RCE Making Change Stick
Taking action now!
Register here to be kept informed of RCE Making Change Stick actions. The current Sessions are to lay the groundwork for this effort to unite us behind pulling education into alignment with human rights. It will continue through to the 2026 Learning Planet Festival.
This is the Zoom link to RCE Making Change Stick Sessions 4 and 5 coming up on May 20th and 27th at 7pm UTC:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84756990732.
Recordings of Previous Sessions
Session 1 Recordings
– The unedited Zoom recordings from Session 1 (Passcode: r@5KzgN3)
– The Zoom AI summary of the session
Session 2 Recordings
– The unedited Zoom recordings from Session 2
– The Zoom AI summary of the session
Session 3 Recordings
– The unedited Zoom recordings from Session 3 (Passcode: tf*mJX9n)
– The Zoom AI summary of the session
RCE Making Change Stick begins with a five session series of one hour gatherings (see below), spread over several weeks, aimed at uniting those who support pulling education into alignment with human rights. Most of the people needed for this action are already stretched to capacity. It is therefore a matter of coming up with strategies for us to collectively work smarter, not harder. RCE Making Change Stick is an invitation to all human rights activists to give attention to what we can do differently. See More on What to Expect.
Participate as little or as much as you can. Please visit the following two links describing the challenge we face.
– The Task at Hand
– Insights into what a paradigm shift involves
The movement we need requires connecting personally. Social media posts, newsletters and platforms like Discord and WhatsApp have proven to be insufficient. At least 500 emails have been sent to supporters of rights-centric education inviting them to register for RCE Making Change Stick. Imagine if only half of them were to register and then help to create a snowball effect by getting 5 others to register who would get five more, etc.
RCE Making Change Stick is organized by Uniting for Children and Youth – UCY, one of the many founders of Rights-Centric Education Network – RCEN. The RCEN is not an organization. It is the conscious collaboration of people and organizations aiming to pull education into alignment with human rights. UCY is therefore a supporter at large helping to expand and strengthen the RCEN. If you have not already done so, please sign the Declaration of Child Rights-Centric Education to help demonstrate to the world that people who believe in rights-centric education are substantial in number and a force to be taken seriously.
Shifting Gears: Over the past several decades pioneers of possibilities working outside public school systems have well defined the kinds of learning environments young people need if they are to thrive, and they have established a range of applications that have successfully turned theory into practice. RCE Making Change Stick aims to shift the emphasis from defining what is known about human flourishing more to getting the theory embedded in mainstream education for the benefit of all. It requires widespread conscious collaboration with attention to how this collaboration can augment the work already being done by change agents throughout the world without adding to the demands on their resources. By coming together in collective action now, we stand a chance of cultivating a global population that has the capacity to address the polycrisis before it becomes insurmountable.
The Five Sessions
Session 1, April 22nd, 8pm UTC: Making Change Stick – Introduction and discussion by author James Mannion.
Session 2, April 29th, 7pm UTC: Making Change Stick – Turning talk into action.
Session 3, May 13th, 7pm UTC: The Agentic Schools Manifesto – Introduction and discussion by author Don Berg.
Session 4, May 20th, 7pm UTC: The Agentic Schools Manifesto – Turning talk into action.
Session 5, May 27th, 7pm UTC: World Systems Solutions – Moving towards a global learning ecosystem. See Entering the Era of Empowerment by John Jones, a powerful look at “Self-Sovereignty in a Complex World”.
The first two sessions will consider how to create change from inside conventional school systems. The next two will focus more on actions to be taken outside public education, and the final session will grow the vision of a thriving global learning ecosystem cultivating the capacity of people to address pressing world problems.
It is not prerequisite, but as much as time permits, participants are asked to familiarize themselves in advance of related sessions with what is contained in James’s and Don’s recently produced resources. See here how to obtain pdf files of the books.
“One hears more frequently now of parents banding together, finding teachers, and starting little schools . . . There are no signs that a movement exists, but there are many signs that one might . . .”
By joining the RCE Making Change Stick action you will help to attack the problem identified above by George Dennison in 1969.
Where to energize and build alliances.
AERO, June 27-29
IDEC, August 1-7
UCY collaborated with supporters of the RCEN to produce 26 events for the 2025 Learning Planet Festival. A Festival organizer had the following to say about the RCEN involvement:
“The whole LearningPlanet Festival team has been really impressed by your ideas to further engage participants and your incredibly generous contributions to this year’s Festival. The Rights-Centric Education Network has been one of the top contributors in terms of number of events submitted. For this, and for your inspiring dedication, merci 🙏”