Dear SoL Education Partners,

I Hope you are all doing well.  Just wanted to share what’s been happening at Crossroads as a result of all I learned from all of you at the ECW.

We’ve started a strategic visioning process at Crossroads (CCPS).  To engage the parent community, last night we held our first World Cafe.  The event committee used The Art of the Powerful Questions and Theory U (thanks Otto!) to guide the planning.

We had a very simple agenda.  We watched the “Did You Know”  video by Karl Fisch.  If you haven’t seen it, it is definitely worth watching.  Here’s the link.

We then posed the question:  How can CCPS provide the skills, knowledge, flexibility, and innovation needed to prepare our student, our families, and our community to thrive in a rapidly changing, increasingly networked global society?

In spite of miserable cold and rainy weather, we drew about 20% of our parent community.  We officially wrapped up the event at around 8:30PM. The conversations continued informally until well after 9:00 when we finally had to gently move people toward the exits.  It was a wonderful community building event and the insights were invaluable.

Thanks so much for showing me the value of deep conversations and giving me the skills and courage to make this happen.

All the best,