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		<title>Director of Online Engagement and Participation Job in DC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re in the DC area or interested in relocating, this would be a very cool job! Director of Online Engagement and Participation, AmericaSpeaks The Director of Online Engagement and Participation will lead AmericaSpeaks’ initiatives to design, facilitate and organize online participatory processes that provide citizens and stakeholders with a greater voice in governance processes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=760&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitating Our Budget; Our Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 20:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post, I proposed that the upcoming AmericaSpeaks Town Meeting on the federal debt in Dallas on June 26 was a chance to facilitate a part of history. I can now report that it will be even easier to participate than I earlier reported. Some of you have expressed an interest, but the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=757&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCDD Public Engagement Workshop Coming to Austin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, the National Coalition on Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) will be partnering with cities around the country to host one-day workshops designed to enhance public engagement and build skills in quality engagement processes. Thanks to the Austin community&#8217;s rousing support for the highly successful 2008 NCDD Conference and the flurry of dialogue and deliberation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=744&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitate a Part of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 23:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I know I&#8217;m prone to hyperbole, but when thousands of people connected by satellite and webcast join simultaneously across a country as large as the US to deliberate our economic future, being one of a select group of facilitators making it happen sounds like a pretty memorable opportunity. You have that opportunity on June [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=737&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Join the National Discussion on Federal Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of us really spend a significant amount of our time thinking about the federal budget, in particular the escalating federal debt? It&#8217;s certainly been in the news lately. And I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m just taking notice because of my new assignment working on this issue. I&#8217;m noticing. I&#8217;m getting worried. I&#8217;m getting involved. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=728&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Students Succeed: Communities Confront the Achievement Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOTE: For more information about this project, check out the following: Closing the Achievement Gaps Facebook Page The Blueprint for Educational Change in Central Texas Texas Forums Blog History of the Achievement Gap Forums in Central Texas The Kettering Foundation Report, Helping Students Succeed Earlier this week I participated in a Kettering symposium at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=714&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Forum on 21st Century Mission of Public Schools</title>
		<link>http://texasforums.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/upcoming-forum-on-21st-century-mission-of-public-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: November 14 Time: 9:00 &#8211; noon Place: LBJ Presidential Library (meet in the lobby) Topic: What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools? The nation has long prided itself on a public school system that successfully educates its children to be productive citizens of a flourishing democracy. And, by many measures, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=708&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Edward&#8217;s New College Hosts Forum on Democracy&#8217;s Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 4, twenty-five students, faculty, and administrators at St. Edward’s University (SEU) participated in a deliberative forum on Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public&#8217;s Role. Organized by the SEU New College, the university&#8217;s program for working adults, the goal of the forum was to explore different ways that students can learn and practice their roles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=697&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Education President&#8217;s Example</title>
		<link>http://texasforums.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/the-education-presidents-example/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally write such long blog posts, but I got carried away as I was preparing some background notes for the upcoming Texas Forums community conversation on &#8220;What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools?&#8221; at the LBJ Library on November 14 from 9:00 &#8211; noon. When you are organizing a program [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=680&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By the Numbers Again</title>
		<link>http://texasforums.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/by-the-numbers-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taylor Willingham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to my post By the Numbers on April 19, 2009. I will say, just as I said then, I know that numbers alone do not always measure impact and in this case none of the numbers really mean a hill of beans. (I am really put off by those twitterers who engage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=texasforums.wordpress.com&amp;blog=257696&amp;post=674&amp;subd=texasforums&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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