Milestone community members
Our Knowledge Base
You have to know how your democracy works in order to make change. On this section of our website you will find all organizational documents for our school; all meeting notices, agenda, and approved minutes; all school policies; and all operational procedures and administrative regulations.
Welcome members!
Our Knowledge Base
You have to know how your democracy works in order to make change. On this section of our website you will find all organizational documents for our school; all meeting notices, agenda, and approved minutes; all school policies; and all operational procedures and administrative regulations.
2022-23 Academic Calendar
This Google Calendar will be updated by the Educators’ Co-op throughout the year. You can subscribe and add it to your personal Google Calendar using the below link, or download a PDF of the calendar to save or print:
Weekly Schedule for Personalized Learning
This is the Weekly Schedule that Advisors will use with students during Milestone’s academic year 2022-23.
Course Catalog
We propose, develop, and approve courses to be taught at Milestone at our weekly all-student, all-staff School Meeting. Courses currently being offered, and ideas for courses that are in development, are listed on our Personal Learning Plan Resources site. New courses are posted at the beginning of each semester.
Food Program
Milestone has partnered with Second Harvest Foodbank to establish a food pantry right within our school building. Every week, Milestone receives groceries from Second Harvest to distribute to families who need it. In addition, any and all members of Milestone are welcome to make an appointment to come by our food pantry to get what you need! Contact Sean to get more info about participating in the weekly food distribution program, or for an appointment to drop by the food pantry.
Social & Mental Health Services
Milestone has partnered with Joining Forces for Families at Dane County Human Services to ensure all our members have access to the social and mental health services that they need. Contact our office with any questions or to get connected with JFF.
Dyslexia Information
Informational guidebook on dyslexia and related conditions from theWisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
Mutual Aid
Our Educators’ Co-op is facilitating a project to allow our community to offer and receive support in whatever way is needed. Read more about this project at the link below, or contact the EC with any questions or to participate.
COVID Opening Plan for 2022-23 School Year
This Knowledge Base article contains the most up-to-date information on Milestone’s protocols, including four different contingency plans, for adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Transformative Justice Request
Transformative Justice Process
Transformative Justice is a community-based approach to justice which promotes a strong sense of community, belonging, safety, and unconditional human worth as the primary response to harm, conflict or other social problems. It focuses on repair and healing. This work is guided by a proactive, 360-degree model of accountability, mutual responsibility, unconditional human dignity and respect.
Grounded in the view that all members of a community are worthy and interdependent, the practice promotes community building, self-awareness, empathy, equity and freedom.
By opening space for the long-term commitment to personal transformation and collective agreements, transformative justice works to address deep patterns of harm caused by institutionalized racism and to eliminate the disparities this it causes.
Using the Process
Using a process to repair harm, parties who caused harm, want to repair harm or support this process in conference or through circles, will engage in those practices. Anyone finding affinity with the values discussed in these processes can enter into agreements which are collectively believed to resolve the situation. Anyone who wants to engage in this process can use the form below, or directly contact Damita Brown: Zijidragon@gmail.com
Complaint and Concern Process
The Complaint Officer at Milestone Democratic School is Sean Anderson. You can reach him at:
608-205-8110 (call/text)
or in writing at 2758 Dairy Drive, Madison WI 53718.
Milestone Democratic School does not have a Principal, Superintendent, or District Administrator. Instead, our membership elects a School Leadership Liaison every year to help connect our members and the wider community to the Leadership Circle of our school. The Leadership Circle acts collectively as Principal, Superintendent, and District Administrator. The School Leadership Liaison serves as Complaint Officer, responsible for receiving formal and informal complaints, and responding on behalf of the Leadership Circle.
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