around independently in the community, building social networks that knit the adults in their lives together. They also resulted in the kids marching in two strikes, one with local hotel workers and another with the Oakland Teachers Unio