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Many people say “Schools are broken! And we need to fix them!” But what if schools (the big, impersonal buildings that look and feel like factories from a vanished Industrial Age) aren’t broken at all? What if they’re functioning exactly the way they were designed to function 120 years ago? At the Three Column Network, we don’t intend to “fix” existing schools at all. Our goal is to build and sustain joyful learning communities where learners, teachers, and families build something meaningful together and share the ownership of the learning and the learning environment. Forget everything you thought you knew about schools, and join us on a voyage of discovery!

This site serves as Mr. Schwamm's final project for the "New School Creation" massive open online course offered by High Tech High and UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Education.  But the Three Column Network isn't "just a project."  We intend to open Three Column Sandhills in the fall of 2014.