We got 25 responses to our query about the title to the film! Fifteen people felt strongly we should stick with AUGUST TO JUNE, most adding that a subtitle would be good--with lots of variations on what that should be. The next most popular suggestion was Learning Beyond Measure with 4 people preferring that, then Doing School, with 3. The other titles that one or two people preferred (sometimes a single person suggested several of these) to AUGUST TO JUNE were:
In Defense of school
Real school
What you can't measure
The case for a meaningful education
GROWING WHOLE PEOPLE
UNSCRIPTED LEARNING
Open minds open classroom
CHICKENS POETRY TEARS AND LEARNING
everybody in
these children, this place
our school, our lives
one class one year
A vibrant place of learning
We got a few thoughts beyond our list:
Life, lettuce, 4 square, school was suggested by Sara Tolchin
A Whole Child's Learning World
The Joy of Teaching the Whole Child
Passionately Teaching the Whole Child
A Place for Educating the Whole Child
Educating Whole Children came to us from Liz Lauter
Freedom Learning
Free To Learn
Learning With Joy were all suggested by Mia and Jasper Thelin, but Jasper prophesied we would be sticking with AUGUST TO JUNE...and thanks to all the feedback, we are!
We had a great time the other day at school with 4 younger siblings of kids who are in the film, writing the title and subtitle on the white board: AUGUST TO JUNE, Bringing Life to School looks great when written with many a decorative twist, and then sped up by Tom so that it pops onto the screen. Ta da!
