Posted in Achievement Gap, Research on September 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
[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.]
Our partner groups are back together in pairs talking about their questions regarding leading and organizing forums. We now have a [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Research on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
[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 conducted a forum for on the Achievement Gap for the twelve communities that will be using this issue in their [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, deliberate on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
[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 [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Research on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
[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.]
Here are the ways that people in this room are hearing others in their community talk about schools and the Achievement [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, deliberate on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
[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 [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Research, deliberate on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
[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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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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