Wednesday MM

Good Morning!  Here is a post from Andy with an outline for our Open Space Faculty meeting today. 

3:20 - All together in MC:
Brunson's Best
Linnea - STEM Week
Stephanie - tech update
3:45 Break out to Open Space
(Don't forget to use your two feet!)

Session: Recorder/ discussion starter:

1. K-2 and EiE (kits, activities, etc.)
Nicole Lodoño Rm. 4

2. Funding for STEM activities (more, any)
BJ Moore Rm. 8

3. How do I represent Brunson as a STEM school to the community? How do we explain to the larger community what we are doing as a STEM school?
Lauren Saldana Rm. 6

4. How can we decide which smaller challenges will be grade level specific?
Michele Gray Rm. 3

5. How can various careers be emphasized or highlighted through STEM & EiE?
Tanya Grisette Rm. 1


Open space Goals:
Wednesday is our day. We will have a chance to return to this Open Space arena and see what's there. I'm excited for the opportunity to be engaged and energized by our interactions.

Last time we Open Spaced, we discussed in our small groups different topics about STEM. Our facilitator/ recorders posted the notes on the shared drive (S Drive> Open Space Tech.> STEM > topic).  This week we will return to those topics and decide what needs to be done, what will be done, and how it will get done. Plan on attending a session and help make it a meaningful, useful activity.

Again we will:

1- decide what needs to be done

2 - decide what will get done

3 - decide how (give me a name or names) who, when.

Below is a list of guiding principles I found that are helpful

1. Whoever comes is the right people ...reminds participants that they don't need the CEO and 100 people to get something done, you need people who care. And, absent the direction or control exerted in a traditional meeting, that's who shows up in the various breakout sessions of an open-space meeting.

2. Whenever it starts is the right time ...reminds participants that "spirit and creativity do not run on the clock."

3. Wherever it happens is the right place. ...reminds participants that space is opening everywhere all the time. Please be conscious and aware. – Tahrir Square is one famous example.

4. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have ...reminds participants that once something has happened, it's done—and no amount of fretting, complaining or otherwise rehashing can change that. Move on.

5. When it's over, it's over ...reminds participants that we never know how long it will take to resolve an issue, once raised, but that whenever the issue or work or conversation is finished, move on to the next thing. Don't keep rehashing just because there's 30 minutes left in the session. Do the work, not the time.

Abide the Law of Two Feet:

Owen explains his one "Law," called the "law of two feet" or "the law of mobility", as follows: If at any time during our time together you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing, use your two feet, go someplace else. In this way, all participants are given both the right and the responsibility to maximize their own learning and contribution, which the Law assumes only they, themselves, can ultimately judge and control. When participants lose interest and get bored in a breakout session, or accomplish and share all that they can, the charge is to move on, the "polite" thing to do is going off to do something else. In practical terms, Owen explains, the Law of Two Feet says: "Don't waste time!"