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Leading Learning Across the Community (Reframing Community Engagement)

Leading Learning Across the Community (Reframing Community Engagement). NCC Purpose. The National Civility Center is a not-for-profit organization established in 2000 to help people make their communities better places to live.  

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Leading Learning Across the Community (Reframing Community Engagement)

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  1. Leading Learning Across the Community(Reframing Community Engagement)

  2. NCC Purpose The National Civility Center is a not-for-profit organization established in 2000 to help people make their communities better places to live.   We believe that a comprehensive approach to community improvement - one that engages all local stakeholders around shared ideas and a unified plan for action - can help community members and organizations become more effective at solving tough social issues. 

  3. Facilitate dialogue gatherings Share and disseminate information Encourage field testing of ideas Connect people and organizations Promote comprehensive community partnerships Design a better method of measurement Scope of Work

  4. Working With • Aspen Institute- Roundtable for Community Change • National Community Building Network • Peter Senge- Society for Organizational Learning • United Way of America • ABCD Institute- Northwestern University • Positive Organizational Scholarship Center- Ross School of Business University of Michigan • Oakland Community Quality Council

  5. Current Work • Cross Community work with a variety of Public, Private, and Not-for-profit organizations

  6. Quote “We are coming to the point in this country where doing what is right is merging with what we need to do to save our national skins” Marian Wright Eldeman

  7. Bigger Picture • Broad vs. Narrow • Abundance vs. Scarcity • Possibility vs. Fear • Integrated Action vs. Silo Thinking

  8. Positive Thinking

  9. Proactive vs. Reactive

  10. It takes a child to raise a village!

  11. Alignment

  12. Relational Trust Connected Community

  13. Community Context Conditions/Problems/Solutions Context/Community Culture

  14. Learning for Change • “We only hear what we understand.” • Goethe • “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” • Einstein

  15. Change • Culture of Learning: • Discovery • Shared Sense of Purpose • Possibility Thinking • Systems Thinking: • Comprehensive Intentional Approach • Neutral Facilitation • Big Picture-Global Thinking • Inclusion: • Broad Democratic Participation • Level Playing Field • Principles of Engagement • Multiple Bottom Lines: • Technical Factors • Human Element

  16. Principles of Engagement • View everyone in positive terms • Develop a common language • Build trust and common purpose • Remember our shared humanity • Value both the process and its results • Look for guidance within the community as well as outside it

  17. Unique Private Sector Engagement

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  24. The Principles of the World Café • Clarify the Context  • Create Hospitable Space  • Explore Questions That Matter  • Connect Diverse Perspectives  • Encourage Each Person's Contribution  • Listen Together for Patterns, Insights and Deeper Questions  • Share Collective Discoveries • www.theworldcafe.com

  25. Quote • “The only goal worth talking about is transforming the current school system so that large-scale, sustainable, continuous reform becomes built in.” • The Moral Imperative of School Leadership ~ Michael Fullan

  26. Jim Collins- Good to Great • His research is essential a story of passion, focus, inquiry, and action collectively pursued. • Three themes: • Disciplined People • Disciplined Thought • Disciplined Action

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