Posted in Achievement Gap, NIF on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Join us on June 21 from 6-7 p.m. in the Brown Room at the LBJ Library, to learn how you can get involved and how you can organize forums in your own community. (See map to the library.)
E3 Alliance will present the results of an in-depth analysis of education in Central Texas. (See Central Texas [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Forums, NIF on May 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Steve Long (Long’s Graphics in Dayton, OH) provided me with the graphics he created for the Kettering Foundation framing, “Too Many Children Left Behind“. As noted in an earlier posting, Texas Forums will be assisting with the community engagement initiative to close the achievement gap in Central Texas. Partners on this project thus far include [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Issues, NIF, deliberate on May 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in NIF, Training Ideas, deliberate on May 22, 2007 | No Comments »
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
Posted in Dialogue and Deliberation Models, NIF, deliberate on May 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m working with E3 Alliance and Austin Voices for Education and Youth on community-wide deliberations on the Achievement Gap. (More details later.) In preparing our slides to explain this project to the school superintendents who are joining with us, Rick Olmos at E3 created a graphic that shows how the issues are framed around three [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Idea Exchange, NIF, Training Ideas on May 19, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve been thinking about how we can use youtube, innertoob (see example posted on this blog), OPAL (See examples in our archive), and other technologies to distribute content for moderators, reporters, recorders, and conveners to use to brush up on their skills or describe what these deliberative forums are all about.
So the other day, I [...]
Posted in Commentary, Libraries, NIF on May 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
[cross posted from http://www.austin-pacific.com/2007/05/managing-organizational-change-in.html
I am attending a conference called LOEX. This is a group of library instructors and the theme “Uncharted Waters: Tapping the Depths of Our Community to Enhance Learning” was perfectly aligned with my interests in libraries and community engagement.
The 11:15 - 12:15 time slot on the LOEX Conference Schedule in San [...]
Posted in Commentary, Evaluation, NIF, Research, Texas Forums Events on May 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
On the evening of May 1, ten members of Texas Forums participated in a research project for the Kettering Foundation. They watched an unedited version of Public Voice, a documentary filmed earlier in the day at the National Press club featuring panelists who were commenting on videotaped excerpts of National Issues Forums on energy. The [...]
Posted in Forums, NIF on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The following is a summary of the new National Issues Forums discusion guide on Energy posted in the Kettering Foundation’s Friday Letter from Home produced by KF resident journalist, Bob Daley. Texas Forums will have a limited number of these issue books available for free to organizers of these forums. You MUST use a trained [...]
Posted in Forums, NIF on December 8, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been reading Alan Alda’s delightful and provocative memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed And Other Things I’ve Learned.
Although he’d had a successful acting career, Alda confesses he didn’t fully understand what it takes to be a good actor until M*A*S*H.
“When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here’s what I have to say; [...]
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