World Cafés

1. World Cafés A process for conversations

2. Café Etiquette • Focus on what matters • Contribute your/our thinking • Speak your mind and heart • Listen to understand • Link and connect ideas • Play, write, doodle on the “tablecloths” • Harvest collective wisdom • Have Fun!

3. Round One • Six café groups –6 to 7 people per table • At your café table • Introduce yourselves • Select—Elect a Table Host • Discuss the first question:

4. ROUND ONE Explain to your café buddies what you gained from your engagement experience this semester CAFÉ ETIQUETTE • Focus on what matters • Contribute your/our thinking • Speak your mind and heart • Listen to understand • Link and connect ideas • Play, write, doodle on the “tablecloths” • Harvest collective wisdom • Have Fun!

5. ROUND TWO • Table hosts stay at table • Others…pollinate knowledge… • Keep same question: Share what was gained from your engagement experience this semester (community level)

6. ROUND THREE What makes for a quality community engagement project? CAFÉ ETIQUETTE • Focus on what matters • Contribute your/our thinking • Speak your mind and heart • Listen to understand • Link and connect ideas • Play, write, doodle on the “tablecloths” • Harvest collective wisdom • Have Fun!

7. ROUND FOUR How has your engagement experience helped you to become a better …student, …citizen, …teacher?

8. Sharing…Questions…Comments GBNP, White Pine County

9. Why Community Engagement

10. A Civically Engaged Person… • Recognizes him or herself as a member of a larger social fabric • Considers social problems to be part of his or her own problem • Is skilled, willing and able to take action when needed • Has the confidence to know that their participation will make a difference

11. Why All The Fuss…? • Last 30 years… rising DISENGAGEMENT • 25% less likely to vote • 35% less likely to attend public meetings • Disparity of engagement wider among disadvantaged youth…and the gap continues to widen… • Schools appear to be exacerbating inequality…not providing equal civic preparation to students in most need.

12. Why focus efforts on youth? • Disconnecting at larger rate. • Less trusting of fellow citizens. • Less likely to feel sense of responsibility with citizenship. • Less knowledgeable about process of politics. • Less likely to vote. • Less likely to be aware of current events. • Less likely to participate in community organizations. • Less likely to work collectively with others to address community problems. (Galston 2001, DelliCarpini 2000, Levine 2007)

13. Good News about Youth… • They are more tolerant; culturally, racially and politically than previous generations. • Patriotic • Idealistic • Inventing and using novel forms of social/digital media for civic engagement.

14. How Does Nevada Compare? Volunteering in America Report (2008 & 2007), Corporation for National and Community Service

15. Developing capable citizens Teachers have a tremendous impact on youth civic skill ability (Torney-Purta and Amadeo 2003). Civic habits are formed from the early teens through early twenties (DelliCarpini 2000). Teacher confidence and attitude has a significant influence on student’s engagement and aptitude Work to bridge the civic engagement gap in your school, community and out-of-school program.

16. Apply Best Practices • Discuss Current Events • Discuss issues in an open classroom environment • Interact with civic role models • Learn about the community and options for response • Engage in simulations • Service Learning • Build student confidence one-step-at-a-time