Background deck on the 2012 10-year visioning process for the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership.

1. Mapping the
Next Years 10
Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
Kick-Off Meeting
March 8, 2012
Presented by the
Alliance for Arts
Learning Leadership>

2. How can we collectively
transform public
education
through the arts
to create a better
future for everyone?

3. How will we answer this
question over the next
six months together?

4. Goals and Principles

5. Goal #1: Co-create a Shared Vision
Co-create a shared and
unified vision for how
we can make a collective
impact to transform public
education over the next 10 years.
This is a vision of what we really want, not what we
think is possible due to current constraints.
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6. Goal #2: Catalyze Strategic
Conversations
Catalyze a set of strategic
conversations with
stakeholder groups to
discuss mutually
reinforcing ways to realize this vision.
The groups would include those already convened in
the Alliance governance structure as well as other
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stakeholder groups (CAA, local arts
councils, teachers, etc).
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7. Goal #3: Create Clarity and
Well-Crafted Language
Get clear on what arts
learning and integration
bring to confident,
enthusiastic, capable students and healthy,
well-connected communities.
Develop well-crafted language so that we communicate
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effectively with the broader community.
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8. Don’t Start from Honor People’s Time
Scratch • Find the balance between invitation
and ask
• Build on previous work
• Shameless self-interest
• Use the language and frameworks
already within the community
• Leverage existing structures
Design Principles
Hold Structures Lightly Empower Others to Be
• Offer guidance, and encourage Bold
boldness
• Offer guidance, and encourage
• Permeable boundaries boldness
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10. The Mapping Process

11. “I believe we can change the world if we
start listening to one another again.
Simple, honest, human conversation.
Not mediation, negotiation, problem-
solving, debate, or public meetings.
Simple, truthful conversation where we
each have a chance to speak, we each
feel heard, and we each listen well.”
—Meg Wheatley, Turning to One Another

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13. Catalyze strategic
conversations.
Self-organized, strategic
conversations at existing
and new meetings using
Conversations-In-A-Box Leave a trail.
as guidance. Key takeaways from
conversations are
shared in an online
stream.
Synthesize.
Volunteers listen and
synthesize what
they hear and
feed summaries
and provocative
questions back
into the
community.
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14. Overall Engagement Strategy
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15. Strategic Framework
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16. Group Identities
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17. Roles Shift Over Time
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18. Relationships Are What Matter
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19. Roadmap
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20. Roles and Responsibilities

22. Design Team
Responsible for iterating
the design of this process
(including Conversations-In-A-Box)
and monitoring the process
as it evolves.
Commitments:
• Weekly check-in call
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• Regularly review design, documents, and feedback
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23. Synthesis Team
Participate and listen,
then summarize and
reflect back.
Commitments:
• Participate in strategic conversations
• Listen to the online stream
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• Monthly face-to-face synthesis meetings
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24. Everybody
Have a meaningful
conversation with people
who matter, and leave a trail.
Commitments:
• Participate in and organize conversations, using
Conversations-In-A-Box as a guide
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• Share your takeaways
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25. At the end of this process, success
would be…
• Alignment, commitment, and enthusiasm around our
identity and our 10-year vision
• Proactive action from Alliance members guided by this
vision
• Individuals supporting each other regardless of
external factors (e.g. policies, structural boundaries,
etc.)
• Stronger muscles for network engagement
• Healthy, growing network
• Greater understanding of and continued work toward
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greater collective impact
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26. Our Requests
• Questions / suggestions?
• Please convene a conversation!
• Please share what you talk about!
• Join the Synthesis Team!
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