How can we collaborate to enhance and leverage our community assets by focusing on learning as a core component of our town's culture?

I changed it slightly because it did not grammatically seem to flow.

If our success was completely guaranteed and Cumberland becomes a model for townwide learning, what bold steps might we choose?

Would it be 'becomes' or 'became'?

What would it look like if Cumberland were renown as a "learning community" for all residents?

replaced 'being' with as.

I think they are great questions!

Update World Cafe Questions

Hi Everyone:

Donna, Tom, and I have all weighed in once with three potential questions. We each selected the question:

How can we collaborate and enhance our community assests by focusing on learning as a core component of our town's culture? What do others think? Are we begining to build consensus on this question?

In terms of creatign forward movement, I also like the bold steps question Donna posed and the idea of Cumberland as a model in Tom's new question, so I tried combining.

If our success was completely guaranteed and Cumberland becomes a model for townwide learning, what bold steps might we choose?

I am still mulling over the others. I do like the idea of questions that define learning as part of a shared vision. I still like:

What would it look like if Cumberland were renown for being a "learning community" for all residents? I think that whatever question we chose, it should reference all residents.

Rosemary

Focus Questions for World Cafe

Building on Carol's and Rosemary's thoughts, as well as the feedback from Tom, I've come up with these 3 draft focus questions for the World Cafe:

• If we were successful in creating Cumberland as a townwide learning community, how might we define learning? (Creating shared vision)

• How can we collaborate and enhance our community assets by focusing on learning as a core component of our town's culture? (Defining the action)
  


• If our success was completely guaranteed as a townwide learning community, what bold steps might we choose? (Creating forward movement)

I posed these questions for two reasons. First, they all focus on learning as the core element...the web that ties the work together. Second, I tried to pose questions that build on each other and are interdependent.

Looking forward to your feedback.

Donna

gentle nudge-world cafe questions

Hi Everyone:

Last week I posted an online assignment regarding our World Cafe questions.

Please find some time this week to review and comment. I'd like to have some consensus on questions to use by November 20th. The following week is Thanksgiving so it will be difficult to get work accomplished and we will meet again on December 2, 2009. Since we are not meeting at all in November, it is important to participate on line. It would be helpful for our discussion to have narrowed down the questions we think will work best. We can discuss in more detail on December 2nd.

Thanks and take care, :)

Rosemary