Creating & Supporting New Leaders in Non-School Programs-Tipping Point
Author: Daniel Bassill
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I wrote about this on March 10, at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2019/03/developing-new-leadership-pipeline.html
Then again on March 20 at https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/2019/03/tipping-point-growing-and-supporting.html
A Tipping Point is an action, if implemented, shift and entire movement in a desired direction.
Eternity is in love with the creations of time.
Why don’t we do this? The internship movement is a partial response to this, but a terribly incomplete one fraught with the potential for misuse, in fact already being abused.
Might want to work on the “pipeline” metaphor. Reminds me HR lingo that emphasizes people as resources first and everything else a distant second.
If kids live in high poverty many of these supports are not naturally available and must be made available through the efforts of non profit organizations created for that purpose.
A university could set up a program that reaches k-12 youth in its area and supports them with university students serving as volunteers in many different roles. As students take what they are learning back to classroom discussions, and share with others, they create a learning environment.
This is the game changer. Non-profits depend on an inconsistent flow of resources to do their work well. If resource providers were educated on where, why, and what they could do, as undergrads, and supported as alumni, many could learn to be proactive, and on-going, in their support of programs where other alumni are in staff and leadership roles.
What knowledge, if learned over a period of formal schooling years, and continually learned as life-long learners, would motivate people to proactively support existing programs, or help new ones form where needed? Or would help leaders of existing programs constantly learn and improve what they do?
This list, and the other, can be expanded by others who join this conversation, and by people who might set up this curriculum on a college campus. I’ve just listed some of the skills I wish I had learned in college and that I still am trying to learn today.
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Non-school, volunteer-based tutor, mentor and learning programs have much potential, but there is no place where future leaders, and future supporters, are learning all they need to know, so they come into their careers better prepared, and go through their careers, better supported.
This graphic is intended to stimulate thinking about this.
I posted question asking if there was a list of universities teaching undergrads ways to support digital learning, affinity groups, etc. One response was “it would be a short list”. See https://twitter.com/NomadWarMachine/status/1104470287003848704
Putting all of these ideas on one slide makes it very difficult to read and understand.
I put it on NowComment to invite others to help unpack the meaning and communicate it with multiple slides or via multiple types of digital media.
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