“The Chamber staff didn’t balk at our meeting-intensive structure but embraced it wholly, understanding from the beginning that in order to build a plan that was truly reflective of the citizens’ priorities, it was going to take time, deep listening, and a great deal of collaboration.”
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With so many people working on issues together, we often get asked how “diversity of opinion” actually works.
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“I got a sense of a place in nature where you would be able to separate from all the distractions of the modern world, and that proved to be exactly what we got,” Cameron said in an interview after the retreat. “It’s very rare you find somewhere with accommodation and the space to learn and to interact…it’s unique.
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By Meghann Ray Meghann is the lead program officer for our Arkansas Education Policy Initiative. The ultimate goal of this new program is to create statewide education policy recommendations and actions that will improve Arkansas’s national standing in K-12 educational outcomes. In addition to being an economic boost, we believe these recommendations could lead to…
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