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Community Engagement for Collective Impact: Lessons From Alaska
Karen Pittman
Monday, October 13, 2014
People who run collective impact efforts say one of their toughest tasks is keeping community engagement going beyond the "summits" where everyone gets fired up. What does it mean to keep communities engaged in the mission that they've signed on for? Why is it so hard to do this well?
Spreading Collective Impact Across a Nation
Kiley Bednar
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
I’ve spent much of this year helping people learn collective impact strategies in communities around the United States, but last week I did some learning myself – by seeing how collective impact is done in the country of Honduras.
A Mom Gets on Board with "Let the Teens Sleep"
Stephanie Malia Krauss
Thursday, September 18, 2014
This week I attended a conference that changed my mind about when the kids in my community should get out of bed and start school.
I wasn’t thinking about sleep when I went to the annual symposium of the Ohio Adolescent Health Partnership (OAHP). I went to give a keynote address and spend time with several hundred really remarkable health and youth workers.
Corralling Collaborations
Karen Pittman
Friday, September 12, 2014
“In any given week, you could go to three meetings and hear the same report three times.”
“Too many people are coming to us with too many asks.”
A Clarion Call for Education Renewal
Karen Pittman
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
I love Citizen Schools. I have from the first time I heard Eric Schwarz talk about the idea almost two decades ago. Eric, the founder of Citizen Schools, has a new book coming out that shows us why we should all pay more attention: The Opportunity Equation: How Citizen Teachers Are Combating the Achievement Gap in America's Schools.