Generative Community
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Allison Nedrig
The problem was that our community lacked engagement.
Many teachers (especially those who had been through attempts at creating a new school community before) found the idea to be busywork and not a productive use for their time
Read more about my professional example on my Gdoc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCrDvGAebOTcWXfONeG7n3zis3WXkBvLWhU2ZNea8tI/edit?usp=sharing
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Allison Nedrig
People in Wilber are very proud of their heritage and celebrate it once a year at the beginning of August with a Czech Days Festival.
Get the specifics of my personal example on my Gdoc;
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCrDvGAebOTcWXfONeG7n3zis3WXkBvLWhU2ZNea8tI/edit?usp=sharing
Shawn Hellwege - It can be seen like a think tank or an incubator of ideas.
One generative community that I can think of is young men and women who belong to the United States Military Academy at West Point--a two hundred+ year old institution, with the same traditions and values since the early 19th century!--brendan connelly
generations of social groups with a shared set of reproduced values--brendan connelly
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Working as a professional learning community with a set of norms, to help develop the best strategies to appropriately assess students over a period of time
Working on a team to evaluate students with suspected disabilities, and implementing individualized education plans
Beach Life: Surf, Boating, beaches, fireworks-This helps the community thrive, grow, and be sustainable during peak seasons.Brendan
Much like the cultural heritage example I wrote about!
Biographies
Shawn Hellwege
Brittney Martin
Short definition
Chase Blazek
Chase Blazek - Kind of like an area of group apprenticeship, like an old blacksmith where one would train with other masters to improve your skills.
Chase Blazek - 6AM Monday Morning Men's Group - Hot coffee and priceless fellowship with men of all ages and walks of life striving to serve God.
Chase Blazek - UNL's IEP faculty and staff: These teachers are constantly re-devoting themselves to their students and finding new ways to become better English teachers from their colleagues.
Brittney Martin- Generative Community is like an electricity generator: Provides energy to create something better or more meaningful
Chase Blazek
Generative communities are “communities generating a vocational way of life in members”. - Benedictine Institute
Brittney Martin- Generative (creating), community (group of people) a group of people that work together for a common good
Brittney Martin- Math task force: working to create better understanding for teachers within the district about math teaching
Brittney Martin- Quilting to network and get to know people, donate to charities
This is my husband and I headed to the College World Series baseball tournament. I enjoy working out (I teach fitness classes) and enjoying family and friends. I recently moved into a new house, still getting organized!! :)
Leslie Elbe
My write up: Link Title
Leslie Elbe- A group of people who share a common interest/goal and looks forward rather than use what worked in the past. Understands that change needs to occur for the community to last in the future.
Leslie Elbe-PBiS district team works together to spread common practices to all schools based on what works at individual schools. Each member is concerned with providing the best positive behavior supports and environments.
Leslie Elbe- College organization: University of Iowa Dance Marathon. Members are all college kids who raise over a million dollars each year for children and families going through cancer at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.
Leslie Elbe-It's like legos, all of the individual pieces fit together to make something bigger and better.
Generative community is a community that helps their members to develop their social and intellectual skills in a specific society. - Carolina Julio https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5bbXFzIOu6Hp0nbytPFG33UFS9OLIk35_b5e1dZl2A/edit?usp=sharing
I am part of Colombian organization at UNL. We do cultural activities to show our culture to UNL community. - Carolina Julio
Kristin Duke
Shawn Hellwege- I thought that a quote from this article was good "Generative communities embody a spirit of fun, diligence, and respect, and, when enmeshed in a larger community, form synergistic relationships with their counterparts that collectively lead to healthy dynamics for both global society and the ecosphere"
Shawn Hellwege- For my professional example, I discussed meetups for programmers and how we get together to grow and learn from each other
Kristin Duke - As I understand generative community today, I understand it as a group of individuals who work to support and nurture each other in their common goals. I believe a generative community recognizes that growth and continual improvement are dynamic.
Kristin Duke - In February 2016 I joined an international community of quilters who were beginning a year-long, 100-block, sampler project. Social media has allowed this diverse community to flourish beyond the year of the original project. It was wonderful to see the growth and development of individual members of the group as they worked with each other. This is my 100 blocks finished.
Kristin Duke - I described my experience and contribution as a member of a community of graduate students studying education at UNL.
Tyler Schindler- A community that can be reproduced or generated within other settings, with individuals that have similar traits or multiple interactions.
Tyler SchindlerMy name is Tyler Schindler and I am an Agricultural Education Instructor at Omaha Bryan. I love my job as I advise the the largest FFA Chapter in the state of Nebraska.
Abbey Breinig
Abbey Breinig
I serve as an assistant coach for our girls’ high school team.
The coaches developed a strong top-to-bottom leadership program. It begins with the coaches and captains and works its way down to all of the members of the team, even the 6th grade student managers. The reason this community is so important to me is that we influence these young women on so many levels. Not only do we teach them the importance of embracing the roller coaster of a basketball season, but we also value the importance of taking life’s ups and downs in stride.
Abbey Breinig
One professional community I am a part of is the digital citizenship education team at my high school. As a part of this team, we incorporate new ways to teach our students how to be digitally responsible students. The main reason I selected this community to analyze falls on the fact that the digital world is always changing. As a group, we work together to create lesson plans that we teach to the rest of the faculty.
Tyler Schindler- One professional community I'm apart of is this Nebraska Agricultural Education Assosciation. The main reason for selecting this community was this communities ability of being reproduced in other states as well as creating a model for other CTE areas.
Abbey Breinig
Five conditions of generative community include engaging, discussing, informing, grounding, and connecting
Andrea White-a community that truly respects everyone, they know each other’s strengths care about each others opinions, and isn’t belittled or cast aside. They are able to hold great discussions and everyone is engaged as much as the next person. It is a community that all communities thrive to be.
Tyler Schindler- One brief example of a personal community of mine is my neighborhood. We do neighborhood gardens and also have a rich Hispanic culture. I love the community and learning about its culture!
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Andrea White-one example would be my extended family. We all work really well together and help each other better each other and understand each others strength and weaknesses.
[Generative Community]
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Jolene Pflanz - I was a testing counselor for Nebraska AIDS Project. I provided information and reassurance for those who may have been anxious in that environment as well as gathered information for the Health Dept. and CDC.
Sarah Baker: A group of individuals engaged in achieving a common goal through collaboration, dialogue, inquiry and equal partnership.
Shawn Hellwege; I have yet to figure out how to break a new line so this will be slightly run-on. I thought of Generative Community as a think-tank but with everyone as equal peers and more of a focus on genuine respect. I used the same source as Allison and already felt she defined it really well so I won't go much more into it
Allison Nedrig
I came across a website that I thought had a very clear, concise definition for generative community: Generative communities practice a dialectic of convening and narrating, thereby achieving a state of naturally self-sustaining growth by honoring five discernible conditions of existence: connecting, grounding, informing, discussing, and engaging. (http://www.leadershipthatworks.com/utility/showDocumentFile/?objectID=681)
Read more about how I made sense of the term before finding this website on my Gdoc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WCrDvGAebOTcWXfONeG7n3zis3WXkBvLWhU2ZNea8tI/edit?usp=sharing
Sarah Baker: In my yoga practice, I have found a community that is engaged in achieving stability and peace through breath, movement, and physical wellbeing.
Sarah Baker: My graduating class of music education majors at Nebraska wesleyan university. This group of students was divided in the type of community they wanted, but I still felt that I thrived in the environment.
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Andrea White-One professional example would be the group I worked with during primarily math. WE had a group of 6 girls who worked well together and brought strength and weaknesses to the group .
Carrie Coats
Carrie Coats- A generative community is a group of people creating ideas to better themselves.
Andrea White” Generative communities practice a dialectic of convening an narrating, thereby achieving a state of naturally self sustaining growth by honoring five discernible conditions of existence: connecting, grounding, informing, discussing, and engaging. Respectively, this means that community members know and honor their relationships and value systems, and thus are able to effectively perceive the current state of their community, home in on the most pressing issues they face, and prototype solutions for them.”-
Brittney Martin- "Without a sense of caring, there is no sense of community"
Carrie CoatsLink Title
Carrie Coats- An example in my life would be the rodeo community. I have my immediate family and my rodeo family. The rodeo community will bend over backwards to help anyone out in need.
Carrie Coats- The professional community that I help with is our school's math club. We practice once a week and not only do the students grow, but I do as well.
A metaphor ex: a Reservoir of water established with the purpose of providing for the community. It can add naturally, but must be maintained responsibly by members of the community in order for its use to be optimal and safe.--Brendan
Quote from John Dewey: It is the office of the school environment to balance the various elements in the social environment, and to see to it that each individual gets an opportunity to escape from the limitations of the social group in which he was born, and to come into living contact with a broader environment.
Katie McMullen
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This is a picture of my undergrad graduation in May 2016, I will be graduating again in August with my master's for science teaching, then starting at Northeast as a 9th grade and biology teacher! It has been a really fast 14 months in my program, can't believe I'll already be starting in my own classroom in a month!
Katie McMullen - First one I thought of was Wednesdays after school church when I was younger. We would get bussed over, have snacks, a service, and hang out with friends. Really influenced my growing up.
Katie McMullen
"Generative communities embody a spirit of fun, diligence, and respect, and,
when enmeshed in a larger community, form synergistic relationships with
their counterparts that collectively lead to healthy dynamics for both global
society and the ecosphere"
http://www.leadershipthatworks.com/utility/showDocumentFile/?objectID=681
Katie McMullen - My MAst cohort is an awesome community. We all get along so well personally and professionally and have really grown as educators and learners together. Couldn't have asked for a better group, I just hope we continue to support one another and share ideas going forward.
Theresa Robinson: like a tribal meeting, in a time when communities were humbled enough to acknowledge that no one had an ultimate truth to share with the community but rather understand the advantage of letting everyone share their ideas based on their experiences.
Theresa Robinson: "When we reject that with which we cannot become intimate, our lives are diminished....Teaching and learning are undermined when therapeutic community becomes the norm in education. (Daly)
Theresa Robinson: A generative community is one in which all members feel welcome, listened to, valued, and in which all members are willing to think critically and consider all perspectives and positions-- all for the greater good.
The online communities and the communities with which I am a member on social networks have proven to be an invaluable resource from which I pull inspiration and within which I share ideas and perspectives on our practice.
Theresa Robinson
I'm a member of some great social network communities whose main objective is to engage in critical dialogue about common interests in the hopes of improving ourselves so that others reap the benefits.
Kristin Duke: Even though this quote does not relate directly to community, it resonated with me and made me think about what is important in my relationships with others and with subjects. "But I believe that knowing, teaching, and learning are grounded in sacred soil and that renewing my vocation as a teacher requires cultivating a sense of the sacred" (Palmer). "In the sacred landscape, with its complexities and convolutions, surprise is a constant companion..." (Palmer).
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Kristin Duke: "The hallmark of the community of truth is in its claim that reality is a web of communal relationships, and we can know reality only by being in community with it" (Palmer).
Kristin Duke - "Having education revolve around inquiry requires that the classroom be converted into a community in which friendship and cooperation would be welcomed as positive contributions to a learning atmosphere, rather than be the semi-adversarial and competitive conditions that prevail in too many early childhood classrooms" (Lipman)
Allison Nedrig "Good education may leave students deeply dissatisfied, at least for a while"-Palmer
Allison Nedrig "Having education revolve around inquiry requires that the classroom be converted into a community in which friendship and cooperation would be welcomed as positive contributions to a learning atmosphere."-Lipman
Carolina Julio - “The community of inquiry is in one sense a learning together, and it is therefore an example of the value of shared experience” (Lipman, p. 93)
“[The therapeutic model of a community] makes intimacy the highest value in human relationships, because intimacy is regarded as the best therapy for pain of disconnection”. (Palmer, p. 90)
Sarah Baker: “Community is an outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace, the flowing of personal identity and integrity into the world of relationships.” Palmer
Jolene Pflanz: "The first step toward understanding the community of truth is to understand that community is the essential form of reality......we know reality only by being in community with it ourselves." Palmer
Sarah Baker: In reference to building a school community: “It occurred to me that the educational philosophy of the school should be a dynamic: a synthesis of the school’s resources and the family’s expectations." Ali Michael
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EH-z1-UgvJ8carWemJtC6pSFfykoFHLXzjSrGrsWLn0/edit?usp=sharing
New definitions!--Brendan C
Tyler Schindler:
"To be in the community of truth, we must abide by its norms and procedures, which differ from one field to another, from art history to chemistry to philosophy." Palmer pg 103
"The community of inquiry is in one sense a learning together, and it is therefore an example of the value of shared experience." Lipman pg 93
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Tyler Schindler: I think these two quotes do a good job describing and explaining generative community. Both quotes, in some way, set up a condition that must be met before it can be called a "community".
Abbey Breinig
New Definition - A generative community such as a school, is never satisfied with the status quo and understands that to get the most out of its members, it must continue question the process to find the most favorable outcomes.