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LIVE INSPIRED

LIVE INSPIRED. LIVE DEMOCRACY. LIVE TO ENGAGE. LIVE TO LEARN. MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Center for Civic Engagement and Democracy. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day One). Introductions Your Workshop Leaders (Karen and Paul) Circle of Connections (Paul) Eye Contact (Paul)

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LIVE INSPIRED

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  1. LIVE INSPIRED LIVE DEMOCRACY LIVE TOENGAGE LIVE TO LEARN MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Center for Civic Engagement and Democracy

  2. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day One) Introductions Your Workshop Leaders (Karen and Paul) Circle of Connections (Paul) Eye Contact (Paul) What is Community Service and Civic Action? (All) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  3. ACCESS Community Action (Karen) Preparing for Community Action (two examples) AProject Citizen (PC) project has several steps: • Identifying the problem • Gather information • Examine solutions • Develop a public policy • Create and action plan to get policy adopted by the government Compare the steps in each type of project. What is the same and what is different? Other programs also exist that follow similar steps. MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY ACivic Action Project (CAP) has several steps: Defining and assessing your community Choosing and researching a problem Examining policy Exploring options Taking actions

  4. Civic Action Project (Karen) A Partnership ofThe Annenberg Foundation and Constitutional Rights Foundation MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) is a project-based learning model for civics and government courses. It offers a practicum for high school students in effective and engaged citizenship and uses blended learning to engage students in civic activities both in and out of the traditional U.S. government classroom. By using web-based technology and civics-based instruction and activities, students exercise important 21st century skills in digital literacy, critical thinking, collaboration, self-direction, and learning to be an engaged and effective citizen in a democracy.

  5. Civic Action Project (Karen) Statement of the problem: What do you want to work on? Your goals or objectives: What do you want to accomplish? The plan of action: How are you going to accomplish it? A task chart: Who does what job? A timeline: When will the jobs be done? A list of supporters: Who might help you? A list of obstacles: What might get in your way? An evaluation plan: How will you measure your success? A budget: How much will it cost? All nine parts should fit together and support one another. MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  6. Civic Action Project (Karen) Statement of the problem: What do you want to work on? ex. You are concerned children don’t use the park and instead just hang around and get in trouble. What is needed is more and better recreation equipment. What do you want to work on? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  7. Civic Action Project (Karen) 2. Your goals or objectives: What do you want to accomplish? ex. Your objective might be to provide the park with equipment. What do you want to accomplish? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  8. Civic Action Project (Paul) 3. The plan of action: How are you going to accomplish it? ex. Your plan will describe how you are going to do your project. The first step might be to conduct a survey of the kids about what kind of equipment they would like. The next step might be to find out if the city can provide it or if local merchants would be willing to chip in to buy it. Etc. How are you going to accomplish it? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  9. Civic Action Project (Paul) A task chart: Who does what job? 5. A timeline: When will the jobs be done? ex. Who is going to do what in your plan and how long will it take to get it completed? Who does what job and when will the jobs be done? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  10. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Two) Whole Group Activities Taking Leadership Roles (Paul) Homework Discussion (Paul) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  11. Civic Action Project (Karen) 6. A list of supporters: Who might help you? ex. Your project should try and get as much support as possible the community. You should try to enlist help from the government, non-profits, businesses and the media. But you must plan to involve them. Who might help you? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  12. Civic Action Project (Karen) 7. A list of obstacles: What might get in your way? ex. Predict things you will have to overcome or accomplish to achieve your objective. These could be resistance from merchants, the children’s apathy or competition for funds. What might get in your way? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  13. Civic Action Project (Paul) 8. An evaluation plan: How will you measure your success? ex. You need to plan in advance for determining your success. What does success look like? Partial success? Failure? Did you get the park equipment? Did the children use it? Did fewer kids hanging around cause fewer problems? How will you measure your success? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  14. Civic Action Project (Paul) 9. A budget: How much will it cost? ex. You need to plan how much money you need to complete your plan and achieve your objective. You should also consider who might donate to your plan and what contacts you have to donors. How much will it cost? MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project (CAP) - Developing a plan of action

  15. Civic Action Project (Karen) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Civic Action Project

  16. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Two) Movie Matinee Dolphin Tale A lonely and friendless boy finds and untangles a hurt dolphin that is caught in a crab trap. He becomes very attached to the dolphin when the tail must be taken off to save the dolphin's life. The boy believes the dolphin would be able to swim normally if it was given a prosthetic tail. MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  17. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Three) Whole Group ESL (Karen) What are idioms and why are they important? Idioms from Dolphin Tale Common idioms in American English Online resources to learn more about idioms MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  18. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Three) Technology and Civic Action – Using technology to support social change with change.org (Karen) What is blogging? (Karen) How can technology help promote your CAP?(Karen) Working without technology (Paul) Online resources for texting and technology vocabulary (Karen) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  19. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Three) Preparing for Civic Action Giving and receiving constructive feedback (Paul) Groups prepare CAP presentations (Karen and Paul) MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  20. ACCESS Leadership Workshop (Day Four) Presentation of CAP projects Group presentations Self Evaluations Appreciation Web (Paul) Closing Activities Evaluation of Workshop Presentation of Certificates MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY

  21. LIVE INSPIRED LIVE DEMOCRACY ENGAGE IN SERVICE ENGAGE IN DEMOCRACY LIVE TOENGAGE LIVE TO LEARN ENGAGE INSCHOLARSHIP ENGAGE IN TEACHING MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY Center for Civic Engagement and Democracy

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