Educational Curricula and Workshops/Conferences

Enhancing the Voices: Expanding the Leadership Capacity of Rural People in the South. The SRDC will design and host an important weeklong training program that will advance the ability of our land-grant educators to initiate viable civic engagement strategies in their activities. This includes sharing such knowledge via classroom instruction and/or the delivery of (several times earlier extension is not capitalized) Extension community development programming in their states. The following key curricula products are to be highlighted in this workshop:

• LeadershipPlenty. The SRDC has been accepted by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change to serve as a national partner in delivering a new leadership development curriculum titled, "LeadershipPlenty." It is working with a team in the South to supplement the LeadershipPlenty resources and to delineate how the content of the LeadershipPlenty curricula will be showcased in the training workshop.
• Public Issues Deliberation. In light of the important role that the Kettering Foundation approach to public deliberation has played in facilitating citizen involvement in important local issues, the civic engagement workshop will offer training on this approach to involving local citizens in discussions of important policy matters.
• The Community Problem Solving Process. This educational product will offer workshop participants a systematic process for improving the ability of local people and organizations to systematically tackle difficult problems in their communities.