Our Network is no longer officially affiliated with the Foxfire organization in Georgia but continue to support the core practices while we explore and expand them further, searching for the proper, broader context within which to practice our craft. The Role of Assent in Learning . Each year we hold a retreat at the Marconi Center on Tomales Bay in Northern California. At the 1997 Summer Retreat welcomed Dennis Parker from the California Department of Education who discussed literacy, the teaching of reading and the impact of a phonic's based approach on progressive-constructivist pedagogy. For the 1998 Summer Retreat we culminated our discussion of student voice by inviting a team of students from El Molino High School to talk with us about education from the student's perspective.
Membership is open to all educators, teachers, aides, support personnel, administrators, etc.