Posted in Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
From Guest Blogger, Lareese Hall
The Community Problem Solving workshop was a first for the Kennedy School – it was the first time teams of participants came to the school to work on a problem specific to our community.
Intense days left little time for much more than wandering back to your room at [...]
Posted in Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Lareese Hall is a student in the Civic Entrepreneurship in Public Institutions course that I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library Information and Sciences. While the rest of the class was on campus for a full-day session (this is a distance ed class that meets in person for one day [...]
Posted in Commentary, social networking, tagged bill bradley, League of Technical Voters, lightning strikes, LOTV, new american story, Texas Forums, transparent federal budget, waaa on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From BlogTalk Radio Lightning Strikes…
Rod Amis, a well-known blogger, social media pundit and Christina Shideler talk with Silona Bonewald of the League of Technical Voters and Taylor Willingham of Texas Forums (an initiative of the LBJ Library) about building an online transparent federal budget. Former Senator and Presidential candidate Bill Bradley who promotes this idea [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Forums, Guest Bloggers, Texas Forums Events, Workshops and Seminars on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
On Thursday, October 18th, about 60 teachers, administrators, parents, government officials, and youth gathered at Reagan High School in Austin, TX for a series of three forums on “Too Many Children Left Behind: Closing the Achievement Gap in Central Texas.” The diverse group is gathering on behalf of a diverse Austin Independent School District. Other [...]
Posted in Commentary on September 18, 2007 | No Comments »
[cross-posted from Scattered Leaves.]
I get The Note, a daily digest of what’s happening in Washington, along with political alerts throughout the day from the ABC News Political Unit. Today’s story is about Clinton’s new healthcare plan and how it has at least given Dems and Reps something to agree on — they don’t like it.
But [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Commentary, Texas Forums Events on September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today Amy Averett (Austin Voices) and I conducted our first workshop for the Achievement Gap forums at the Round Rock High School. We had fifteen people - about half students. Yeah! I can’t believe how much material we covered in five hours, AND they got a chance to practice. In fact, the role playing [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Commentary, Training Ideas on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
[cross-posted from the personal blog of Taylor Willingham]
I’ve been in a writer’s funk for over two weeks now, which is causing great headaches since I’m responsible for rewriting the Achievement Gap discussion guide here in Central Texas. I’m basing the framework on the National Issues Forums guide, but incorporating Texas data from E3 Alliance. I’m [...]
Posted in Commentary on July 31, 2007 | No Comments »
August in National Win With Civility Month. I got this information from the same place I get a lot of my news…Reader’s Digest. Actually, it was part of their August Word Power page (page 45) where you get a list of words and four possible definitions to test your word power.
A month devoted to civility [...]
Posted in Commentary on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
[Robyn Emerson, long-time Texas Forums member, social activist, organizer of the Tavis Smiley Presidential Forum Watch Parties we are hosting at the LBJ Library recently launched a blog, "A World that Works: Where the Possibility is Brought to Life." The following is her second post on her brand new venture. I am posting it in [...]
Posted in Commentary on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
When Mrs. Johnson passed away, a well-choreographed team of experts in black suits and comfortable shoes, equipped with earplugs, blue tooth enabled phones, walkie-talkies, and laminated badges sprang into action orchestrating every last detail of the “Final Tribute” to a woman who was greatly loved.
That was as it should be.
Nothing should be left to chance.
Every [...]
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