What Does Quality Education Look Like On Cortes Island?
Cortes Currents
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Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The next Conversation Cafe asks ‘what does quality and accessible education look like and how do we support it? Colin Funk, President of the Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA), will be the facilitator of this public meeting in the Pioneer Room of Mansons Hall from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Thursday, November 16.
Kate Maddigan, CCEDA’s Economic Development Officer, explained,
“Colin is a skilled facilitator and what he usually starts with is, 'what is your idea of success for whatever it is that we're talking about?' In this case, it's education. 'Give us your visions for success.' And then we usually do a little bit of a review of previous efforts around the topic and the 2018 LEAP report.”
“Education wasn't a focus area in the 2018 LEAP report, but this time it will be.”
“For every focus area, we have maybe four strategic directions. That could be opportunities for skilled work training, continuing education for adults, strong and varied educational options for children, and retention of families with school aged children. Things like that, but maybe some people will come up with much better ones.”
“Then we get into prioritized actions, like what do we need to do to advance those directions. A lot of people usually have really good ideas about what we need to do to get those things off the ground.”
“Manda Aufochs Gillespie will be there as well. She's a really great educational advocate on the island.”
“So that's it in a nutshell. It's only two hours and it's amazing what you can do . I was really impressed with how much we actually accomplished with the small business Conversation Cafe in September.