Community Learning Exchange

Location: Seattle, WA

The Community Learning Exchange is a network of resilient local communities, vibrant organizations, and active change agents who share their local wisdom and collective leadership approaches with each other so they can be more effective in addressing critical social issues. It provides an opportunity for community leadership groups to openly examine their challenges, freely exchange successful approaches, and become familiar with tools that can enhance local change initiatives. CLE envisions a world in which community challenges are addressed, not by individual leaders, but by collective leadership--groups of local residents working together for sustainable change in 21st Century settings. Unlike conventional learning institutions, which may be grounded in traditional pedagogy and offer a curriculum delivered by credentialed experts and supported by academic texts, the Community Learning Exchange views communities and people as the new instructors and texts for learning.

Highlights:

About Community Learning Exchange:

• Offers a networking service for like-minded folks and organizations to connect and collaborate
• Is home to an abundance of resources such as workbooks, videos, articles, and policy papers categorized under topics such as: Collective Leadership, Gracious Space, Learning Exchange, Racial Equity, and more
• Hosts learning exchange events around the nation and catalogs the highlights of the events on their website for folks to recap or experience for the first time
• Highlights current news and blogs relevant to the interests of people engaged in the CLE network
• Host public forums for relevant discussion

Links:

• Community Learning Exchange - http://www.communitylearningexchange.org/

Submitted by Shawn Strader on: Friday, June 10, 2011 - 1:26 pm

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leadership, collaboration, networking, community learning exchange