One of the activities in the Reconciliation Summerwork program is to create our own covenant.

The following is just a model to help our community create our own covenant, we will use it in this program while we create our own.

This covenant* comprises the learning guidelines and tenants of the program: Reconciliation Summerwork. 

·    The paramount objective of the program is to create a community of learners.  To that end:
·    Reconciliation Summerwork is a program based on equal commitment and responsibility by both the faculty and the students.   
·    As Reconciliation Summerwork exists within the larger community of The Evergreen State College, all members of the community are subservient to the guidelines  set forth in the TESC Social contract. 
·    The goals of this community are to provide an environment rich in learning opportunities, facilitation of learning, a sounding board for self-paced learning objectives, and hopefully to sparkle a personal liberation process in each participant.
·    Community members are expected to pursue a tract of learning objectives for their own personal improvement. 
·    As community is one main objective, a cumulative presentation is the sole requirement for successful completion of the program and cooperation in the community.  A presentation or publication shared with the learning community of the class ensures not only commitment to the community but also commitment to the fostering of knowledge . 
·    It is understood that the activities of one individual sometimes override the needs of the community.  As such attendance is encouraged but not mandatory.
.   Conflict and grievances should be dealt with between the parties themselves and solved within the community.
.    Participants will emphasize a complete shift towards a student-centered approach to their own education.
·    Each faculty will emphasize a Freirian liberatory education approach by:
       -  Becoming a collaborator and ally of the students, not  supervisors.
       -  Encouraging that the subject Reconciliation must be the lives of the students, reflected back to the student as a problem or source of contradiction.
       -  Facilitating a goal which must be not just to change the student but to work with the student to change their world.
       -  Practicing a process that must be rational and cognitive, rather than affective, involving critical thinking, natural learning process, problem-posing, looking for contradictions, and using metacognition.

(*) Adapted from the Recognition program Covenant.