Open World Saturdays
A future mentor-supported Saturday learning experience designed to help learners rebuild motivation, self-awareness, confidence, and a relationship with learning through meaningful experiences in the world.
Core premise
Some learners do not need another conventional course added to the week. They need a carefully designed reentry into learning.
Open World Saturdays explores what a six-to-ten-week journey might look like when learners:
- Leave the conventional classroom
- Explore meaningful places
- Work with an approved mentor
- Reestablish physical and mental bearings
- Follow questions
- Practice observation
- Create something they care about
- Reflect on how they learn
- Experience themselves as capable again
Reengagement pathway
- Arrive: Enter a meaningful place with mentor support.
- Reorient: Reestablish physical and mental bearings.
- Notice: Practice observation before explanation.
- Question: Follow genuine curiosity into inquiry.
- Practice: Apply skills through field-based learning.
- Create and Continue: Produce an artifact; transition toward future learning.
Possible structure
The following is provisional and subject to change.
- Small cohort
- Approved mentor
- Weekly Saturday experience
- Field-based learning
- Personal Field Notes
- Guided inquiry
- Individual and collaborative challenges
- Regular reflection
- Final learner-created artifact
- Transition into future learning opportunities
Potential partners
The following are possibilities under exploration, not commitments or confirmed partnerships.
What currently exists
An early concept document and public design sketch. No cohort, curriculum, mentor network, or partnership agreements have been finalized.
What remains future work
Program design, mentor selection and training, partnership development, safeguarding plans, pilot location identification, and evaluation framework.