New Criteria for School Ranking:(1st take)

Degree of flexibility of the individual/ groups learning processes;

Degree of happiness and general satisfaction of students, teachers, helpers and families;

Health quality of, also, all the involved; Sustainability (building materials and quality, energy

sources, amount of recycling and upcycling); Use of opensource software and hardware as well as

production of opensource material. Overall opensource culture awareness, use and contribution;

Quality and origin of the food; also, food production (edible gardens, green gardens, etc);

Opennness to the world, how much the whole community benefits from the physical space and structures of the school (meetings, conferences, use of the workshops, open cultural events, cultural events promoted by “outsiders”);

Permeable walls – how much of the learning and creating actually happens outside school limits and how vague these can be;

Giving and contributing ability of the school and school community members. Not how much the school owns (example, grades) but how much it gives, how much it actually improves the lives and spaces beyond itself;

Mental health of students, parents, helpers, teachers, Free time of the above; Relevance – how important it is intrinsecally perceived

to be (regardless of grades), how much it makes a difference in the community / town , etc; how actual problems of the community are addressed by the school and how much is its ability to generate abundance;

Implication of the students in the communities after

schoolyears/ employment as grownups; Amount of volunteering done; Wide age range; Voluntary attendance; (Low) Level of violence (psychological or physical),

security level; Risk taking/ number of “mistakes”; Students and everybody's degree of autonomy; Beauty/ arts valued and integrated; Pairity; Diversity (age, language, ethnicity, …); Role flexibility; Knowledge of and identification with world issues.

March 2015 , Sandra Gonçalves de Gaiacosmicsandra@gmail.com