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Civic Engagement 101
The document outlines a civic engagement initiative by Tom Tresser, focusing on increasing community involvement and awareness among youth through various activities, including a civic engagement poll. It emphasizes the importance of civic competencies such as mindset, knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for effective participation in democratic processes. The text also suggests specific actions to enhance civic engagement, such as increasing youth voter registration and promoting volunteerism.
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- 2. Let’s get social… #AdlerCivics @tomstee Let’sget referential… http://civicchicago.wikispaces.com Use this URL: https://wikispaces.com/join/PF4KTCP
- 3. LET'S START BYTAKING THIS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT POLL VIA TEXTIZEN HAVE YOU DONE ANY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY IN THE PAST 24 MONTHS? IF YES - TEXT "YES" TO 312-883-8103 IF NO - TEXT "NO" TO 312-883-8103 Standard text message rates apply Results @ https://www.textizen.com/polls/2941
- 4. Enjoy the musicwhile results gathered… IF YES - TEXT "YES" TO 312-883-8103 IF NO - TEXT "NO" TO 312-883-8103 HAVE YOU DONE ANY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITY IN THE PAST 24 MONTHS?
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- 7. Why Civic Engagement? Civic Engagement= Working to make a difference in the life of your community.
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- 9. CIVIC COMPETENCY –OUR CIVIC MUSCLES • Civic mindset or “appetite” • Civic knowledge • Civic skills • Civic experience A Word document summarizing these “muscles” is on our Civic Wiki.
- 10. Civic mindset or“appetite” Civic dispositions encompass interpersonal and intrapersonal values, virtues, and behaviors. How likely are you to engage? • Tolerance and respect • Appreciation of difference • Rejection of violence • Concern with the rights and welfare of others • Commitment to balancing personal liberties with social responsibility to others • Sense of belonging to a group or polity • Readiness to compromise personal interests to achieve shared ends • Desire for community involvement • Attentiveness (to civic matters, the news, etc.) • Personal efficacy
- 11. Civic Knowledge Civic contentincludes both core knowledge and the ability to apply knowledge to different circumstances and settings. What do you know. • Key historical periods, episodes, cases, themes, and experiences of individuals and groups in U.S. history • Principles, documents, and ideas essential to constitutional democracy • Structures, processes, and functions of government; powers of branches and levels of government • Political vehicles for representing public opinion and effecting political change • Mechanisms and structure of the U.S. legal system • Political and civic heroes • Social and political networks for making change • Social movements and struggles, particularly those that address issues as yet unresolved • Structural analyses of social problems and systemic solutions to making change
- 12. 12 Pretty basic civicknowledge… • Percentage U.S. adults who can name all three branches of government? • Percentage U.S. Adults who can name all Three Stooges? Zogby International Poll, August 2006 73% 42%
- 14. Civic Skills Intellectual civicskills encompass knowing how to identify, assess, interpret, describe, analyze, and explain matters of concern in civic life. What (and HOW) can you do? • Perspective-taking • Understanding, interpreting, and critiquing various media • Understanding, interpreting, and critiquing different points of view • Expressing one’s opinions • Active listening • Identifying public problems • Drawing connections between democratic concepts and principles and one’s own life experience • Critical thinking – Do you have a B.S. Detector?
- 15. Civic Experience Civic participatoryskills encompass knowing how to cope in groups and organizational settings, interface with elected officials and community representatives, communicate perspectives and arguments, and plan strategically for civic change. What have you done? • Volunteering • Active listening, Engaging in dialogue with those who hold different perspectives • Communicating through public speaking, letter writing, petitioning, canvassing, lobbying, protesting • Managing, organizing, participating in groups • Building consensus and forging coalitions • Utilizing electoral processes – helping someone run • Utilizing non-electoral means to voice opinion (protest, petitioning, surveying, letter writing, boycotting, and so on) • Planning and running meetings • Organizing and demonstrating • Running for public office
- 16. State of CivicEngagement
- 21. "This creative poweris a striving power; this creative power can be seen in different views, in the power of evolution, in the power of life, in the power which accomplishes the goal of an ideal completion to overcome the difficulties of life." Alfred Adler - "The General System of Individual Psychology," an unpublished manuscript in the AAISF/ATP Archives.)
- 22. 1. Increase youthvoter registration 2. Increase youth volunteerism 3. Expose youth to Fight For 15 4. Get people to care about Dyett Campaign 5. Get people to donate $5 to the Red Cross 6. Make case that someone from Adler should run for Governor in 2018
- 23. • 20 minutesto brainstorm (additive, +) • Choose a scribe • What is your message? • How to get message out, attended to? • Report back
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