Collaborating



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=Decision Making and Power Sharing=
 * Topics **
 * Creating Rules with Students **
 * Consensus and Democratic Decision-Making **
 * **Martha's Rules as an Alternative to Robert's Rules**
 * Cooperatives as Democratic Organizations **
 * ** Teacher-Led Schools **
 * Voting in America **
 * ** Citizen Participation in Politics **
 * School Suspensions and Restorative Discipline **
 * Anti-Bullying and Safe Schools **

**Creating Rules with Students**

 * [[image:Screen Shot 2017-02-24 at 12.30.24 PM.png link="@http://www.crfc.org/teaching-materials/we-students-writing-class-constitution"]]We the Students: Writing a Class Constitution, Constitutional Rights Foundation**

[|Collaborative Rule-Making and Citizenship Education: An Antidote to the Undemocratic Hidden Curriculum,] David Schimmel, 2003
 * **Interest-Based Bargaining**
 * For a perspective on collaborative rule-making from the labor and management field, see [|Interest Based Bargaining] from Maine.gov
 * See also [|Can We Bargain--Amicably? A Primer on Interest-Based Bargaining] from ALA-APA

[|Creating Classroom Rules with a Bill of Student Rights], Nicholas Provenzano, 2011

[|Creating Classroom Rules]from Science NetLinks

[|Creating Student-Generated Classroom Rules]

[|Magna Carta Template]: Create your own Magna Carta

**Consensus and Democratic Decision-Making**
[|A Short Guide to Consensus Decision-Making]

[|Consensus Decision-Making]

[|Teacher Notes: Consensus Decision Making]



**Martha's Rules as an Alternative** **Robert's Rules**
[|Robert's Rules of Order]

[|Is Robert's Rules Too Restrictive? Consider Martha's Rules of Order for Meeting]

Comparison of Robert's Rules of Order, Consensus Process and Dynamic Facilitation, from the Co-Intelligence Institute

Point of Order, The New York Times Sunday Book Review (May 20, 2007)

Democracy 2.0: Rules of Order for Everyday Democrats. C.D. Madson, The Solon Academy (2014)



**Cooperatives as Democratic Organizations**

 * "A cooperative business is any business that is worker-owned and operated in a democratic fashion"** (Surprise! It's a Cooperative, Valley Advocate, August 4, 2016, p. 12)

2.5 million co-ops worldwide; in the United States 30,000 cooperatives provide 2 million jobs

Measuring the Size and Scope of the Cooperative Economy: Results of the 2014 Global Census on Co-Operatives from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

[|Cooperative Identity, Values and Principles] from the International Cooperative Alliance.
 * Principle 2: Democratic Member Control

[|What is a Co-op?]

[|History of Co-Ops]

[|Food for a Change Film Trailer (2014)]. Discusses retail food cooperative movement in the United States

Employee-Owned Businesses
The Employee Ownership 100: America's Largest Majority Employee-Owned Companies (August 2016)

More Worker-Owned Businesses are Sprouting, USA Today, May 12, 2016



**Teacher Led Schools**
[|A School Without Principals? Yes Really, U.S. News & World Report](September 2014)

[|Teacher-Led Schools: A Rare Point of Agreement for District, Union and Charter Advocates]

[|Teacher-Powered School Inventory]--90 schools in 15 states

[|Teachers Lead the Way in Denver] March 2014.

Leadership for Teaching and Learning: How Teacher-Powered Schools Work and Why They Matter. American Educator/Summer 2016



[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/A_coloured_voting_box.png width="48" height="48"]]**Voting in America**
**For more, see AP Government Political Parties and Elections**

[|Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections, 1828 to 2008] from the American Presidency Project.

[|Voter Turnout Data, 1787 to 2012]from the United States Elections Project.





[|Voting in Early America] from Colonial Williamsburg

[|Gender Gap in Voting]from the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University

For more resources, see American Government USG.5.2

See also Keith Devlin on Counting Votes: W[|hich Flawed Voting System Do You Prefer]?

//Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy.// Darryl Pinckney, New York Review Books, 2014


 * Citizen Participation in Politics**


 * See Grade 5.8 for information on the history of town meetings
 * See Government 3.10 for further information on town meetings as a form citizen participation in politics

See [|Populist Proposals Win in 2014] for national voting on issues of minimum wage, fracking bans, corporate money limitations, paid sick leave, conservation and marijuana.

For more on the process of direct citizen involvement in political decision making, see [|Initiative, Referendum and Recall] from the National Conference of State Legislatures.

**School Suspensions and Restorative Discipline**
[|Restorative Discipline Program in San Antonio Middle School Reduces School Suspensions]

[|Colorado High School Replaces Punishment with "Talking Circles"]from PBS Newshour, February 20, 2014.

[|Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in Schools?] American Psychological Association, 2008

**Anti-Bullying and Safe Classroom Initiatives**
[|Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity,] Massachusetts Department of Education, 2011.

[|Anti-Bullying and Safe Schools Resources]from Teaching Tolerance


 * Books and Resources**

//Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons//, David Bollier, New Society Publishers, 2014.

For an example of open source activity, see the [|Open Source Seed Initiative] that has created a "protected commons" of 37 seed varieties that are released to with no property rights attached to them.