SPEB Community Learning Conference #1: Discover, Dream, co-Design & Deliver

This event registration is ONLY for the clock hours for the event.

The goal of this conference is to bring families, youth, and educators together from across the region to build transformative relations and engage in cross-cultural and racial equity conversations that promote capacity for actions. This 2-part conference is founded in:

Self & Community Everyday Advocacy
Cultural/ Identity Responsiveness & Sustainability
Engagement, Research & Evaluation
Systems Thinking

Part 1: Virtual

(0.5 hour prior to Part 2)

Watch a chosen spotlighted video and reflect on/process guiding questions we will engage with during our part 2 in person session.
Purpose:

To spark reflection and build learning context and setting through a chosen video and guiding questions.
To Engage with Learning Context/ Setting: Receive a link to video/agenda and guiding questions
To Draw out/ layout (information/ experiences/advocacy journey) through content connected to our and brought forth by our communities
To Inviting reflection to bring subject matter/ lived experiences into our in-person conversations.

Outcome: Connect with similar content/message and themes. Setting the foundation to engage in Part 2’s community learning exchange and co-design workshops.

Part 2: In-person

Learning Exchange & Moving Toward Action

(5.5 hours in person on Saturday, 12/3/22 )

Come together and engage with questions that allow us to: Discover, Dream, co-Design, & Deliver actions by co-creating what works for our communities and moving towards advocating/leadership opportunities.
Purpose:

To move our learning into deep conversations about our advocacy/learning using identified collective learning around themes and conversations; engage in co-design workshops geared towards actionable items.
Engage in Learning Exchanges: Centering and strengthening families by using the Community Cafe Model to build authentic and meaningful relationships and nurture shared power among families, youth, and educators through their learning exchanges and beyond.

Structure: Inviting/ Facilitating Learning Exchange (Perspectives, Experiences and Ideas)

Dyad Conversations: Guiding Questions
Language based small group conversation using guiding questions
Whole Group Reflects & Shares (Harvest): to connect individual and collective conversational learning and engage in whole group discussions on thematic conversational outcomes and co-design processes.

Outcome: Connect experiences/stories/journey, ideas, and to actionable items through the co-design process (design and develop tools, practices, processes, and other solutions) to influence the development of the future learning and capacity building within our Community Learning Conference and systems change advocacy/work.