EC Meeting Papers January 2019

- Create branding for pilot project and tools for local customisation.

A speakers network:

- Create a database of academics, activists and other experts committed to speak

regularly at events across the country.

- Within first 6 months pilot the speakers network to gauge demand and

usefulness.

- If useful then develop an automated digital tool to manage speaker requests and

speaker allocation going forward.

A digital hub for political education

- Redevelop the TWT website as a digital hub for popular political education,

including information about existing political education projects.

- Create a resources bank, including how to guides, workshop templates,

adaptable design and branding packs, introductory videos on different political

education initiatives.

- Create a forum for organisers and educators to share experience and practice.

- Pilot the digital hub with network of political educators, with the intention to

then make it available to a wider audience.

- Develop and user-test search tools for users of the website that help them easily

find the most appropriate political education resources in the resources bank.

- Create content to promote the digital hub within the movement.

A documented survey of political education models and best practice

- Continue extensive mapping process of UK political education initiatives.

Determining scope, focus and geographical diversity of current political

education projects on the left & building relationships in the process.

- Employ a Popular Education Researcher who will spend a year evaluating the

current state, scale and reach of left-wing popular education initiatives (including

the pilot programme above).

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