Getting Started with Forming Communities: Facilitated whole group discussions with planning templates
Workshop Session 2
Brief Abstract
Facilitated small group discussions with planning templates
- Guided thinking regarding value, opportunities and needs for forming communities
- 5 principles of effective collective impact (common agenda, mutually reinforcing activities, shared measurement systems, effective communication, & administrative support)
- Exploring potential community themes: How should we organize ourselves?
- By Industry Sectors (e.g. Manufacturing, IT, Healthcare, Energy, etc.)
- By Program Strategies (e.g. Career Pathways, stacked/latticed credentials; student support services)
- By Pedagogical Strategies (e.g. Evidence-Based Design; Online and technology-enabled learning; competency-based education; prior learning assessment)
- By Partnership Strategies (e.g. Strategic Alignment with the Workforce System and Other Stakeholder, Employer engagement with sectors)
- By Other Strategies
- Action Item: Identify Community Themes
- Action Item: Define mission and principles for communities (larger scale)
- Action Item: Defining what SkillsCommons and other partnersneed to bring to the table
- Conclude with discussion planning the next community meeting at 2:30pm