EXCO - Experimental Community Education of the Twin Cities

EXCO: "Experimental Community Education of the Twin Cities" is a collective that shares visions of a better world, offers free and open classes and is building a community around education for social change. The Experimental Community Education of the Twin Cities (EXCO) is a collective dedicated to supporting community initiated educational opportunities as a means for social change. Classes organized through EXCO are spaces of learning where people share their talents in an inclusive, open, non-hierarchical, and non-coercive setting. EXCO brings together community members, organizations, and movements to engage in a shared education mission. Therefore, EXCO has many parts: WE ARE A SCHOOL Our core principal is that everyone can teach or take classes and all classes are free. We have course offerings 3 sessions a year—where there are no grades, no requirements, and where learning is shared by all. We believe that EXCO classes are opportunities where education is accessible to everyone. WE ARE A COMMUNITY From our organizing collective, to our participants, to our facilitators, and to our community partners, we bring together dedicated community members working together on shared progressive goals. WE ARE A MOVEMENT EXCO aims to transform education. We seek to change the nature of education from within our own universities as well as transform the purpose of education. We aim to partner with and help other movements in their educational goals.