FIRST QUARTER (emerging syllabus)
WEEK
 MONDAY
 TUESDAY
 THURSDAY
 FRIDAY
 SATURDAY

SEP
2009
 21
 22 Freshman Orientation

 24 Freshman Orientation

 25
 26
1
 28
 29 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm FIRST DAY
Orientation from former students

 OCT 1 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
Evan Hastings
4 questions
 2
 3 
2
 5
 6 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
Individual Emerging Curriculum
Multiple Intelligences Seminar
 8 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
The program moodle site
 9
 10 Theory to Praxis
Cedar Room
Longhouse LC
10am-2pm
3
 12
 13 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
Counseling/Advising
Currculum Development		 15 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
Choice Theory workshop
Bloom's Taxonomy ppt		 16
 17  Theory to Praxis
Cedar Room
Longhouse LC
4

 19
 20 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 22 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 23
 24 
5
MID TERM
 26
 27 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
The 4 questions
 29 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm
The 4 questions
 30
 31 
6
 2 NOV
 3 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 5 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 6
 7  
7
 9
 10 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 12 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 13
 14 
8
 16
 17 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 19 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 20
 21 
9
 23
 24 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 26 Longhouse Cedar Room
1pm-4pm		 27
 28 Room TBA
10am-2pm
10
LSS
 30
 DEC 1
Longhouse Cedar Room
Learning Summary Seminar (LSS)
 3
Longhouse Cedar Room
Learning Summary Seminar
 4
 5
11
LSS
 7
 8
Longhouse Cedar Room
Learning Summary Seminar
 10
Longhouse Cedar Room
Learning Summary Seminar
 11
 12
12
Evaluation
 14
 15
Longhouse Cedar Room
 17
Longhouse Cedar Room
 18
 19


OUR SOURCES

To better understand our approach to education you may read some aspects of the foundations of our program, our program:
-    is part of the Twenty Year Vision long range plan NAS on campus programs.
-    is the praxis (in the Freirian sense) of our own educational philosophy.
-    is a learner-centered learning environment based in Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, (in our learning environment we apply William Glasser's Choice Theory)
-    emphasizes the Evergreen five focii and the expectations of our Evergreen graduates,
-    follows the brain natural learning function (you learn what you are interested in learning),
-    puts strong emphasis in developing communication skills and use of instructional technology (for distance learning praxis) we share our  learning during community visiting time (every tuesday or thursday), in our Saturday Theory to Praxis class, or via email using our program list or using our program moodle site, and by presenting our projects at the end of our experience.
-    uses Howard Zinn's A People's History of the US to help us find out more about who we are and why we are what we are,  (search for identity)
-    applies the Multiple Intelligences Theory (everyone is a learner, everyone is an intellectual), this is required reading.
-    is a community of co-learners and each one of us is in charge of our instruction,  our curriculum and our assessment and our main tool for this is Bloom's Taxonomy,
-    is committed to building community by creating our own Covenant and by making together this program the dream program each one of us always wanted.

We construct/justify our program process by studying/internalizing (reading, seminaring, creating/delivering workshops, discussing in small/large groups, writing our reflections via email, web crossing, self evaluations, talking during conferences, discussing in study groups. and applying/using) concepts from the following books:
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
-A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
-Choice Theory by William Glasser
-Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner (this is required reading for week one)
-Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams.
-Embracing Contraries by Peter Elbow
-The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
-Ceremony by Silko
-Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegria (travellers to Peru)
-Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
-1491 by Charles C. Mann

Recommended books:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire-0826412769
Intelligence Reframed by Martin Gardner-0465026117
A People's History of the U S by Howard Zinn- 0060528370
The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zull-1579220541
Native American Testimony-Peter Nabokov- 0140281592
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks-0415908086
Choice Theory by William Glasser- 0060930144
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith-1856496244
Natives and Academics by Devon Mihesuah- 0803282435
Genocide of the Mind by Marijo Moore-1560255110
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes-1572309555
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval-0816627371
How to Quit School & Get a Real Life & Education by Grace Llewellyn
Education for Extinction by David Wallace Adams.
The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn
Embracing Contraries by Peter Elbow
Human Brain Human Learning by Leslie Hart
Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
1491 by Charles C. Mann

Inspirational Readings
5 Million Footsteps: The Transcontinental Trek of the Global Walk for a Livable World by Greg Edblom