logging in or signing up Community Conversations thomh Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 331 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: July 21, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description Maryland Keymakers Community Conversations Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Community Conversation CIRCLES 2008 Slide 2: Community Conversation CIRCLES 2008 Slide 3: 1. Create A TOGETHER WE CAN Community Agreement based on the community’s collective voice as recorded in the Community Conversation Circles. 2. Establish a new Together We Can Partner’s Council to support and ensure implementation of the Community Agreement through a Call to Action Strategic Plan . 3. Serve as an on-going steward for community engagement , shared leadership , accountability ,and the annual reporting of progress by all partners in the Together We Can Initiative to ensure ALL Students GRADUATE prepared for 21st C. success. 4. Keep high quality teaching and learning, and high quality organizational and community support focused on ALL Students Graduating Prepared for 21st Century personal, spiritual ,educational, and economic growth. The Maryland KeyMakers Covenant … We pledge to: www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 4: 1. Create A TOGETHER WE CAN Community Agreement based on the community’s collective voice as recorded in the Community Conversation Circles. 2. Establish a new Together We Can Partner’s Council to support and ensure implementation of the Community Agreement through a Call to Action Strategic Plan . 3. Serve as an on-going steward for community engagement , shared leadership , accountability ,and the annual reporting of progress by all partners in the Together We Can Initiative to ensure ALL Students GRADUATE prepared for 21st C. success. 4. Keep high quality teaching and learning, and high quality organizational and community support focused on ALL Students Graduating Prepared for 21st Century personal, spiritual ,educational, and economic growth. The Maryland KeyMakers Covenant … We pledge to: www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 5: Share ideas about the kind of community we need to empower our youth, all, not just some, with Keys to Personal, Educational, and Economic Success in the 21st Century Consider the connection between high quality public education and the quality of community life and economic development. Focus on the relationships we want between our schools and the community-not individual complaints or demands Begin working together in new ways , adapting to 21st Century issues and challenges, to determine the future of our community, our public schools, and our responsibilities for partner support. GOALS for our Community CIRCLES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 6: Share ideas about the kind of community we need to empower our youth, all, not just some, with Keys to Personal, Educational, and Economic Success in the 21st Century Consider the connection between high quality public education and the quality of community life and economic development. Focus on the relationships we want between our schools and the community-not individual complaints or demands Begin working together in new ways , adapting to 21st Century issues and challenges, to determine the future of our community, our public schools, and our responsibilities for partner support. GOALS for our Community CIRCLES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 7: CIRCLE VALUES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future EVERYONE IS RESPECTED 2. EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN TIME TO SPEAK BRIEFLY OR PASS, HOW SHALL WE HANDLE THE BALANCE OF LISTENING AND BEING SENSITIVE TO TIME i.e. Egg Timer, Bell, Parking Lot? 3. SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES VALUED IT IS OK TO DISAGREE, BUT NOT BE DISAGREEABLE KEEP AN OPEN MIND FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR COLLABORATION HELP “KEEP’ THE CIRCLE by CONTRIBUTING YOUR IDEAS BE WILLING TO SHARE YOUR STORY Slide 8: CIRCLE VALUES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future EVERYONE IS RESPECTED 2. EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN TIME TO SPEAK BRIEFLY OR PASS, HOW SHALL WE HANDLE THE BALANCE OF LISTENING AND BEING SENSITIVE TO TIME i.e. Egg Timer, Bell, Parking Lot? 3. SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES VALUED IT IS OK TO DISAGREE, BUT NOT BE DISAGREEABLE KEEP AN OPEN MIND FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR COLLABORATION HELP “KEEP’ THE CIRCLE by CONTRIBUTING YOUR IDEAS BE WILLING TO SHARE YOUR STORY Slide 9: 9 Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 10: 10 Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 11: Step I. LISTENING Community Conversation Circles 15-20 people in self-defined communities students, staff, parents, Board members, partners: business, not for profit, FBOs, CBOs, higher education, union, service clubs, grantors, philanthropy, civic, state, and federal, interested citizens What kind of skills and attributes do our youth need to be work and college ready when they graduate from high school? How is that different from how we see things now? LEVERS: What is currently working to prepare students for 21st C personal, educational, and career success? BARIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring each and all of our youth graduate from HS work and college ready? Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 11 Process adapted by chwilhoyte@verizon.net Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 12: Step I. LISTENING Community Conversation Circles 15-20 people in self-defined communities students, staff, parents, Board members, partners: business, not for profit, FBOs, CBOs, higher education, union, service clubs, grantors, philanthropy, civic, state, and federal, interested citizens What kind of skills and attributes do our youth need to be work and college ready when they graduate from high school? How is that different from how we see things now? LEVERS: What is currently working to prepare students for 21st C personal, educational, and career success? BARIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring each and all of our youth graduate from HS work and college ready? Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 12 Process adapted by chwilhoyte@verizon.net Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 13: Step II. AGREEING: A Community Agreement: TWC Circle Keepers’ summaries of Community Conversation data will be summarized and distilled into 3-5 goals, then distributed widely. Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 13 Together We Can Slide 14: Step II. AGREEING: A Community Agreement: TWC Circle Keepers’ summaries of Community Conversation data will be summarized and distilled into 3-5 goals, then distributed widely. Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 14 Together We Can Slide 15: Step III. ORGANIZING & MOBILIZING : Strategic Call to Action for Ensuring ALL Graduate Prepared for 21st C Success TWC Partners’ Council Sets and Communicates Direction Align Resources and Motivate People Regularly Monitor and Report Evidence (Six Flags Data) of Progress Organize and Staff Plan and Budget Problem Solve and Coach w/ Press & Support LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 15 Together We Can Slide 16: Step III. ORGANIZING & MOBILIZING : Strategic Call to Action for Ensuring ALL Graduate Prepared for 21st C Success TWC Partners’ Council Sets and Communicates Direction Align Resources and Motivate People Regularly Monitor and Report Evidence (Six Flags Data) of Progress Organize and Staff Plan and Budget Problem Solve and Coach w/ Press & Support LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 16 Together We Can Slide 17: Step IV. MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY for ADAPTIVE (new ways to work together) LEADERSHIP & RESULTS: Stakeholder Covenants : (People,-Time, Resources to Improve Youth Performance Results Data) Dashboards for Student & Stakeholder Performance Results One SMART 30-60-90 days Plans for each stakeholder and stakeholder group including plus/delta/evidence for follow up in-between meetings Quarterly Covenant Results Reports to TWC Partners Council with Annual Reports to the Community 17 Together We Can Slide 18: Step IV. MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY for ADAPTIVE (new ways to work together) LEADERSHIP & RESULTS: Stakeholder Covenants : (People,-Time, Resources to Improve Youth Performance Results Data) Dashboards for Student & Stakeholder Performance Results One SMART 30-60-90 days Plans for each stakeholder and stakeholder group including plus/delta/evidence for follow up in-between meetings Quarterly Covenant Results Reports to TWC Partners Council with Annual Reports to the Community 18 Together We Can Slide 19: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations Circle Keepers ___________________________________ Location of Conversation:___________________________ Participant Contact Info Attached □ Date: ________ PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 1. What skills and attributes will be needed by our youth for 21st century personal, educational, and economic success? Slide 20: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations Circle Keepers ___________________________________ Location of Conversation:___________________________ Participant Contact Info Attached □ Date: ________ PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 1. What skills and attributes will be needed by our youth for 21st century personal, educational, and economic success? Slide 21: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 2. Given the current Dorchester County data, where do you think we should start and focus for the greatest impact? Slide 22: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 2. Given the current Dorchester County data, where do you think we should start and focus for the greatest impact? Slide 23: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. Given how we responded to the previous questions, how is that different from what the current data says now? Slide 24: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. Given how we responded to the previous questions, how is that different from what the current data says now? Slide 25: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. LEVERS What is working or what levers or organizations (business, higher education, programs, pre-school, after school, schools, churches, CBOs, FBOs etc)do we have in our community that are preparing students for 21st C personal, educational, and economic success given the skills and attributes we identified? Slide 26: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. LEVERS What is working or what levers or organizations (business, higher education, programs, pre-school, after school, schools, churches, CBOs, FBOs etc)do we have in our community that are preparing students for 21st C personal, educational, and economic success given the skills and attributes we identified? Slide 27: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 4. BARRIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring ALL youth will GRADUATE and be work and college ready? Slide 28: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 4. BARRIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring ALL youth will GRADUATE and be work and college ready? Slide 29: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLUS: What worked for you in tonight’s Circle? DELTA: What would you change or improve for future meetings? 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Community Conversations thomh Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 331 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: July 21, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description Maryland Keymakers Community Conversations Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Community Conversation CIRCLES 2008 Slide 2: Community Conversation CIRCLES 2008 Slide 3: 1. Create A TOGETHER WE CAN Community Agreement based on the community’s collective voice as recorded in the Community Conversation Circles. 2. Establish a new Together We Can Partner’s Council to support and ensure implementation of the Community Agreement through a Call to Action Strategic Plan . 3. Serve as an on-going steward for community engagement , shared leadership , accountability ,and the annual reporting of progress by all partners in the Together We Can Initiative to ensure ALL Students GRADUATE prepared for 21st C. success. 4. Keep high quality teaching and learning, and high quality organizational and community support focused on ALL Students Graduating Prepared for 21st Century personal, spiritual ,educational, and economic growth. The Maryland KeyMakers Covenant … We pledge to: www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 4: 1. Create A TOGETHER WE CAN Community Agreement based on the community’s collective voice as recorded in the Community Conversation Circles. 2. Establish a new Together We Can Partner’s Council to support and ensure implementation of the Community Agreement through a Call to Action Strategic Plan . 3. Serve as an on-going steward for community engagement , shared leadership , accountability ,and the annual reporting of progress by all partners in the Together We Can Initiative to ensure ALL Students GRADUATE prepared for 21st C. success. 4. Keep high quality teaching and learning, and high quality organizational and community support focused on ALL Students Graduating Prepared for 21st Century personal, spiritual ,educational, and economic growth. The Maryland KeyMakers Covenant … We pledge to: www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 5: Share ideas about the kind of community we need to empower our youth, all, not just some, with Keys to Personal, Educational, and Economic Success in the 21st Century Consider the connection between high quality public education and the quality of community life and economic development. Focus on the relationships we want between our schools and the community-not individual complaints or demands Begin working together in new ways , adapting to 21st Century issues and challenges, to determine the future of our community, our public schools, and our responsibilities for partner support. GOALS for our Community CIRCLES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 6: Share ideas about the kind of community we need to empower our youth, all, not just some, with Keys to Personal, Educational, and Economic Success in the 21st Century Consider the connection between high quality public education and the quality of community life and economic development. Focus on the relationships we want between our schools and the community-not individual complaints or demands Begin working together in new ways , adapting to 21st Century issues and challenges, to determine the future of our community, our public schools, and our responsibilities for partner support. GOALS for our Community CIRCLES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 7: CIRCLE VALUES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future EVERYONE IS RESPECTED 2. EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN TIME TO SPEAK BRIEFLY OR PASS, HOW SHALL WE HANDLE THE BALANCE OF LISTENING AND BEING SENSITIVE TO TIME i.e. Egg Timer, Bell, Parking Lot? 3. SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES VALUED IT IS OK TO DISAGREE, BUT NOT BE DISAGREEABLE KEEP AN OPEN MIND FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR COLLABORATION HELP “KEEP’ THE CIRCLE by CONTRIBUTING YOUR IDEAS BE WILLING TO SHARE YOUR STORY Slide 8: CIRCLE VALUES www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future EVERYONE IS RESPECTED 2. EVERYONE IS EQUAL IN TIME TO SPEAK BRIEFLY OR PASS, HOW SHALL WE HANDLE THE BALANCE OF LISTENING AND BEING SENSITIVE TO TIME i.e. Egg Timer, Bell, Parking Lot? 3. SPIRITUAL AND EMOTIONAL ASPECTS AND PERSPECTIVES VALUED IT IS OK TO DISAGREE, BUT NOT BE DISAGREEABLE KEEP AN OPEN MIND FOCUS ON CONSTRUCTIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR COLLABORATION HELP “KEEP’ THE CIRCLE by CONTRIBUTING YOUR IDEAS BE WILLING TO SHARE YOUR STORY Slide 9: 9 Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 10: 10 Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 11: Step I. LISTENING Community Conversation Circles 15-20 people in self-defined communities students, staff, parents, Board members, partners: business, not for profit, FBOs, CBOs, higher education, union, service clubs, grantors, philanthropy, civic, state, and federal, interested citizens What kind of skills and attributes do our youth need to be work and college ready when they graduate from high school? How is that different from how we see things now? LEVERS: What is currently working to prepare students for 21st C personal, educational, and career success? BARIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring each and all of our youth graduate from HS work and college ready? Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 11 Process adapted by chwilhoyte@verizon.net Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 12: Step I. LISTENING Community Conversation Circles 15-20 people in self-defined communities students, staff, parents, Board members, partners: business, not for profit, FBOs, CBOs, higher education, union, service clubs, grantors, philanthropy, civic, state, and federal, interested citizens What kind of skills and attributes do our youth need to be work and college ready when they graduate from high school? How is that different from how we see things now? LEVERS: What is currently working to prepare students for 21st C personal, educational, and career success? BARIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring each and all of our youth graduate from HS work and college ready? Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 12 Process adapted by chwilhoyte@verizon.net Together We Can www.marylandkeymakers.org Empowering Youth with Keys to the Future Slide 13: Step II. AGREEING: A Community Agreement: TWC Circle Keepers’ summaries of Community Conversation data will be summarized and distilled into 3-5 goals, then distributed widely. Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 13 Together We Can Slide 14: Step II. AGREEING: A Community Agreement: TWC Circle Keepers’ summaries of Community Conversation data will be summarized and distilled into 3-5 goals, then distributed widely. Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 14 Together We Can Slide 15: Step III. ORGANIZING & MOBILIZING : Strategic Call to Action for Ensuring ALL Graduate Prepared for 21st C Success TWC Partners’ Council Sets and Communicates Direction Align Resources and Motivate People Regularly Monitor and Report Evidence (Six Flags Data) of Progress Organize and Staff Plan and Budget Problem Solve and Coach w/ Press & Support LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 15 Together We Can Slide 16: Step III. ORGANIZING & MOBILIZING : Strategic Call to Action for Ensuring ALL Graduate Prepared for 21st C Success TWC Partners’ Council Sets and Communicates Direction Align Resources and Motivate People Regularly Monitor and Report Evidence (Six Flags Data) of Progress Organize and Staff Plan and Budget Problem Solve and Coach w/ Press & Support LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT Engaging the Whole Community in Shared Leadership and Accountability for 21st c Economic, Educational, and Personal Growth 16 Together We Can Slide 17: Step IV. MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY for ADAPTIVE (new ways to work together) LEADERSHIP & RESULTS: Stakeholder Covenants : (People,-Time, Resources to Improve Youth Performance Results Data) Dashboards for Student & Stakeholder Performance Results One SMART 30-60-90 days Plans for each stakeholder and stakeholder group including plus/delta/evidence for follow up in-between meetings Quarterly Covenant Results Reports to TWC Partners Council with Annual Reports to the Community 17 Together We Can Slide 18: Step IV. MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY for ADAPTIVE (new ways to work together) LEADERSHIP & RESULTS: Stakeholder Covenants : (People,-Time, Resources to Improve Youth Performance Results Data) Dashboards for Student & Stakeholder Performance Results One SMART 30-60-90 days Plans for each stakeholder and stakeholder group including plus/delta/evidence for follow up in-between meetings Quarterly Covenant Results Reports to TWC Partners Council with Annual Reports to the Community 18 Together We Can Slide 19: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations Circle Keepers ___________________________________ Location of Conversation:___________________________ Participant Contact Info Attached □ Date: ________ PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 1. What skills and attributes will be needed by our youth for 21st century personal, educational, and economic success? Slide 20: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations Circle Keepers ___________________________________ Location of Conversation:___________________________ Participant Contact Info Attached □ Date: ________ PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 1. What skills and attributes will be needed by our youth for 21st century personal, educational, and economic success? Slide 21: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 2. Given the current Dorchester County data, where do you think we should start and focus for the greatest impact? Slide 22: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLEASE RECORD IDEAS & COMMENTS to EACH QUESTION: 2. Given the current Dorchester County data, where do you think we should start and focus for the greatest impact? Slide 23: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. Given how we responded to the previous questions, how is that different from what the current data says now? Slide 24: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. Given how we responded to the previous questions, how is that different from what the current data says now? Slide 25: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. LEVERS What is working or what levers or organizations (business, higher education, programs, pre-school, after school, schools, churches, CBOs, FBOs etc)do we have in our community that are preparing students for 21st C personal, educational, and economic success given the skills and attributes we identified? Slide 26: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 3. LEVERS What is working or what levers or organizations (business, higher education, programs, pre-school, after school, schools, churches, CBOs, FBOs etc)do we have in our community that are preparing students for 21st C personal, educational, and economic success given the skills and attributes we identified? Slide 27: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 4. BARRIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring ALL youth will GRADUATE and be work and college ready? Slide 28: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations 4. BARRIERS: What challenges or barriers do we face in ensuring ALL youth will GRADUATE and be work and college ready? Slide 29: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLUS: What worked for you in tonight’s Circle? DELTA: What would you change or improve for future meetings? Slide 30: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PLUS: What worked for you in tonight’s Circle? DELTA: What would you change or improve for future meetings? Slide 31: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PARKING LOT QUESTIONS & COMMENTS about TWC Slide 32: Together We Can A worksheet for conducting your own Community Conversations PARKING LOT QUESTIONS & COMMENTS about TWC