August 12, 2018 Education Committee Report

Post date: Aug 12, 2018 6:42:51 PM

The Education Committee:

1. Continues to assess the alignment of the Education Committee Strategic Plans and Goals with the Board-assigned goals in 2013; reviewing each goal and objective to determine: (a) what has been achieved/completed (b) what is ongoing/in progress, and (c) recommendations for going forward with additional goals. Development of this review or assessment is progressing.

2. Has made significant progress in moving Education Committee files from personal PCs and personal google drives into AVP USA Google team drives. Files in team drives are more secure, and Committee members have easier access to Committee resources, documents, and decisions.

3. Reviewed and discussed strategic plans to improve one-day Education workshops at national gatherings.

4. Has begun planning for the National Gathering in San Francisco, having had an initial discussion with Toby and Alice about continuation of the world café format, a one-day Education workshop on AVP and somatic learning, setup for the Education Committee meetings, breakout sessions, and the Gathering Committee’s arrangement for a pre-conference workshop on Aiki (possibly a 4-day sequential format preceding the Gathering, or a pre-and-post Gathering format).

5. Discussed ways to connect with inside facilitators who will pilot new and existing AVP activities/exercises and agendas in prison workshops. As part of evaluating the material that is included in USA manuals, all material needs to work in prison workshop settings.

Betty McEady and Katherine Smith, Co-Chairs