Davis People's Free School

Education Level

All levels, anyone can attend/teach classes.

Location

The school is decentralized— there is no main campus or office. Classes are held in public spaces, reserved community areas or private residences.

Current Organizing Hub

Dome 5 at the Domes Click for map.

E-mail

<davispeoplesfreeschool@riseup.net>

Phone

(530) 341-2373

Websites

Facebook

Twitter

Established

Winter 2007

• Do you love the Free School? Want to help organize it? We need your help.

The Davis People's Free School seeks to create an alternative space to the inaccessible modern educational system by promoting free, accessible, community-inspired and community-driven education. The Davis People's Free School was created out of the Tri Co-ops Lecture and Workshop Committee in the winter of 2007 with the aim of bringing free and accessible education to the people of Davis. For more information on other free schools, click here.

Teachers are needed! Your participation is essential to this project. There is generally a workshop or event at least twice a week. This web page is updated daily with the most current postings and changes to classes and events. If you are interested in seeing a workshop on a particular subject or teaching one yourself, fill out this quick interest survey or email us at <davispeoplesfreeschool@riseup.net>.

Note: workshops, events, jam sessions, pick-up sports games, book clubs, etc. all count! Any way you learn we will consider for inclusion in our calendar.

Click here for calendar page.

Click here for our Mission Statement.

• Teachers and the school may not charge except for the exact cost of materials (e.g. the raw metal for a metalsmithing class). Students can pay the teachers with the fruits of the prosperity that their new-found education has brought them. Better yet, pay it forward!

• On events such as field-trips for "learn how to backpack," all costs (gas, food, etc.) will be shared equally among students and teachers. No additional costs may be charged for teaching, guiding, etc.

The point of keeping it free is to ensure that everyone involved wants to be present solely to teach and to learn, and not to deliver the minimum product to be paid. We intend to change the paradigm (at least for a few hours a day) from "What can I get out of this?" to "What can I give?" Hopefully, this cultivates a safe space for sharing skills, knowledge, and a good time!

• I don't know how to teach anything. Can I still be a "DPFS teacher?" Yes!!!
  

• How to submit a workshop/event to DPFS

• Get friends, family, professors, milk man&womyn, yoga teachers, and everyone you know excited by word of mouth!
  

• Print out and post these fliers and business cards in the lunch room, your housing, the community center, bathroom stalls, Safeway, Starbucks, Delta Venus, etc.!
  

University flier.pdf
poster with pull offs.jpg
small business cards.pdf
color flier.jpg

• We currently post in the Aggie, the EC catalog, the Davis Food Co-op monthly newsletter, etc. If you have ideas for more places, let us know! <davispeoplesfreeschool@riseup.net>

• DPFS 2008-2009 Winter Calendar: DPFS_Winter_2008-2009.pdf
  

• SPRING 2008 CALENDAR: DPFS Spring 2008 Calendar.pdf
  

• FALL 2007 CALENDAR: freeschoolcalendarfall07.pdf
  

• List of Past Classes: List of Old Classes.pdf

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

-Richard Buckminster Fuller

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."

-Anne Sullivan