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Learning Grantee Learning Log
November 9, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? A key factor informing the early work of this project involved increasing capacity for farmers and foragers…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 30, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? The buy-in and support from our school partners in Rochester and Faribault has been incredible and key…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 30, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? The buy-in and support from our school partners in Rochester and Faribault was incredible and key to…
Learning Note from Jen
October 25, 2018
This year at bushCONNECT, I shared some thoughts on how change happens. I’ve done a lot of research the past couple of years on successful examples of social change. There are examples all around us all the time. We often don’t even notice them, much less learn from them. Published 2018
Learning Grantee Learning Log
October 5, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Insights gained from extensive discussions with over 30 local stakeholders were instrumental to (a) identifying DSY as…
Learning Note from Jen
September 18, 2018
One of the challenges of making institutions and systems work better for everyone, is that the people who rise to leadership tend to be people who thrive in those environments. When an institution worked well for you, it is harder to see the ways it may not work for others. It is harder to see what needs to change to make it work well for everyone. Published 2018
Learning Grantee Learning Log
September 4, 2018
What has been most instrumental to your progress? Throughout the past year, two specific components of our work became essential. First and foremost, we had…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
September 4, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? We approached the grant period with a clear, determined idea about how to move forward with the…
Learning Grantee Learning Log
September 4, 2018
What has been most instrumenta to your progress? The most significant decision that altered the trajectory of our work was pivoting to use the K-12…
Learning Note from Jen
August 7, 2018
We talk a lot at the Bush Foundation about how you don’t have to have a “leadership role” to be a leader. You can lead from anywhere. It is a bit more awkward to talk about the corollary truth, which is that just because you have the “leadership role” doesn’t mean you are leading. Published 2018