{"id":116,"date":"2023-06-09T21:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T01:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/?p=116"},"modified":"2023-06-09T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T01:16:00","slug":"making-the-academy-better-charter-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/2023\/06\/09\/making-the-academy-better-charter-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the academy better: charter review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This fall makes 25 years since the Academy of Defense was signed into existence by their serene highnesses, Edward and Rylyn, prince and princess of the Principality of Ealdormere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For context: in AS 32 (CE 1998) most fencers were using foils, epees and double-wide epees; the &#8220;sidesword experiment&#8221; (precursor to cut &amp; thrust) had not yet started; whether or not fencing would be allowed in Ealdormere was a serious question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a principality, Ealdormere&#8217;s own awards (besides AoA) didn&#8217;t carry precedence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The academy&#8217;s charter in AS 32 was written as a means to build community, build skills, and recognize the people excelling in that community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, in a mature kingdom we have martial awards, and within the Society we now have a peerage for the Order of Defense. We have youth combat, fencing, and cut &amp; thrust. We have rapier spears! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Society wide, we&#8217;re more conscious of inclusivity: making people of all backgrounds and abilities welcome in our halls, and on the field of honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happily, the academy continues to have a role for building skills and community. And it&#8217;s time to review the charter, consider what we want from Ealdormere&#8217;s academy, and how we can make it better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please read over the charter as it stands now, and consider: what you, as an academy member or candidate, want to see in the academy, <strong>and <\/strong>what you&#8217;ll pitch in to help it happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At War of the Trillium, we&#8217;ll break bread together, share a glass, and consider what we want from the academy for the next 25 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/06\/EAOD-Charter-2018.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of EAOD-Charter-2018..\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-bd642b61-ac5d-4c47-9bff-f548c81af5ad\" href=\"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/06\/EAOD-Charter-2018.pdf\">EAOD-Charter-2018<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/06\/EAOD-Charter-2018.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-bd642b61-ac5d-4c47-9bff-f548c81af5ad\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some items already marked for change<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These items don&#8217;t require a lot of discussion, bc I&#8217;ve gotten clear feedback already that they require updates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>remove requirement to publish planned challenges in the <em>Tidings<\/em>, in favour of publishing online, (in these hallowed pages)<\/li><li>update the list of weapons forms &#8211; preferably link to Ealdormere&#8217;s library page &gt; rapier handbook as reference<\/li><li>make the text gender-neutral<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some items up for discussion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These items come out of proposed changes in the previous list:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>how much notice <strong>is <\/strong>required for a challenge to make it happen, so that everyone interested can learn about it, and make plans to attend? Consider that:<ul><li>Praeceptor needs to contact event stewards and marshals in charge to confirm there&#8217;s time, space and goodwill<\/li><li>Praeceptor also needs to confirm enough academy members are attending to support a challenge. As the ranks rise, the available participant list gets smaller, so this step takes planning<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>do we &#8220;link&#8221; ranks with number of authorizations in weapons forms? Maybe there&#8217;s a good way to make challenging in more accessible, even if you stick with 1 or 2 weapons forms, for any number of reasons<\/li><li>do we encourage challengers to use cut &amp; thrust as as weapons form? how about if they want to do cut &amp; thrust exclusively? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More ideas still <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>how can we make the research component of the ranks more accessible? Right now many people associate &#8220;research&#8221; with &#8220;write an essay&#8221;, and for right and good reasons not everyone wants to write an essay for their hobby. In fact, &#8220;research&#8221; can be a wide range of finished works: clothes, armour, weapons or accessories, a YouTube video, a handout. This perception is in part &#8220;just&#8221; about communication of requirements, but it&#8217;s a very persistent idea<\/li><li>do only higher ranks <s>commit <\/s>do research? what if you could start research <strong>earlier<\/strong>, and complete it at any point during your time in the academy? <\/li><li>how can we make the decision-making mechanism in the academy more accessible?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Needed: a process for changing the charter <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The academy needs a way to update the charter in future, that is considered and fair. I&#8217;m hoping people can bring ideas to the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A good goal for a process is: not too hard (to either take part in, or run), not too easy (so not prone to whimsy or fads), just right for volunteers and interested members to manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m available to chat on FB, Discord and eaod-dot-praeceptor -at- gmail-dot-com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall makes 25 years since the Academy of Defense was signed into existence by their serene highnesses, Edward and Rylyn, prince and princess of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,9,12,10],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy","tag-ealdormere","tag-eaod","tag-fencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ealdormere.ca\/eaod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}