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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Greetings one and all,
Excited to see the progress in your courses. Please become a learning community by using the blog as a place to give feedback ideas etc. I made comments in some of your group posts to try to spur convo. Huge shout out to Alex for her feedback to "The Propaganda of Culture" class course description.  - This is the kind of depth that we are going for with each other.
A couple of overall thoughts:
1. Course titles: Most are long and do not clearly include a global issue (or the global) or an art form(s) or Cultures. The exception is the Cultures of Migration course. While Cultures is broader than art - it includes art and their course title includes a global issue as well. Queer Liberation also includes both (global issue: queer liberation + art: zines - however it is very long!) So, Propaganda, Queer Liberation and Connecting the Dots groups, please shorten (while including global issue and art forms or cultures) Put yourself in the mindset of a rising HS senior.
2. Course descriptions: These should be one paragraph. What are students going to study/do/create. How will they do it. Why is your global issue(s) important and relevant locally? 
3. Lesson Plan: The only actual lesson plan that I find as a google doc is for the Cultures of Migration group. It is a great template and allows all of us to make comments on the side of the document. I see that Queer Liberation is well on the way to creating a lesson plan - it is worthy of taking a look as well.
4. Posting: Speak to your "fellow" facilitators. There are no mistakes only shared community. And get help! Shareef is awesome: more than technical consultant he cares about this stuff! Contact him if you hit a snag with posting, uploading etc. (I do!) Send him course description, draft lesson plan.
5. Blog vs Email: We are trying to live in the blog but if you send email, cc Shareef, Vesna and me.
6. Tick Tock: We are getting close. Vesna and I are here - in the blog, on the phone, email.
7. Gratitude: Thanks for being on this journey and growing these seedling ideas into fab classes.

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