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

Communication and engagement

Hello

I found this list describing differences between communication and engagement in a book by Kathy Gardner Chadwick entitled Improving Schools Through Community Engagement. It is simple yet relevant to our work.
Sorry, I couldn't get the columns to line up on the blog.

Communication
Communicate to
Public hearing
Talk to, tell
Information out
Seeking to establish/protect turf
Authority
Influencing the like minded
Top down
Establishing a hierarchy for decision making
Goals/ Strategic plan
Products
Public relations

Engagement
Deliberate with
Community conversation
Talk with, share
Information around
Seeking and finding common ground
Responsibility
Understanding those not like minded
Bottom up
Building a network of decision making stakeholders
Values/vision
Process
Public engagement

Rosemary