Agenda:
1.
Reflections
2.
Next Days
3.
Volunteers / Outreach
4.
Festival overview
5.
Space/September - saved for next meeting
6.
9-month anniversary of Occupy, in St. James? –
will invite Occupy Toronto to spend the day with us in Alexandra Park, and dedicate our social hour to talking about good Occupy memories
In Attendance: Dix, Salomeh, Roxy, Laura, Shirley, Roxy,
Mizel, Chris, Veronica, Li
Decisions:
1. This Sunday, July 8th, we will
actually have the skule wide discussion! Questions:
a. Ask Sunday classes if they feel strong
enough to move onto another day of the week and free up their timeslot
b. Need a class (4-week?) to teach people how
to teach – gage interest, needs, and availability
c. Surviving the Apocalypse Class – when and
interest?
2. We will put out a volunteer call-out on
Toronto.com
Actions before
Sunday:
1. Outreach: Friday at 1pm anyone who is free
will meet at the corner of Dundas and Bathurst (on the south east side,
Alexandra Park side) to do some outreach for a few hours. Salomeh is printing
off flyers, and will bring them to us around 3pm.
Reflections:
- Courses are going well, people are learning lots
- Human Rights Class has been covering the different
international human rights documents, and how to use human rights as a
framework for your activism
- We have a couple one-off workshops
- Toronto free skule really provides something more – I have
my degree – I think it’s a great and necessary alternative school
- I love that there’s different facilitation workshops
- There is a need for education reports – Salomeh is working
on a Youth Report, and Roxy is helping with the higher-education section –
other research groups are being de-funded
- Teaching economics is a very challenging thing in this
environment – creating a language between economics and social change; people
think economics is really boring, but we need to connect this
- We have a bit of a stable attendance problem: you build
something up with the class and then only 1 person from that class comes to the
next one
- It’s been really interesting for me because I’ve learned
that it’s important to have a debate going, not just telling people
- Request from Occupy Toronto for Free Skule to be a part of
9-month anniversary party
- We need to think of some sort of strategy to raise
attendance
Adding another day in
the week:
- Not at the Time-being
-- I think we should try to perfect the one-day before
moving onto a second
- I’m too busy to come to more days
- You could throw in 1 or 2 workshops during the week
- This would require a lot of outreach
- It’s difficult to spend a full day, but then you’re
immersed in it for a full day
-In the beginning we wanted the courses to be an affiliate group,
and then it’s the teacher’s responsibility to recruit
Bringing out the classes onto different days:
- see decisions
Outreach:
- Media Wrench to make letterhead – Roxy will send out info
- Toronto.com à
volunteer opportunities
-
Roxy will write up a volunteer call-out, and post it on a google document for
all to see – 24hrs after it is posted and commented on, we will send it out
Roles and Responsibilities of Volunteers:
- Social Media Updates
- Outreach and Recruit
-
Flyers
-
Postering
-Specific
event promotion
-
Calling other organizations
-
Door to Door
-
Streetreach
- Any other creative ways you can think of
-
Street Theater
- Teachers
-
ESL teacher – free language courses
- Web-Developer
- Help with Event Planning for September Community Event
3-5hrs a week
Google Group:
- Salomeh will make one
- Roxy to send out list of emails to Salomeh
- Outreach on Friday
Festival:
- Families for Education Festival
- Action groups/items
- To discuss general education system
- Need to Research Venue Spaces – ideally with outdoor and
indoor space
- Queen’s Park, Community Center
in St. James Town - Jo
- Scadding Court Community
Center - Roxy
- Events happening in September –
Laura to research
-
Not frosh week, not Labour Day, manifesto
Funding - Roxy to Set up A Pay-Pal Account for the Free
Skule dedicated
- Indy Go-Go – Veronica
will look into this
-
Art Space:
- Veronica – to contact SKETCH about opening another
location in the east end of Toronto
- Petra has offered warehouse space at Dupont and Ossington
for Free Skule – would like a ‘pay-what-you-can’ deal
- Jo’s backyard can be used every once and a while
Extras:
- On June 11th @7pm there is a meeting to develop
a 4-8 week intro to everything class. Please contact us if you would like to be
a part of this planning
