Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments

.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Kopernikus School: dialog and respect for a democratic life.- Chapter 3. Cultivating Democratic Learning Spaces: A Framework for Transformational Civics by HomePlace Collective.- Chapter 4. Alif Layla Arts Center: Dream, Explore, Act.- Chapter 5. Schooling in Egypt: Reimagined.- Chapter 6. The Hope of the HOMies.- Chapter 7. The Globe School.- Chapter 8. Empathy School: A democratic, nature-based SEL school.- Chapter 9. Building Democracy through Norms Creation: The Chelsea Public Schools, a District Revitalized.- Chapter 10. Motivation, Segregation and Responsibility: the Challenges in Our Way to Grow Equal Citizens in a Democracy.- Chapter 11. Starting with Self, Sharing Academic Success, Co-creating the World.- Chapter 12. Nurturing Lifelong Learning through Creative Projects.- Chapter 13. Moving Beyond a Checklist: Community Schools for Democratic Education in California and Beyond.- Chapter 14. Calling the shots: how each student can flourish with freedom, equity, and community.- Chapter 15. Educating students to think, feel and behave democratically: Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF): A magical space of possibility.- Chapter 16. The School Systems Remix - Building Democratic School Systems through Hip-Hop.- Chapter 17. Let the Light In.- Chapter 18. Start with the Learning Plan.- Chapter 19. Mission Hill School: Fostering Creative Storytelling through Democratic Learning.- Chapter 20. Building Student Agency One Book at a Time.- Chapter 21. The Galaxy Belongs to Them: Interests, Agency, and Democratic Schools.- Chapter 22. With our eyes on the students. City of Berlin School: keys to a democratic transformation.- Chapter 23. From being a student in a democratic school to founding one.- Chapter 24. Lift Every Voice: A Case for Democratic Music Education.- Chapter 25. Walkabout: From Disengagement to Radical Engagement.- Chapter 26. Coco: A nomad learning experience for digital inclusion in the Peruvian Amazon.-

Linda F. Nathan brings over four decades of experience in designing schools and nonprofits,  including serving as the founding principal of Boston Arts Academy, the city's first public high school for the visual and performing arts. Currently, she supports and mentors educational leaders nationally and internationally and is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USAJonathan F. Mendonca is the Head of Scale of Shikha Institute of Education & Co-founder of Barefoot Edu Foundation, a non-profit that builds school leadership for the twenty-first century across three states in India. He has served as an educator, educator trainer, institute builder and policy advocate improving the quality of education through human centered systems and policies.


Gustavo Rojas Ayala currently serves as the general director for Mexicanos Primero Sinaloa, Mexico, a non-profit that advocates for children's right to education through research and policy analysis. He has extensive experience leading school intervention projects aimed at increasing educational justice in underprivileged communities in Chile and Mexico.