We are just entering our third quarter. After this quarter's over, we will have been around one year. I wasn't sure we'd make it this far.

Right now, we are gathering teacher info for Winter Quarter. Lots of great classes are coming in. Some from previous teachers, others from new teachers. A very wide spectrum: yoga, carpentry, Spanish, collage, non-Western medicine, revolutionary history, art, monkey chant, and trash orchestra, to name just a few.

By the way, we run on a quarter system (trimester actually). A previous free skool incarnation in Santa Cruz did it monthly, but it seemed like they were overworked. This way, we only have to bug people and work hard three times a year.

Spring Quarter Mar-May
Summer Quarter Jul-Sep
Winter Quatrter Nov-Jan

Free Skool Winter Quarter schedules will be coming out next week. We'll be posting calendars around town and on-line on the Free Skool Santa Cruz website: santacruz.freeskool.org The calendar will be posted in cafés, community centers, and bulletin boards all over the county.

A few of the continuing challenges we have are:

* Keeping teachers involved beyond their classes
* Getting students involved beyond just attending classes
* Getting more students to attend classes
* Getting help doing publicity
* Getting teachers and students to use the website



About Free Skool Santa Cruz

Free Skool Santa Cruz is a completely grassroots effort, a bunch of individuals deciding to act collectively and autonomously to create a skill-sharing network, a school without institutional control. Classes are informal, egalitarian, and are held in homes, social spaces, and parks. It is your opportunity to learn from others and share what you know, to help create self-reliance, vital communities, and beauty in the world. If you are willing to learn, teach, or help organize Free Skool, then we’d like you to be part of it. We are all students and we are all teachers here.