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Summer Skool
~ sail the rainbow ~
A ten-week hybrid summer program that begins on Juneteenth and lands at August's end — rooted in community outdoor learning, the pursuit of right relationship with our screens, and the world's living tradition of street and traditional sports.
Three pillars · one summer
Each pillar stands on the same ground: that learning is something whole humans do together, in real bodies, in real places, with real care for one another.
Community-Rooted Outdoor Learning
Gardens, beaches, parks, river-mouths, salmon runs, summer-meadow ceremonies. Learning lives outside, on the land that already knows the children's names.
Without mentors, they get guards." — TEK8 Crystal Cycle
Right Relationship with Technology
We do not ban the screen and we do not worship it. After Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality we ask the harder question: which tools serve us, and which ones quietly use us?
who uses them the greatest opportunity
to enrich the environment with the fruits of their vision." — Illich, 1973
Street & Traditional Sports
HalfBall on a Ballard sidewalk. Slahal in a longhouse circle. Makahiki games at the shoreline. ʻUlu Maika rolling toward the goal. Skip-rope. Jacks. Dominoes. The world's actual play, played for real.
The skinny stick is your first lightsaber." — WHBL · Thunderbirds Workbook
The Reverse-Bermuda Triangle
Three coastal cities, each carrying a current the others need. We trace it on purpose — westward and southward and home again, in cohorts that meet locally and gather across distances.
Home base. Licton Springs, the Webster Building, Mac field, the Cedar River watershed. Coast Salish ground; UNEA's seasoned hand; HalfBall's first full-campus innings of 2026.
The cultural fountainhead. Half-rubber's Black Gullah-Geechee cousin; second-line rhythms; Mardi-Gras-Indian regalia; the spoken-word tradition that taught Hip-Hop to listen. Summer cohort partners with NOLA-based educators and tradition-keepers.
Big Island and Oʻahu. The Hawaii Star Visitor Sanctuary, Hawaiian Kingdom Tours, ʻUlu Maika and Haka Moa and Kōnane. Land that remembers its name; ʻāina that feeds; lessons in what sovereignty looks like when the current of the Pacific moves through it.
Rooted in deep work already scribed
Summer Skool isn't an invention. It is a season — woven into a framework that has been growing for years across papers, gardens, dice tables, and meeting halls.
The 10-Step Crystal Cycle: Coin · Music · Gather · Craft · Quest · Rest · Play · Map · Yield · Close. Eight petals, one rhythm.
Sports & Accessible Games Alliance. Indigenous, street, and traditional games — one path to the World Games. Summer Gathering season is our slot.
The community-authored proposal that asked Seattle to honor experiential, project-based, sovereignty-respecting K-8 learning. We are continuing it.
Three Washington mandates already aligned with garden-based, place-rooted, Native-honoring education. Summer Skool sits inside what the law already names.
A sliding scale, by design
~ Indicative tier structure for a 10-week hybrid place ~ Final tiers set with PTO + UNEA review.
The two pledges
One. Higher-paying participants explicitly subsidize lower-income participants. Our financial spreadsheet is a public document; the math is transparent.
Two. No family is turned away for inability to pay. Scholarship enrollment is ordinary enrollment, not a separate process. The same registration form. The same welcome.
It is what flowed through you today. ~
The fleet is forming.
Drop your email below. We'll send the full curriculum drop, the city-cohort sign-ups, the sliding-scale form, and the way in. No spam. No noise. One message when each thing is ready.
Or contact directly: [email protected]