Goals:
Plan Youth Engagement work - Develop ideas for a 3 Year Plan
Establish leadership, diversify roles on projects
Build personal connections between members
Pre-work
Rhode Island Civic Education - slide deck summarizing the RI coalition’s progress
Abby Lee blog post - a student’s perspective on the RI coalition and access to civic education
Short review of youth work in RI
Kristina Pires, Executive Director, Generation Citizen; Abby Lee, Rhode Island Civic Learning Coalition
Prework -
Rhode Island Civic Education - slide deck summarizing the RI coalition’s progress, for review in advance
Guiding Question for participants to focus on as they review the material: What elements should MCLC focus on?
Discussion of questions and ideas raised in the prework on what Kristina has shared
Findings on Youth Perspectives of School Civic Learning
Natalie Sew, Equity and Engagement Fellow, Democratic Knowledge Project
Presentation on results from research
Student representation
Sean Simonini, Founder, Ahemd Othman, a student representative on the Wakefield School Committee, and other representatives from MA Assoc of Student Reps, MASR