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Community Engagement

Core Value

What Does Community Engagement Mean?
Community Engagement means making a consistent, sustained commitment to serving and developing connection with others. 

What You Need To Do:
You need to identify and understand an authentic need in your local or global community, consider possibilities and take meaningful action to affect positive change.

Will My Reflection Be Approved?

You demonstrate that you have made a connection with and provided meaningful action to some part of your community in a sustained way, and reflected on the value of having responsibility for your community.

Exemplars

Annotated Exemplar

Guiding Questions

Metacognition
Guiding Questions

Developing new understanding - Overall, how did this experience develop new understandings/change you as a global citizen?​

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  • E.g. Coming from a more privileged community, how do we learn more and understand the intersectionality of the topic in working with your community partner?

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  • Which community are you working with? 

  • What is the authentic need you are addressing with your community and how are you celebrating their assets?

  • Which SDG goal(s) and indicators connect to this?

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Advocacy

  • Show evidence of the meaningful advocacy you undertake.

  • How has this advocacy brought awareness within a new community?

 

Or​​ Direct 

  • Which type of meaningful direct action with the community did you undertake- can you show evidence?

  • How have you measured the impact of your direct actions?

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Or​ Indirect

  • Which type of meaningful indirect action with the community did you undertake- show evidence. 

  • How have you measured the impact of your indirect actions?

  • How has your sustained engagement (over a year) helped you make a positive impact? 

  • How do you envision this connection to continue in the future to make a greater difference?

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