1. It's like the cubes. Define the cubes, what is a bottom line definition.

Organization of information :which implies action research from multiple perspectives

Research of what is being is being played.

2. The core constituency and their roles

Arnie: themes and sharing, in the trenches view

Larry brings organization, research, tieing theoretical and practical together

David Dik – business admin, ties it to the larger community of humanity, runs the Business

1. Larry made the comment about the cubes at which point realized that they are modality of thinking. This conforms earlier suspicions that I have had. The definition: Organization...... teaches me about how to construct a proactive framework and to be clear about the implications. In the case of the Learning Laboratory School Network, it is employing research into effective integration and implementation methodology as exhibited in the portfolios and raw data.

- In the Lovelyweather Collective I am realizing that researching the listening habits historically would be an interesting undertaking. This is in reaction to my close friend Nathans comments about that method of assessing “modern music.” That comment popped into my head during the call so I jotted it down. The unpacking of it is that we can trace what has been historically programmed and know what sort of trends the concert going populace exhibits. More importantly it is the sort of action research that I can do going forward, ie. A concert questionnaire or something along those lines, some way of getting peoples assessment of the concert presentation.

• What was their emotional reaction?

• What was their intellectual reaction?

• Formatting questions that engage the listener as an active participant in the presentation of a concert experience. In many ways this is what the Security event is about. The question I am raising for myself is how too engage the audience in a manner that is empowering and not overbearing?

2. A week ago I began to collect my thoughts about the consortium MIENC and in doing so I began to look at the different modalities as exhibited by the various constituency. Todays call and subsequent discussion crystallized not only the different roles that are present, but also the necessity of active and engaged participants more importantly than “importance/stature” ie Quality of engagement if reciprocal evident in quantity and quality of engagement. This was a point that David Dik really drove home. I am now going to try and unpack the 3 roles that I saw today, there are certainly more roles, but these 3 seem to be the core.

• Sharing Empowerment Role, This person who brings the emotional side into the picture. They validate the emotions and enlist the emotional material as a tool with which to bring people together. This is not limited to emotional content, but that is a good reduction.

• Pragmatic Business – This is the person who relates the establishment to the business field, is concerned with management, monetarily as well as positions of power.

• The go between – This person validates the other two positions and collects and organizes information that allows the other two to function. Also this is the organizational power, the “Face man” to quote the A Team! The follow up phone calls! Thank you is so important.

• Actually, The A Team, Hannibal is the pragmatist., Face the PR guy with all the face time and connections as it were. Then Mr.T, & Murdoch the implementers, the performers in the trenches as it were, the guys who build anything etc.

3. “I'm talking to myself and to everybody else” - L Scripp.

4. Every letter has to be a strong letter. In the application process.

5. Network is all about sharing – knowing the themes makes it possible.

6. if not here for the first shot, you're just not here for the first shot. It is more important to have eager participants, not to have numbers.

7. It's about depth of work not quantity. Quantity not quality. Repeat information

3. This is a great Scripp quote. One of the hallmarks of my notebooks is the fact that I write down quotes from my teachers and I am able to recreate the scene and go through it again years later by just invoking that phrase. Sort of like a mantra or a magic spell, only, this is how I learn. What I like about this phrase is that it invokes Scripp and Robert Cogan my composition teacher, who is always reminding me that the most important discussion is the one that we are having with ourselves and as time goes on this is what is revealed to the people around us and they participate weather they know it or not.

• One interesting development in my personal discussion is that the portfolio is a way of making that tangible. This is what Scripp models with all the documents that he produces for the Consortium.

4. Pragmatism!!!! This is a great reminder. And what it means is not that the letter has to be of a certain quality of writing, it does, but what it really means is that it must address what the reader needs. This is my little lesson in application writing.

5. Arnie made the wonderful point that the network is about sharing and to do that one must have a common ground on which to share information. Themes!!!! He modeled this for me in the phone call by taking in peoples ideas and then drawing the cross site connections, what are the underlying themes that bind the different sometimes seemingly different constituencies.

6. This quote of David Dik supports something that I have come to appreciate as an integral component in the consortium, work ethic.

1. the people involved must have a very high work ethic

2. The first time through is just that, the first time through and after the completion of that there must be an assessment of the relationship and the members at which point relationships may end and the also may begin. This sort of business thinking is something that David is great at and something that I like to keep in my head even if I am not the person to implement it in the Lovelyweather Consortium, I will be able to appreciate the pragmatism.

7. This is sort of an expounding on the earlier idea in #6. But it is also a phrase that I have carried in my head from my years in high school, it was the mantra of my art teacher, someone I s[sent a lot of time with and learned a great deal from. It is something that I learned then but have been learning again and again as I gain a deeper understanding of what quality is. So what is

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8. funding to develop a process, not funding to produce an outcome

9. free software – nitch is providing consultation – the model needs to be tight – times this week – business sctn.

10. Communication shows you care then there is the why.

Quality work??

• My answer (to date) Quality work is that which provokes the audience (be it a listening, viewing or reading public) intellectually as well as emotionally. There need be no order to that response train, emotion or intellect first, but I have observed for myself I like an emotional reaction first then the intellectual. In engaging the emotion quality a work must reference the underlying emotions of the human condition in a way that is not superficial or kitsch. (for example the Marriage of Figaro – Mozart – deals with emotional issues of class and sex relations in a way that is timeless, that is why we still are engaged today, the story is one that is continuously repeated.) The intellectual response most often comes after the surface of the work, ie now that one has had an emotional response to the obvious story line or shape or sound etc. what sort of engagement is there, what sort of timeless issues is the author addressing? The declarative model, evil is bad we must fight against it, is a historical manner of dealing with deep intellectual issues. Many of todays leading artists are presenting issues and the multiple ways in which they are experienced (ex. Roger Sessions “Montezuma” where both Cortez and Montezuma are hero's. (this is an idea that Robert Cogan put into my head and I am very thankful for that). In short quality must have depth and texture that is true, not put there because it should be there, because the audience will sense something that is not true and it will fail. Wow, there is a definition for truth in art, expressing what the artist has to express because it is real, in so doing their construct will have continuity and depth because it has to, because they are able to understand it on a multitude of levels.

8. This is something that Larry remarked to me and is a good example of how the consortium is clear about what they are doing. Keeping this in mind they are working to produce process and how to do what it is that they are doing, hence the importance of all the theoretical thought around the portfolio. And the idea of the portfolio as a tracking of process, this is a clear example of doing the same thing on multiple levels.

9. This was an example of an external model of the consortiums work that David Dik introduced into the picture. When I get a hold of the article I am going to break it down a bit. What is of interest to me is that I suggested to Larry several months ago after reading an article on “Craigs List” that this model of start up was much more in line with the consortiums work than the countless big names that got a lot of money and had big add campaigns. The difference being that the Craigs list and in my view the consortium are inverting in the something that they love to do in order to keep doing it, while many Internet startups created and create businesses in order to sell them, ie make a shell and then get out. While this model is one that works it is not a sustainable model or one that I am interested in using and why the Craigs List/ MIENC model is so much more interesting.

10. In discussing members of the consortium that had not participated in phone calls or had been hard to track down Larry remarked about communication. It is the sort of thing that is fairly evident, but it should not go without note. Communications, the type and the amount say just as much if not more than what the subject of the communications is. In teaching a class this has been proven to me time and again when someone is presenting a party line that they do not care for or understand the message is presented but it is never threaded into the fabric of the class. Whereas I can think of teachers who have spent an entire year on one simple message presented over and over, because it is what they have ti communicate. The shear volume and quality of communication says far more than what their words say. I am reminded of Robert Cogan patiently reminding me about the design of the long line from the first day I met him until my lesson last week, this has been his message and it is one that can not be understated in creative work.

11. Why these schools – special questions about music.

12. Medium and the message. Visual or audio recordings!

13. There must be 3 agents for change. - Arnie

14. Discussion of the rhetoric and functionality of the cubes has entered our discussion and consciousness in such a way that it is not entirely perceptible. L Scripp

11. Special questions, this alludes to the questions that drive the research, the underlying mission of a school. This is the motivation for the people who work hard. In identifying partners/allies it is of the utmost importance to identify people that are driven by the same sorts of questions or rather create a network of people who's questions overlap enough so as to fuel each other.

12. As with the quantity of communication the medium of the communication allows you to say or not to say everything. Visual and audio recordings capture things that would take pages of writing to expound. This is why a portfolio must include these options and why the artist must always choose the correct medium of expression. The old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” comes to mind.

13. This is a rule that Arnie likes to refer to time and again. It is pragmatic and important but something that I don't truly understand yet, intellectually at least. In the context of the consortium it is something that he points out when we are talking about institutional change, that there must be at least three people to affect change.

14. This quote of Larry Scripp made me realize how much of the development of the cube system emerged from discussions that took place in the in office meetings, MIENC calls, presentations to the schools etc. This quote is a realization that the concept of multidimensional learning, documentation and assessment was something that this model had emerged, ie a statement of the obvious. What Scripp modeled in getting to this point was externalization of the internal discussion, much like Robert Cogan does in lessons. The ability to externalize ones ideas and then discuss and debate them, ie annotate and reflection in the verbal arena.