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School Info Chart - Aktive Schule Dresden
The Questions
| Question | Answer
| |
| What is the name of the school? | Aktive Schule Dresden | |
| What is the address of the school? | Leipziger Str. 33, 01097 Dresden, Germany | |
| School’s phone number and website? | +49 (0) 351 41883338 | |
| School’s EUDEC contact person and e-mail? | Ulrike Wirth, ulrike.wirth at aktive-schule-dresden.de | |
| What is the legal status of the school? | genehmigte Ersatzschule; Grund- und Oberschule | |
| When was the school founded? | 8th of August 2016 | |
| How many students are there? | 49 (May 2018) | |
| Which student age groups are there? | currently 6 - 16 | |
| How many (full-time equivalent) staff members? | There are 12 staff members, all part-time | |
| How many school hours per day and week? | The school is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 till 17:00 | |
| Interested in hosting interns? | yes | |
| Interested in the EUDEC Diploma? | (answer here) | |
| Interested in the EUDEC exchange program? | yes | |
| Question | Three-Word Answer | Further Elaboration, Clarification or Qualification of the Answer
|
| Does applicable law allow your school to follow the EUDEC definition of democratic education? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Do students have free choice of whether or not to participate in scholastic and other activities? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students easily initiate and suggest scholastic and other activities? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students offer, lead and run scholastic and other activities? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on the school’s rules? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on the consequences of breaking rules? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on the use of spaces? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Are there any compulsory activities for students? | no, with one exceptions | They need to come to the School Meeting for special themes, if this is necessary for working on these themes |
| Who decides on the compulsory activities and who must participate? | (3-word answer) | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on accepting and expelling other students? | no | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students be involved in the hiring and firing of staff members, including educational staff? | yes, partly | The students generally have a voice in something; they can co-decide on fix-term contracts up to three months. |
| Can students and staff equally participate in the decision making process? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Does your school need to meet any curriculum imposed from outside of the school? | yes | Our school has to make sure, that all students have the possibility to appropriate the learning matter from the Saxon curriculum |
| How is student performance and progress monitored and graded? | no grades | At the end of the school year every pupil gets his own letter of the school year |
| Can students ‘vote’ on managing and deciding the budget? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on the infrastructure of the school? | yes | (Further Elaboration...) |
| Can students ‘vote’ on the management structure of the school? | no | (Further Elaboration...) |
School Description
| Questions | Answers
| |
| How often do school meetings take place? | one or two times per week | |
| Which decision making bodies are there? | the School Meeting | |
| Who decides who is in which decision making body? | (answer here) | |
| What is the parents’ role in school life? | They help the school with some problems but not more. | |
| What is the parents’ role in decision making? | consultative | |
| Who is financially and legally responsible for your school? | the board of the association | |
| Who makes financial and legal decisions? | the board of the association | |
| What is the school building like? | It is on the first floor of a former office building | |
| Is your school (partially or fully) a boarding school? | no | |
| From how far do most students come from? | from Dresden and surrounding; three students live 70 km away | |
| In what kind of area is the school located? | in the city, not far from the river Elbe | |
| How is the school funded? | (answer here) | |
| Can students get a degree/diploma? | No. But they can do external exams und we help them in preparing for that. | |
| Is there any curriculum planning? | (answer here) | |
Further Description and Comments:
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