The International Education Conference Planning Meeting was a virtual and terrestrial success. Attendees used innovative technology to identify characteristics for key portfolios (teams). We determined that organizing for a successful multi-dimensional international experience in 2009 is too ambitious. The emphasis is on “success”. We will host a trial gathering in June 2009 in Canton, Ohio.
Congratulations to all who participated in this momentus meeting.
Part of the Leap of Learning’s outcome were 3 core strategies to achieve a Flourishing Canton, driven by the community, in particular its young people.
We want to take the time to say congratulations for realizing your strategies! To see what they are doing, visit their website: Act 3 Canton “Teens Working for Teens to Actively Create a better Tomorrow“.
It has been a privilege to work with you!
You can read more about the Positive Change Core Leap Of Learning Process with Canton, Ohio in our ‘stories’ section.
A “Leap Of Learning” (LOL) is what we call our facilitated process. Typically, it is in the form of a 2 day conversation/summit co-created by us and the community that invites us. For instance, our most recent LOL, in Canton, Ohio, USA, was a collaboration with Canton’s young leadership and Stark County Educators and Positive Change Core (PCC).
As you know your community best, all LOL’s focus are driven by you and are designed to respond to the topics and challenges facing your community. Canton’s choice, for instance, was to Create “Bold Strategies” for a “Flourishing Canton”. (You can read more about the Canton LOL here in our Story section)
A key innovation in PCC’s process is that youth are always present in the conversation. As many of us adults have seen, their participation and involvement has far enriched the dialogue and outcomes. An example: a debate begun over which of the two successful young leadership programs operating in a community should be axed. A 15year old man listened quietly and then asked: If we have enough resources, is there a reason why there can’t be two? The debate fell silent.
Needless to say, that community still has two great leadership programs.
Intrigued? To find out more about hosting a Leap Of Learning to grow what’s best in your youth and/or education organization or community, simply contact us and start the conversation.
We look forward to leaping together!
Positive Change Core, the evolution of Positive Change Corps, is now online – and we are blogging too!
It has been almost 5 years since our vision was born on September 11, 2001. And together we have gone through a lot!
This includes bringing our innovative process ‘Leap Of Learning’ to communities who invited us to join them and work to produce rapid, sustainable, contagious transformation, and hosting countless learning opportunity monthly calls, sharing from our community via our listserv, a recent renaming and now, the evolution of Positive Change Core’s brand and website.
This Positive Change Core site, which uses opensource technology, thanks to WordPress and a collaboration with designer Zern Liew and many of you, is just phase 1 in bringing our collaborative community together sustainably virtually as well as physically (and telephonically…).
We look forward to continuing to work with you and your communities facilitating strength based change processes to elevate youth and the education sector.
And of course, we welcome your comments!
We are always in the process of hosting new ‘Leap of Learnings’ and other community conversations. We also have a variety of ongoing events and ways to connect with our community and learn with us:
Leap Of Learnings – Past Leap of Learnings have included a community conversation in Canton Ohio, June 12 & 13th 2006. Outcomes included creating 3 Bold Strategies that Promote a Flourishing Canton – that are currently being realised by the community. To read more about Canton and other ‘Leap of Learnings’ visit our stories section.Â
If you are interested in support in hosting such a conversation in your community please contact us.
Monthly Topic Calls: The PCC sponsors facilitated Topic Calls with subject matter experts. Most recently the 2006-2007 series hosted Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D, the prominent writer, teacher and activist, discussing the Center for Courage and Renewal and subjects ranging from contemplation to community, the inner life to public life, and education to social change. 100 people participated in this call. Other calls have included Tricia S. Jones, Ph.D. from Temple University, College of Education, Department of Psychological Studies on The Conflict Resolution Education in Teacher Education (CRETE) Project — a collaboration between organizations to educate pre-service teachers in conflict education. CRETE addresses two crises in contemporary urban education and teacher attrition.
To join topic calls please email Steven N. Pyser, J.D: steve”AT”thedialogue.net [please replace: “AT” with @ symbol]
Daily listserv – A daily digest with emails from and to our community sharing knowledge, questions and resources. By placing your name on our moderated list serve, you will receive announcements, reminders, follow up notes, and requests from other PCC members to your email account.