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Rights and Responsibilities for JP/The Global Cafe
- School policies should consider individual circumstances by providing systems of support
- Examples: Breakfast Club in the Global Cafe - recognizes that some students come to school needing food
- School decisions are made based on considering students’ cultures
- Providing safe spaces for students to practice their culture i.e. Smudging in the Global Cafe
- Attendance policies should be supportive rather than punitive and degrading
- Examples: instead of suspensions and expulsions, restorative justice, circles, networks of support
- School clubs and groups should offer specialized support to individuals in specific areas they need support in
- Examples: GSA, Breakfast Club, Thursday morning smudging ceremonies, counselling, STAR Program, Social Justice Club, Alternative Learning Opportunity Days
- Important to get feedback from students: what’s working, what’s not
- Schools should create networks of collaboration between other schools and the greater community to promote collective action
- Examples: spreading ideas, sharing knowledge (school conferences, focus groups)
- School policy should be student-centred
- Opportunities for Alternative Learning, and for it to be valued in school
- Alternative Learning Opportunity Days (ALO’s) serve to spread communication between teachers and students; shared leadership, courses based on student interest
Rights and Responsibilities
- Responsibility to provide aid - foreign and local, Poverty here, instead of over there, Treaty rights
- Right to communication: globally and in your country, spreading knowledge, sharing ideas, being able to do so freely
- Right to be involved in society and the responsibility to make a difference: being able to be an active citizen, right to actively protest, actively make a difference, right not a privilege
- Right for freedom of choice: choose what you stand for, expressing who you are (LGBTQ)
- Right for individuality in education: being supportive and understanding of individual circumstances, student-centred, empowerment, whole-person
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I can see you building the local-global connections in many of these ideas :). I'd be interested to hear more about this. I'd also love to hear more about how you are balancing individual rights and responsibilities with collective and/or group-based rights. Also, as you continue to work on these, I wonder if you see any possible tensions to negotiate that could come up in applying these rights and responsibilities. Great work!
Karen Pashby
Mar 3, 2015