Bungalow Lane ALC
Learners spend their days playing, building, exploring, and learning to work as a group, real learning that gives them a solid foundation for deeper learning. Mixed-age groups mean younger kids learn by watching older ones, and older ones learn by teaching. Each day starts with Set The Day, where learners set their own goals, and ends with a closing meeting where they reflect on what went well, and what still needs work. Our experienced facilitators offer workshops, field trips, and supply framework for conflict resolution and know when to get out of the way. The best way to understand it is to schedule a visit.
A Typical Day at Bungalow Lane
9:30 Arrive and hug your friends (or not - consent is important!)
9:45 Set-the-Day
Everyone in the community gathers in the common room to make plans for the day and add offerings to the community schedule.
10:00 Spawn Groups OR Change Up Meeting
Spawn is a smaller group meeting, within which intentions for the day and a connection activity are shared
Change-Up is an all community meeting during which community agreements are created in response to problems or issues that have arisen in previous days.
10:10 - 2:00 Self-Directed Time
Learners have several hours to interact and collaborate with each other, participate in classes and offerings, play, share meals, argue and resolve conflicts. Classes/offerings range from academic-looking things like Science labs or Spanish to Process Art, Popsicle Stick Engineering, Hole-Digging, Yard-Work and Film-Making. The most popular offerings are made in collaboration with the learners themselves!
2:00 Clean-Up
In addition to cleaning up their own messes, everyone in the community chooses a daily chore to complete at clean-up time to help maintain our magical space.
2:30 Time to go home
No one is ever ready to leave. We think that's a good sign.
