Building a New Reality

More Voice. More Choice. More Responsibility.

Ted Wachtel

Family Group Conference

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In the FGC, they organized a structured schedule of visitation and family support at critical hours of the day that ensured the wellbeing of her children.

The Learning System

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But the learning system would allow also more options than “which school?” Significantly, a learning system would offer more opportunities to “learn by doing.”

IIRP Graduate School

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Using a “restorative practices” modality, students are empowered to share their own wealth of experience with the professor and with each other, and that enriches everyone’s learning, especially when students participate from around the world.

Safer Saner Schools

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The challenge is to get students to do the right thing when no one is watching. This behavior will then extend into adult life.

Community Processing

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To ensure that the negative spiral of public opinion could be broken, she insisted on a “bottom-up” process, so that all stakeholders were directly involved, in a way that allowed everyone to participate in and to observe the process.

Deliberative Polling

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While it is unlikely that we will choose our legislatures by lottery anytime in the foreseeable future, greater use of Deliberative Polling can move governance toward true representation.

The Lottocratic Alternative

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Guerrero’s single-issue legislature offers another way that states and nations can experiment with an alternative to elected legislatures and try innovative variations, using single-issue legislatures for certain issues, without changing everything.

Compulsory Education

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Whichever subject content or teaching method or evaluation tool I chose, I still faced the same dilemma: I could not get kids who didn’t want to learn something to learn it.