I created this map as part of my community development work with a School Board committee. We wanted to look at what groups were participating within the York Region School Board system.

I know the details of this map are not relevant to many readers but as I reflected on on these clusters I started to think of questions that could help our committee make sense of what’s going on.

If anything, I  think mapping is such a cool social media tool  that just compels you to start making sense of of data and asking relevant questions.

Here are my questions:

• Who these groups are, what are they doing and how successful are they in terms of supporting parent, family and community engagement strategies?

• What are their organization’s relationship to other organization in the same network?

• How the groups might possibly link within their network or external to their network in terms of alliances, partnerships or possibly merging,
• How do these informal networks and groups relate to what we know about emerging challenges in York Region?
• What are the gaps in those networks that could be filled by other groups etc.?
• Can these disparate groups inform the CEWG in its work of supporting parent, family and community engagement strategies?
• Given the fragmented aspects of the map, are there CEWG’s strategies that can be established to better support parent, family and community engagement strategies? Related to this question – what are the CEWG strategies?

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