How do you approach planning a new program?  What do you do (call, write, draw, share with your colleagues)?  What strategies do you find most helpful? (Post a response and respond to two colleagues).

Think about a time when you have been witness to a well thought out needs assessment - what did that look or feel like?  How did it help the program to succeed?  Who was involved? (Post a response and respond to two colleagues...)

1. Based on your early needs assessment conversations, review the CCE Statewide Plans of Work.  Choose 2-5 statewide outcomes that could be used to frame the work of your program.  You may have additional objectives, or objectives that are more specific to your project that fit within these broad ...

At this point you have started to talk to others about your project, you have been gathering your thoughts and some documentation, you have started looking at the plans of work.... how will you put this information into practice?  What helps to clarify what you want to do?  What gets in the way? ...

Teaching and learning are two related but different concepts.  We can be in a classroom (real or virtual, formal or informal) where concepts are taught...but we don't learn.  And other times we can be in a situation where lessons are taught in a way that we not only learn, but are inspired to ...

• Consider the planned programs that you have done in the last year.  What were they?  Who came?  Which instructional activities were a good match for your outcomes and why?
• How might knowing a previous strategy help you move your program closer to your ...