{"id":1351,"date":"2014-03-01T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2014-03-01T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T19:56:22","slug":"literacies-of-contemporary-civic-life-schools-for-community-action-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=1351","title":{"rendered":"Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life: Schools for Community Action & Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, we had an awesome turnout at our second event as part of the Literacies of Contemporary Civic Life speaker series<\/a> at CSU. Mark Gomez, Patricia Hanson, and Katie Rainge-Briggs shared their powerful work at the Schools for Community Action<\/a>. They had an interactive presentation that involved researching issues local to Fort Collins and presenting elevator pitches for sustainable change. The work was engaging and a fun change of pace from the traditional academic mode of presentation. Their presentation can be viewed below (though if you find the small-group activity a bit dizzying, I encourage you to skip to around minute 44 when they do some larger wrap-up in a traditional format).<\/p>\n