www.cwpo.org presented peace classes for 5 years which included 16,000 youth at its peak in 2014 in Kenya, Mexico & Nepal. Facilitators visited every class for one hour a week practicing non-violent communication skills. We want to expand the curriculum to the Earth & Sky Peace Collective in Hawaii to start. The Collective will be monthly events and classes sharing Peace building skills like Heart
coherence, Universal Dances of Peace and Non Violent Communication plus preventing sexual abuse through music, art, living collaborative space and workshops. CWPO's curriculum includes Anastasia principles like connecting with nature, sustainability, agriculture & husbandry to learn to feed oneself and one's family. Down the road there will be separate peace building homeless shelters where men & women help build, maintain and inspire themselves & others to live a peaceful, useful & meaningful life. CWPO’s current curriculum will be expanded by utilizing it in events and workshops for children and adults. Super long term goal will still be creating Earth & Sky Peace Schools: with the mission to educate students ages 8-25 who are interested in creating world peace by starting with themselves and finding what they love to do in life and doing it for a living. Students will receive instruction in a small open-air classroom based environment. ESPS anticipates the average class size of 12 students. This will allow for maximum use of inquiry-based and enhanced instruction based on the 21st Century Learning Skills of creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration. The curriculum of the school includes the humanities (ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music, dance and theatre). Language arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing; Fine arts: painting, sculpture, drawing & architecture. Today, the fine arts commonly include additional forms, such as film, photography, conceptual art, and printmaking also learning the sciences, including Physics, Chemistry, & Biology; Physical activities of dance, athletics, body movement, Yoga, Pilates, swimming & peaceful martial arts. We also entertain, not for the purpose of personal fame but to express the energy of Oneness which is who we are and to share the message of this new form of education. We also teach how to cook, clean, build, service, maintain, beautify, plant, harvest, nurture, and garden. We teach whole brain activities, how to wonder, imagine, explore, daydream, and deduce. We do not have competitors. We acknowledge that other institutions have their own way of expressing Oneness. At this time, ours is unique with the core principles of loving one another and having our students teach the subjects. The current CWPO peace curriculum includes pieces structured around Native American culture (i.e. Each school’s natural environment will dictate the specifics of cultural pieces: Arizona will utilize tribal traditional sacred ways (elders will share their knowledge and practices), Hawaii will utilize Native Hawaiian teachings (hula, ukulele, growing native foods, etc.) and Kenya will do likewise. Furthermore students will bring their own traditions and cultures to the table, with food, dance, music, traditions, in order to celebrate and magnify a world culture. The school staff will include facilitators in: language arts/English, science, social studies, math, special education, physical education, instrumental and vocal music, drama, dance and foreign language teachers. We will also employ part-time private teachers and mentors. ESPS will recruit teachers from various sources. Local and regional colleges and universities websites, mailing lists and/or newsletters, will be accessed for job postings and unique job opportunities at ESPS. The internet will be used as a recruiting tool by posting on job boards and education-related websites. We will also contact teacher training programs that work with certified teachers in the middle and high school levels to announce available teaching positions. We will utilize every networking opportunity to find high quality educators. Faculty will be evaluated on a regular basis, and ongoing. Facilitators at ESPS will receive feedback regularly through no less than monthly observations in the first 6 months, then quarterly. Two formal reviews will occur in the fall and spring using the EES evaluation form developed and adopted by ESPS Board. The observations and reviews will address planning and instruction, leadership and professionalism. The school leader will meet with the facilitator after the observation session to provide feedback and support for improvement. In addition, student and parent survey data will be collected annually and shared with the teacher to aid in the process of improvement. Policies and guidelines for continued performance development will include: Performing Arts Integration, Differentiation Training and other personal development workshops to develop within skill-set or as required by federal, state, local labor boards. ESPS seeks to reach those students interested in creating peace in the world and in the performing arts (dance, drama or music). Specifically, the school would provide an opportunity for advanced training and education in academics and performing arts to those students in the low to middle class income brackets. Families of these students may not necessarily have the means to provide activities such as private instruction, academic support and mentoring resources for their children.
