Hello all,
Yesterday I returned from the National School Board Association's annual meeting in San Diego. My heart was warmed (not by the weather, great as it was) by the large number of presentations related to community engagement. In all, 44 sessions touched on some aspect of community engagement. Some talked about World Cafe and study circles. Others focused on powerful questions and forward focus.
Here in Wisconsin I am working with a district that is reworking its mission statement for the 21st century and is using World Cafe and some really cool work from the KnowledgeWorks Foundation. I will post more on this as the process moves on.
In Minnesota, I am working with the group that planned and presented the community engagement session at the Minnesota School Board Association's annual meeting in January. We are planning a follow-up session for their August meeting.
So, good stuff is springing up all over (sorry, couldn't pass up the pun).
Great post, Deb! I went to the KnowledgeWorks site and found their Forecast 2020 to be quite interesting... really like the map and what it has to offer. Most useful for my thinking was the "Amplified Organization" aspect, one the key trends they identified... it clearly dovetails with things we are doing in our various learning communities. Here's the link:
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