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Community colleges play a crucial role in our higher education system. According to a Gallup report this year, Americans express greater confidence in two-year schools compared to four-year institutions. As market demands continue to evolve, it is increasingly important for community colleges to thrive and adapt.

Join us on Wednesday. Rewilding Anna Craft’s legacy: A plurality of past, present and future-making creativities.’   When Anna Craft died on 11 August 2014, at the age of 52, a visionary light went out in the international community of creativities research. Anna’s most powerful philosophical, conceptual and applied fields of research remain at the core of education for teachers and schools today. From coining the term “possibility thinking”, to distinguishing ‘big C’ and ‘little c’ creativities, and the roles of ‘teaching creatively’ and ‘teaching for creativity’, Anna invited us to re-think how to fuel quiet revolutions. In this talk I explore how Anna Craft’s legacy and vision is giving rise to new discourses about the co-existence and mutual co-production of human-human and human-nonhuman and more-than-human creativities. I will celebrate Anna’s legacy connecting the mapping of Progression in Creative Learning (PiCL), to recent methodological and pedagogical innovations for understanding how ‘rewilding’ can be (re-)conceptualised, practiced, and connected across education sectors. These instances of (re-)(con)figuring education, as a possibility for uncertain futures, speak to Anna’s future-making creativities and of Anna, our friend.   You are a gift, nowhere near, nowhere far, a re-former, a transformer. In writing, we hear your heart. https://lnkd.in/eK8jpmaG?

The Beeby era begins. 🦅 Alumni share their successes. 🏆 And One Day for UWL is almost here. 🎈 Read these stories and more in the latest issue of the UWL Alumni & Friends Foundation Lantern! 🔗

I graduated from Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals, a course run by the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement! In this eight-week course I explored core frameworks and vocabulary around community purpose, strategic programming, and community member participation. <https://lnkd.in/gu2JsMH4>

Recently, I got to sit down with some of my favorite movement leaders to discuss the threat to our democracy and planet posed by Project 2025—a comprehensive plan devised by a coalition of conservative think tanks, spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation. Their objective is to distort the federal government and its policies to align with anti-democratic, authoritarian conservative ideology. For those just getting familiar with Project 2025 and the very real threat it poses, I urge you to watch this video, which captures some of the highlights from my longer conversation with Marisa Franco of Mijente; George Goehl of Addition Collective; and Maurice Mitchell of Working Families Party. We live in complex, challenging times and so much is on the line. Our best bet for a livable future is organized solidarity. It's our strongest tool to understand threats, refine strategies, and envision a country animated by love for our planet and the belief that all life is precious. To support our beloved community in navigating this moment, I’m thrilled to announce Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Summer School: Building A People and Planet-Centered Future. 🌍✊ From now through October, MCF Summer School will feature in-person and virtual sessions with movement organizers, partners, and scholars discussing multiracial solidarity, the government we want, how we hold powerful forces accountable, and more. MCF Summer School goals are to: ➡ Get clear about how we can defeat fascism ➡ Plant seeds for a bold, progressive future, and ➡ Support organizing to win a better world There is no better time to come together and build a better future. Join our next session, "The State of Student Protest," on June 13 at 1 PM ET. Register now at the link in the comments. arrow ⬇

Love this - the time to learn how to work in coalition & solidarity for true multiracial democracy is now! This learning series is a key step to such a process.

Wondering what you can do and how you can contribute in this moment … check this out!

Looking forward to being part of this Crucial Conversation next Thursday 31st October. If you're interested in responsible leadership then do join us. I will be one of the conversation starters, and the magic will happen in the breakout conversations I'm sure. We'll be exploring questions around power, the meta-crisis and systemic transformations needed for a healthy future. Big challenges call for big questions and deep conversations... #leadership #ethicalbusiness #csr #regenerativeleadership

When we asked Fabian, a Vocal Justice Youth Participant, what he would say to teachers who are considering joining the VJ Teacher Fellowship, this is what he said. So, do you have a group of students who are interested in changing the world? Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gk-4UrM7

Thank you for doing this, Herzog Foundation! There are profound theological and pedagogical reasons to at least be asking these questions. Sure, it blows up much of the way we think about traditional school. But in general, doesn't the assumptions that come from starting with the gospel as our first premise also blow up a lot of assumptions! There's enough data out there about the pedagogical effects on students and their capacities; it provides more time for teachers to prep and to stay sharp throughout the week; it creates more space for recognizing the importance of the family; (if Monday is the day "off,") it encourages greater participation in and enjoyment of our corporate worship. I could go on and on. It's part of the reason why it's one of the first podcast episodes I put together for RenewEd. 24 minute listen here: https://lnkd.in/gaRDXAKk