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by David Gagnon — last modified 2008-06-20 16:57

We are The Society for the Advancement of Non-Coercive Education (SANE); we have been organizing under this title since 1992. Our mandate is to support democratic, non-coercive learning environments.

SANE grew from the Windsor House School parents group in order to support Windsor House Democratic School with a broadly mandated advocacy group. The members of SANE bring with us, the experience of growing and learning with Windsor House throughout its 35+ years history. We are a collaborative group of former and current Windsor House teachers, students, parents, founders, researchers, and supporters. Windsor House is Canada's longest running democratic school; it is distinctive in the international democratic school community for having a combination of parent participation, public funding, little academic coercion, a democratic government and multi-age environment.

The SANE board and membership play an active role in the daily life and success of Windsor House School; supporting and organizing fundraisers, providing advocacy for the school on the municipal level and connecting a broad range of skilled support people with the needs of WH students. SANE members come from a wide range of background including; finance, politics, philosophy, engineering, teaching and many more. We have a strong collaborative relationship, have successfully worked on many other committees and projects together, enjoy working with one another, and trust each others competencies.

Members of SANE have been working to prepare for IDEC 2008 since March of 2007. Please feel free to contact us and share your comments

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