Rough Draft

Use this to check-in, to get people's reactions, to get out of a circular discussion....

Taking turns, each person speaks...

Time...

Rules: good to have rules like no cross-talk...

Listening...

A simple way to record both individual opinions and the sense of the group.

Use color stickers (red, green, blue, purple, brown... stay away from orange and yellow -- too hard to see).

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MOVE THIS TO CHAPTER ONE AND LINK TO IT

My coworkers and I used The Educator's Journey in the Popular Education and Activism Working Group we had in the mid 1990's. I found it helped me better understand my fellow teacher/activists and helped me place my current work as a teacher in the context of my experience. (The activity is universal in popular education. I first learned it from Joao Paulo and Eleanora Castano Ferreira in a workshop for teachers at the old ILGWU Worker-Family Education Program.)

Resistance is fertile.

By Matt Noyes (and participants in the National Carpenters conference.)

ADJUSTMENTS COMMITTEE HERE

REWRITE THIS AS A CASE STUDY WITH WHAT WOULD YOU DO TYPE QUESTIONS

(Like much good popular education, this case was the result of painstaking collaborative planning and a spontaneous rebellion of the participants. Thanks to carpenters Michael Cranmer, Susan Cranmer, and Ken Little, to activist writer Dan LaBotz, to Carl Biers, Jane Latour, and Andy Piascik of AUD, and to Mike Orrfelt, popular educator, journalist, carpenter and building trades activist.)

Summary:

By Matt Noyes in collaboration with Carl Biers, Jane Latour, Mike Orrfelt, and Andy Piascik.

By Matt Noyes, from El Camino Logico in Alforja, Volume I.

Not everyone has experience planning actions and democratic, collaborative planning requires some method. This activity can help members of a group work together and develop a shared plan.

Summary:
In this activity, participants have to organize several sets of cards – each representing one part of a planning process -- that form a logical order, or do they…?

Grievances – complaints about workplace conditions – are a central focus of day to day trade unionism. There is a lot of educational material available on the various types of grievances and how to handle them – how to identify grievances, how to investigate, prepare, and present grievances, arbitration, etc. (See Schwartz guide, TDU book in Spanish and English, IBT Turn it Around, etc.)

Ira Shor's book When Students Have Power is a study of a course he taught at Staten Island College, CUNY.

There are several techniques that I have used in my work that are not full blown activities, just tools that you can use as you work.