Please Join Tiverton’s New Superintendent at the “World Café” Community Forum!
Please choose any of the following dates:
Tuesday, August 5 (4:00 PM) at Pocasset Elementary School
Wednesday, August 6 (4:00 PM) at Tiverton High School
Tuesday, August 12 (4:00 PM) at Tiverton Middle School
Wednesday, August 13 (4:00 PM) at Ranger Elementary School
We hope you can make it to this meeting with Tiverton’s new Superintendent. As a part of his “listening and learning” goals, Mr. Haskins will host an interactive experience to learn more from parents, students and community members about what they see as the strengths, challenges, and values of the Tiverton School District.
Please RSVP by clicking here. Adults and children are welcome!
What is the World Café?
The World Café is a good, simple process for bringing people together around questions that matter.
It is founded on the assumption that people have the capacity to work together, no matter who they are.
The Café process has been used in many different cultures, among many different age groups, for many different purposes, and in many different types of communities and organizations.
It doesn’t matter who the people are – the process works. It works because people can work well together, can be creative and caring and insightful when they’re actively engaged in meaningful conversations around questions that count.
Café conversations are designed on the assumption that people already have within them the wisdom and creativity to confront even the most difficult challenges.
The World Café can make a special contribution when the goal is the focused use of dialogue to foster productive relationships, collaborative learning, and collective insight.
taken from The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
by Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café Community
What will we do during the World Café?
In tables of four, participants hold conversations related to the question asked by the facilitator.
In each conversation, individual contributions are focused on the questions. People build upon one another’s ideas- everyone contributes from their own perspective to create new understanding.
As people make new connections, sparks of insight begin to emerge that no one would
have alone.Participants move to new tables for each question, with the exception of one participant at each table who serves as the host.
As people share insights between tables, the “magic in the middle” and a sense of whole become more accessible.
At each table you will find a paper “tablecloth” and markers, which can be used to write, record, draw and doodle. Participants might link ideas and contributions this way.
It is important to “mix it up” in a World Café by choosing to sit at tables with people you don’t know. This way, we are better able to build a greater sense of community as we work through the questions.
An invitation to the World Café is an invitation to a community.
We look forward to learning with you!