Join the 2012-2013 IDEA Organizing Team!

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If you’re ready for a different story to be told about education -- a story about education that is by, for, and with young people, educators, families, and communities -- then we’d love for you to apply to be an IDEA Organizer.

Community organizing is a time-tested model that we believe can be well utilized, along with digital organizing, to generate a powerful catalytic effect in the lives of folks most directly experiencing challenges and wanting change. For the past two years, we’ve been privileged to work with organizers who are teachers, students, parents, digital changemakers, and community leaders.

This year, we’ve designed a new structure for the organizing teams. Seven teams will focus on specific groups in education (such as young people and schools), and three additional teams will focus on digital organizing, planning IDEC 2013, and advancing work in specific regions where IDEA has a presence.

Read more on our website and download the call for organizers

We asked 2011-2012 IDEA Organizers what worked well this year, and here are a few of their responses:

“Having the opportunity to connect with folks from different places and struggle through what it means to develop relationships with really different perspectives. To be part of trying to build something new and holding relationships in new ways.”

“I appreciated having a group with a common value set working across differences.”

“I feel activism can be isolating and it was great to connect with the group. It can difficult going, and it was renewing to have a network of ready-made folks that have your back.”

“I really enjoyed our time together at IDEA Camp. It was good to get to know other folks doing work on the ground. I enjoyed the diversity of the group, to have it include teachers, principals, digital folks, community organizers -- a strong team.”

Please share our call for organizers widely, and consider applying yourself!
Read more on our website and download the call for organizers