Ink Stain and partner FutureWave Consulting, chosen to capture the best ideas at Colorado Department of Education's December and January meeting of the minds.
In December of '09 and in January of '10, The Colorado Department of Education brought together its 35 literacy experts in the field for a day of brainstorming and ideation. The goal was to come up with ideas that would serve to align CDE literacy goals.
The program, created by the CDE and designed by Ink Stain and FutureWave Consulting, was conceived to inspire experts to share valuable ideas and create a way for the CDE to capture and further develop these intellectual breakthroughs for future use in a major report destined for the Education Commissioner's desk.
Ink Stain provided an extrapolation for each idea and a reportage that offered an insight into the consistent intellectual and emotional themes of the day.
"Our goal was to ensure the themes were identified, and not lost to the ether," explained Deborah Scheffel.
As we began to uncover these themes, we noticed that there was no shortage of great ideas in the room. Everyone noticed that there was no hesitancy among these highly informed experts to express themselves, to reveal their ideas and experiences about the entire story concerning literacy. However, a caveat revealed itself: Without a way to consistently revisit these newly captured insights, and without a way to further organize and ACT ON valuable intellectual contributions, many contributors would return home and work in isolation.
Ink Stain is now working with CDE to create a marketing medium that will showcase these newly discovered ideas for the public and for the Colorado Department of Education community of contributors.
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