In the Tutor/Mentor Institute blog you can see more articles where I've embedded concept maps and ideas on systems thinking.
Today I'd like to introduce another map, showing the process I've been developing over the past 20 years.
On the left, I show the inputs, or information I've been aggregating since I formally created the Tutor/Mentor Connection in 1993. Across the middle I show various ways I've tried to expose this information to a growing number of people. Since I've never had advertising dollars, nor support from high profile business, political or celebrity spokespersons, the number of people I've reached has been limited, but still over a million visits to my web sites alone since 1998.
On the right, I show how formal and informal learning can help people innovate new ways to draw resources to all tutor/mentor programs in a geographic region as large as Chicago, and to help leaders of these programs use these resources, and what they can learn from each other, to constantly improve the work they do to connect youth and volunteers and help kids succeed in school, and move to jobs and careers not limited by poverty.
I've been sharing ideas like this on blogs since 2005 and email newsletters since 2001. I published printed newsletters between 1993 and 2001. Everything I've done can be done much better by others who may have more talent and resources than I have.
I've been looking for leaders in business, universities, philanthropy, etc who embrace the strategies and the way I share this information, and who want to adopt my efforts and support them with their own leadership and resources into future years.
If you're interested, here's a link to social media places where you can connect with me.
I have adapted your map a bit here: https://goo.gl/vPzpNX If this is an improper public use of the map let me know and I will remove it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry. I'm not sure the link you provided is working. Here's the link to your blog and the adaptation you created. http://rhetcompnow.com/tools/graphics-as-public-space/
ReplyDeleteI encourage any reader to take time to look at my maps and stories and then remix them like you did, to create greater understanding or greater readership.
That's the only way these ideas will spread and more people will become strategically involved in helping disadvantaged kids move through school and into jobs and adult lives free of poverty.