Center participates in National Thought Leaders Gathering: “The Role of Public Education in Society”
Members of the Center for Ethical Leadership staff and Board will join 30 other thought leaders and journalists on September 22-25, 2011 at the Highlander Retreat Center in Tennessee.
Invitees represent multiple entry points into issues of public education, community-based leadership development, youth voice, social justice, and journalism. The dialogue will center on questions such as:
- What is the narrative of education that serves us well?
- What messaging and partnerships are possible?
- How can we bring journalists into issue-based conversations?
- What is the role of journalism in shaping a narrative about education? In what ways are journalists agents of change?
- How can we become proactive rather than reactive to forces trying to destroy public education?
- What is the story of education that elevates voices from inside the system? From community?
- What primary strategies make sense? What new models/approaches to our work are required?
- What does it mean for education to be the next civil rights issue?
- What do these educational issues look like in 10, 20 or 50 years? Where are we heading? What are we building? What kind of society are we creating and what’s the role of education?
