Just the Facts • What are Facts? • Who controls them? • How do you get them? • What do you do with them? Where is the Life we’ve lost in living? Where is the wisdom we’ve lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we’ve lost in information? T. S. Elliot (from poem “The Rock”) & Frank Zappa (from Song “Packard Goose”) UEA Summer Leadership 2013
What is Data? • Is data different than facts? • How do we gather data? • What data do we look for? • Is there data overload? In 2008 there was 3.6 Zettabytes of information consumed on the Internet. A Zettabyte equals one sextillion or 10 21 bytes. Today the Huffington Posts estimates it is 9.57 Zettabytes UEA Summer Leadership 2013
What do Facts and Data Mean • Can we agree on the facts? • Do we trust the data? • What shapes how we use facts and data? UEA Summer Leadership 2013
Where do you need Data and Facts in Organizing? • Negotiations • Membership • Alternate Dues Payment Methods • PAC • Evaluations • Grievances UEA Summer Leadership 2013
How do you get Data and Facts? • Surveys • One-on-One Conversations • IMS • VAN • UniServ/local records • School District/USOE UEA Summer Leadership 2013
Vision and Values • Facts support Vision and Values • Understanding the facts, good or bad • Vision and Values guide the use of facts • What does Data Driven Mean in terms of Values UEA Summer Leadership 2013
It’s Never about the Data/Facts • Facts give a snapshot of something • Vision and Values give facts meaning • Must organize around vision and values UEA Summer Leadership 2013
? What are your UniServ evaluation organizing issues that need data? What is your UniServ vision and values that drive the data collection? How do you deal with unfavorable data? UEA Summer Leadership 2013
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