EduCon 2.9

‘Real Talk with Emerging Leaders’ will be a dynamic, energetic, and insightful conversation driven by participants in the room. The purpose of this session is to harvest the collective wisdom of people new to the labor movement; our emerging leaders. They will discover ways to transform our unions and public school system toward the values of equity, inclusion, and diversity. This session will utilize a World Café model from the Art of Hosting. World Café got its name because it imitates a café setting where clusters of small groups are engaging in conversations about the issues that matter to them. It is an ideal way to find out what a community is thinking and feeling about a topic. Participants will thoughtfully dialogue based on a series of purposeful questions. After each round, a host will remain at the table to hold the space, while the other participants join new spaces for fresh conversations. In this way, the threads of the various discussions are woven together. If the next generations of emerging leaders are to truly champion the transformative change we need in our public school system, then we begin with some Real Talk.