Last week I was invited to participate in the Connected Educators event: Systems Convening in a Complex Landscape.?This all came about following the?Cutting Edge BEtreat workshop?in Grass Valley California. More about the workshop itself when I get to my backlog of draft blog posts!
I offered to prepare a bit of a summary of the session. I thought it would be a good way for me to dig in a little further on this topic because the draft chapter shared by Bev Wenger-Trayner during the workshop completely grabbed my attention.
The above image is my first attempt at graphic recording on an iPad. I've doodled here and there, but never actually created a summary, saved it, then shared it. Any other graphic recording work I've done was with paper, markers and pastels. For this I used Sketchbook Pro. I need lots more practice, but was happy that I managed figure out a few things! Layers are now my friend, and I'm about to purchase a new pen. :-)?
Summary
Panelists and Facilitators?
Format
- 90-minutes, WebEx
- Conversational style, maximize time for Q&A
- Open invitation, no cost
Agenda
- Overview: learning landscapes of practice?
- Overview: system conveners in landscapes of practice
- Panelists: briefly discuss one thing that resonates in own context
- Concluding summary
Participation
There were approximately 19 participants. As with any open web conference the numbers went up and down.Roles and interests of participants included:
- Technical Assistance Provider/ Consultant?
- researchers, consultant, learner ?(I'm not entirely sure!)?
- Technical Assistant provider working with states and national organizations?
- Learning theorists and learning consultants?
- Education Marketing Manager with Cisco?
- director of professional learning - higher ed in BC
- high school teacher director of a dropout prevention initiative for the Office of Special Education in the Michigan Department of Education?
- WestEd, working at schoolsmovingup?
- 21st Century Digital Learning Environments (a design consultancy) - Narrative Design?
- Curator for the NROC Project's Connected PD?
- Senior Associate w Natoma Group, consult on Future of Learning,?Participatory design?
- build designs that link Education to Real World participatory designs (Michigan)?
- developing National Center for Literacy Education
- convener?
- the characteristics of 'boundary spanners'?
- presenters' and participants' real-life experiences sustaining communities of practice
- system convening how we might benefit from mutual sharing of our experiences and stories
What popped?
Word used most frequently during session:
Characteristics of a system convener:- strategic
- upbeat
- patient
- W I D E ?vision
- passionate
- Find ways to have meaningful encounters across boundaries
- Trust in what we know
- Keep message consistent but adaptable
- Focus on the students (not on the organizations)
- Honour the work that came before
- See how to continue to the work TOGETHER
- The convener is often the only one seeing the vision
- What is consequential or relevant is open for negotiation
- Go at other people's pace
- Never give up!
- Helping people to reframe what they are already doing/ have invested in in terms of the vision you have for how the system could look in the future
- Negotiating and understanding the different viewpoints
- Telling the stories -?aspirational narratives -- ?robust and also emergent
- Reconfiguring spaces across the landscape (rather than creating something new)
- Developing leadership among different groups (rather than being the leader)
Conclusion
We need a community of systems conveners!Source: http://mywebbedfeat.blogspot.com/2012/09/system-conveners-in-education.html
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