how can education be an evolving space to support students and families in their innate potential, thriving, and peace?

The main challenges facing youth today which this idea stands to systemically address are climate change, lack of opportunity, child poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline, abuse, trauma, boredom, absence of a curriculum feedback loop, cultural homogeny, absence of critical race theory, the educational status quo, underpaid staff, and a general lack of funding for schools.

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If collaboration can be created between different sectors of culture at small community scales then all the nuances of diverse responses to these issues could be a reservoir of insight for communities to act like a mycelial network of action. Each community working independently yet collaboratively to share what is working. In this sense, ideation is more of a willingness to engage in the evolution of ideas in service to how we can collectively respond to these issues as a unified global human family. This kind of education is an adaptive curriculum that includes dynamics of self-governance and Council between diverse educators, skillshare facilitators, parents, and students.

The proposed approaches which address these challenges are:

• utilizing scaleable technology for generating and sharing curriculum to communities who may potentially be inspired to adopt within the framework of their own culture with local consent.

• using B Corp dynamics

• cross-sector collaboration between studies

• crowd-sourcing [ creating circular economy strategies to attract the people, time, and resources for this necessary social soil to THRIVE. ]

• using economic resiliency methods which would integrate currency into many other forms of mutually recognized equity, relationships, human agency, and value.

• providing a foundation for learning business and generate passive income upon graduation

• on-site live/work/trade contracts for internalizing costs of production, facilitation, environments, performances, or labor

• holistic marketing strategies - performance art, parades, concerts, festivals, artwork, engaging short film

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The objectives of Kinfinity are to create a learning model which:

• Provides curricula resources around the paradigm of Peace for the thriving Inter-dependence of Urban, Rural, and Indigenous populations

• Would transparently share both proven and innovative methods of curriculum for translation into other languages

• Function with trauma-informed and somatic consultancy in curriculum, process, and design

• Allocate funds, and distribute overflow resources within a framework of global unity to participating communities at local manageable scales

• Evolves the role of the student into a co-creative collaborator

• Bridges the gap between the costs of high-quality education and the public need for better resources and opportunities for youth. Re-imagining a completely decolonized approach (beyond the housing tax-base) to mutually empower historically excluded communities that may have been formerly red-lined or on reservations

• Empowering in its design enough to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and dropout rate with advanced provocation (Reggio-Emilia term), this entails a highly creative environment of facility-wide art installations accompanied by tactics of creative support so that the learning process happens out of a generative and self-issued curiosity

• Pro-actively addresses the impacts of poverty on the child or teen by directly providing food security through food sovereignty integration within the school itself and/or partnerships

• Preserves divergent thinking, play, social synergy, and the imagination

• Surpasses the standards of Tabula Rasa

• Facilitates a functional local framework for a bio-regional, and international network of Inter-dependence, Reciprocity, Peace, and Reconciliation

As a learning platform for building community, Kinfinity would function with the idea that insight is omni-directional because genius is neither hierarchic nor purely cognitive and can come from any source or direction being common to the human experience.

Overview of goals:

• To empower youth with the opportunity to develop a basic foundation of knowledge while also preserving divergent thinking, imagination, and innate flow states

• To serve as a launch pad for local communities to create and manage their own local Climate Resilience which would be achieved by providing all-ages access to Eco-Literacy, Biomimicry, collaborative economy, Cradle-to-Cradle Industry, Upcycling, Peer-to-Peer Networks, local Organic Food Sovereignty, Water Management, Green Technology, and Sustainability.

• Respect and serve Mother Earth.

• To unite Urban, Rural, and Indigenous peoples with open-accessed curriculum that embraces and celebrates the diversity of human Heritage.

• To re-imagine the role of Business, Arts, Technology, Sustainability, and Culture in the support of youth and their local communities. Creating opportunities prior to graduating.

• To provide each participant (whether student, parent, facilitator, or educator) with the support they need in facilitating a holistic experience

• Advancing the skillshare learning environment by complete immersion into ART. Performance, costume, installations, garden art, music, graphic design, culinary art, industrial arts, interior design, etc.