[This was posted from the Kettering Foundation meeting on September 20-21, 2007 with 12 sites working on the project, "Too Many Children Left Behind". For more information about the project visit the Project Home Page.]
A different approach to fundraising
People to be invested who aren’t currently participating
Accurate understanding of what it is and implications
Change the culture [...]
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[This was posted from the Kettering Foundation meeting on September 20-21, 2007 with 12 sites working on the project, "Too Many Children Left Behind". For more information about the project visit the Project Home Page.]
San Francisco and Central Texas
San Francisco: New partners in this effort, coming together to partner bringing together their skill sets. Looking [...]
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[This was posted from the Kettering Foundation meeting on September 20-21, 2007 with 12 sites working on the project, "Too Many Children Left Behind". For more information about the project visit the Project Home Page.]
We are just launching into two days of meeting at the Kettering Foundation Achievement Gaps. Twelve communities - six representing National [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Get Involved, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tavis’s show at PBS is now begining and it’s talking about the “Covenant with Black America.” The G21 team here, Allaina and I are Blogging on the event. It turns our that Yours Unruly is a celeb because I’m the only working journalist at the event. I was interviewed by a [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
28 June 2007: This evening I’m reporting from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas (UT) on Tavis Smiley’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) forum with the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Like many other Bloggers here tonight, I’m suppose to be an ear to what our community [...]
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Posted in deliberate on June 3, 2007 | No Comments »
One of the frequently asked questions about deliberative forums, is:
What role do facts play in the forum? or an even more frequent question:
How can you have an intelligent and worthwhile deliberation unless people learn the facts about the issue?
There is a delicate balance between providing a base level of data that is necessary for the [...]
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Texas Forums will join with E3 Alliance and Austin Voices for Education and Youth to convene community-wide deliberative forums about the Achievement Gap in Education in seven communities across the Central Texas region. These deliberations, involving hundreds of business and community leaders, parents, students, and other stakeholders, will not only form a plan for [...]
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Well I posted a diagram of an NIF framework earlier, but then someone with a good eye for design revised it to this. Much better
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I’m not much of a graphic designer, but pictures appeal to my learning style. So, I thought I’d share a couple of more graphics I use to help me think about the process of framing issues.
This is a graphic of the process of framing the privacy issue that I’ve been using with some colleagues from [...]
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