Tri-Community Conversation on Education Part B

Part A of our conversation was a one hour conversation on the Provincial level following the Ministry of Education Local Conversation Kit.

Part B is a local Inspiring Education Conversation for the Tri-Communities of the City of Spruce Grove, County of Parkland, and Town of Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada. It has been developed by applying the ministry of education guidelines (Items quoted are from the conversation kit) to facilitate a local conversation. It is hoped that the dialogue started on May 21st 2009 will continue until 2029 and beyond so that we will have the best education possible for current and future generations. In addition, we want to stimulate other ongoing dialogues in the communities of Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, and Parkland County. Part B is an online dialogue with the possibilities of face to face dialogue in the future.

Activity 1: Parental Involvement Past

Think of what role parents have played in your own or someone else's education and make comments on the experience. .

Go to Educating Your Child Prenatal to Post Secondary and pick an area of parental involvement and a time period in a child's life (e.g. Preschool) for your experience. Use name/url to indicate the area and time period.

Activity 2: Parental Involvement in Education 2029

Comment on how parents could ideally be involved in Education in 2029.

Go to Educating Your Child Prenatal to Post Secondary and pick an area of parental involvement and a time period in a child's life (e.g. Preschool) for your comment. Use name/url to indicate the area and time period.

ACTIVITY 3 NOTES – Table Activity: Conversation on Parental Involvement

For fact to face dialogue

"Facilitator questions to participants:
· What words, phrases or images do you remember hearing or seeing?
· What did you hear that we had in common?"

For Online Dialogue and recording face to face dialogue:

Review comments to this post and activities 1 and 2 and make a comment to this post in response to the question asked. "What did we have in common?" Make separate comments on each concept you had in common.

Use the name/url to identify the concept you had in common (check what others have listed for concepts so that you could use the same concept to identify your comment).

Activity 4: Community Dilogues on Education

If the Tri-community is to create the educational environment we have envisioned, then what kind of community dialogue(s) do we need to come up with a strategic plan to do this.

Use name/url to identify the type of dialogue needed and then make comment on how that dialogue should look.



Activity 5: I mail - Inspiring Education 2029

You have an opportunity to send an “I-mail” (“I” for inspiring) message to someone of your choice about getting involved in an Inspiring Education Dialogue 2029.

In a comment to this post look back at the results you expect to happen from the dialogue you participated in today and inspire your reader to participate in a dialogue on education in 2049.

Identify your comment by using name/url to address your comment from: a grandparent, parent, community member, etc. and to: a student, parent, community member etc.

Optional: As a group make a comment summarizing your inspiring messages. Identify your group using name/url.

Optional: Blogger networks and ongoing dialogues

The May 21st 2009 could be a one time event or it could lead to an ongoing Tricom Dialogue on Education as well as other community dialogues and networks.

Make your comments about using blogger and the potential for local dialogue and networks.
Use name/url to identify what you are commenting on, then make your comment(s).

If you want to be updated on SGCHS school council and/or the Tri-Community Network click on the links and subscribe to their blogs. To learn more see Towards Generative (Deliberative) Community Dialogue

Other Commuity dialogues

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Dialog on Your Bright Future Survey. The survey is past but comments to the survey can be made to the blog as part of an ongoing dialogue with the City. Click on link above to follow the survey questions or go directly to the following posts, which have significance for education.
You can comment on participating in Inspiring Heritage: A Tri-Community Dialogue which will be set up this summer by our Canada Summer Jobs student see Spruce Grove, Stony Plain & West Edmonton Positions 09

A dialogue on common community values could be started based on the following posts:

Make comments to the above posts or email if you have an interest or notice inappropriate comments.

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