Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering with PFS!

While all PFS programming will reflect the PNLT’s commitment to equity, community-building and social justice, we take inspiration from the global free school movement in affirming instructors’ full autonomy to organize classes and curricula.

The questions below will help the PFS organizing team to:

a)   Understand how your own skill-sharing priorities match up with those of PFS.

b)   Understand how we in the PFS organizing team can help support your teaching, and make you comfortable as a PFS instructor.

c)   Ensure that your proposed “educational program” (i.e. class,/workshop, /lecture, /skill-share, etc.) will conform to the PNLT’s Purpose Vision and Values, as well as its commitment to equity. (More on that below.)

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* 1. What is your name and email address?  (These details will not be shared with anyone apart from PFS organizers and PNLT staff.)

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* 2. What kind of educational programming would you like to offer?

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* 3. How often were you thinking of offering this programming?

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* 4. What were you thinking of calling your educational program?

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* 5. Briefly describe the idea of your proposed educational program:

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* 6. What kind of support would you need to do your educational work? (For example, do you need handouts printed? Would you like a co-instructor or other support? Do you need a particular type of space to teach in?) Please be as specific as you can.

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* 7. Please indicate which option better suits your educational program:

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* 8. Have you read and do you agree to abide by the PNLT’s Purpose, Vision and Values?

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* 9. Following in the footsteps of Free Schools past, the PFS organizing team affirms a commitment to anti-racism and radical inclusivity. Echoing the Manifesto of the Toronto Freeskool of the early 2000s, we are

committed to, and actively strive to ensure that our spaces are diverse, and safe for the expression of all identities. We believe that this is crucial to a healthy learning process. Exposing and challenging unjust race, class, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation and other dynamics helps us to work towards a culture that values a wider range of truths and experiences. In terms of radical inclusivity, we acknowledge that there are very real social and structural barriers to many people’s ability to engage in education initiatives, and seek to challenge and remove these barriers to the greatest extent possible... It is, and will continue to be a work in progress. We strive to embrace discomfort and challenge our own assumptions, privileges and identities.

Can you agree to honour this commitment in your own teaching work?

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* 10. Do you speak any languages besides English? If so, can you specify a) the languages you speak and b) your proficiency at writing and speaking those languages?

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