{"id":1894,"date":"2016-05-03T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2016-05-03T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:47:52","slug":"the-bottom-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"The bottom line"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s the bare minimum, the very least you require from a student and a community? The things you have to have for a community to be viable?
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\nPresent, on-time, and civil.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

If you have these three things, you can build almost anything. I can’t think of anything else that represents the very least you need to start a group moving forward. <\/p>\n

You can take each of these apart. Present might includes being on-time but I’d argue that needs to be explicitly stated. It also implies a kind of engagement — you have to be involved to be truly present – but it also explicitly contains things like preparation. Sad to say, it also ought to mean things like sobriety. <\/p>\n

Civility means listening to others, being respectful, and disagreeing appropriately. It’s also small things like taking your headphones out when you’re in a professional situation. I like civility over professional because there ought to be moments where you can let your hair down without losing a sense of civility. <\/p>\n

I’m trying to define a bottom line for us to consider how we’ll build a foundation for our culture. In other words, what’s non-negotiable before we begin negotiating how we’ll be known next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What’s the bare minimum, the very least you require from a student and a community? The things you have to have for a community to be viable? Present, on-time, and civil. If you have these three things, you can build almost anything. I can’t think of anything else that represents the very least you need … Continue reading The bottom line<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2015_2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-uy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}