Hands in the Sky
Through education, connection, and ecological action we explore complex societal frameworks, simplify the ideas and create new pathways for success.
Sobre ti
Sobre ti
Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
Entre Los Arboles
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
España, MD, Madrid
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
España, MD, Majadahonda
Tu organización es
Otro
Tu rol en la Educación
Maestro, Otro.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Pública (gratuita)
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
Menos de un año
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Innovación
Selecciona la fase que describa mejor el momento en el que se encuentra tu emprendimiento
Inicio (iniciativa piloto que acaba de empezar a ponerse en práctica)
¿Hace cuánto que viene operando tu organización?
Operando menos de un año
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
Instituto Carlos Bousono is home to a dynamic, hard-working group of teachers and students. The education is solid, but resources are extremely limited and affecting the quality of curriculum.
Learning a second language is an important skill in our growing world, but many do not make the connection between our linguistic systems, and the corresponding pathways to sustaining our global systems.
Educational models implementing this link are lacking, and are forming barriers to success, communicative functionality, and empathetic understanding within the student body.
As a country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the western world, the current educational trajectory is clearly not working. Kids need new avenues to access relevant connections and learning.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
Through a specially designed (ESL based) course of study aimed at linguistic and sustainable connectedness we plan to amplify the syllabi at Instituto Carlos Bousono.
We will develop and incorporate innovative curriculum that will give students diverse opportunities to enhance their language skills, expand their horizons, strengthen their relationships, explore other cultures, think critically about their systems, and communicate these thoughts - all by learning how to connect more insightfully with their surrounding frameworks and the global processes at large.
By connecting students with their environment and teaching them how their everyday systems function we hope to be able to create new frameworks of thought and new pathways of compassion, empathy and wellness for themselves, and the student body as a whole. This idea is to be able to inspire forward movement with thought not previously illuminated, conversation not previously had.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
The course of study will be broken into two semesters and two coinciding units.
In Unit 1 we will explore the role of language, empathy, and society. We will go over underlying principles, cross-cultural examination, and make the connection to sustainability. We will define sustainability and what it means to students. We will investigate the use of resources and talk about international comparisons. We will discuss global use of renewable resources and how they affect economic empowerment, innovation, and society. We will present information and resources about the green job market. We will discuss our systems of consumption and waste - going in depth about the source of resources, water, and food.
We will partner with the High School for Environmental Studies in New York City to coordinate lessons, and do a cross comparison of our statistics in relation to student demographics and eco ratings.
Other Activities:
Community meeting - farm to school initiative
Plan the school garden
School newspaper
Unit 2 will introduce students to the history of permaculture, its principles, design, and international community models. Students will design and implement a school survey/audit to explore and gauge sustainable systems in school. We will bring in guest speakers to present on green building and introduce resources and info about the green job sector in Spain. We will explore ethics and connect them to design, work, and daily life. Students will design and present a permaculture system for the school.
Other Activities:
Community/Earth Day
School Garden
El mercado: ¿Quiénes son tus pares y competidores? Identifica a otros que también estén trabajando para dar respuesta a las necesidades que tú abordas y en qué te diferencias de ellos. ¿Cuáles son los desafíos que estos jugadores podrían representar para tu éxito o crecimiento?
The Community of Madrid has quite a few environmental educational platforms set up. Centro de Información y Educación Ambiental del Retiro is a great one in Retiro Park. There is also Germinando Iniciativas Socioambientales, and our personal favorite - Ecologistas en Accion. Unfortunately, some of these programs like La Red de Centro Educacion Ambiental are being cut due to austerity measures.
All of the aforementioned parties are located in Madrid Centro and we are not aware of any initiatives in Majadahonda, where Instituto Carlos Bousono is located. We are currently corresponding with the above parties to learn more about local movements, source resources and discuss possible collaborations. We are also looking to the US Embassy for support.
Ahora que has pensado en tu innovación, ayúdanos a presentarla.
Define tu empresa, programa, servicio o producto en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Through education, connection, and ecological action we explore complex societal frameworks and create new pathways for success.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
Our solution creates new educational models leading to enriched communication, sustainable connections, and opportunities.
Impacto social
Esta presentación se trata de
¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
From the curriculum that we have implemented this year, we’ve seen great enthusiasm from both students and teachers. We have connected with over 15 classes to run art activities, present on global issues, create a school newspaper, run a unit on sustainability, and begin the planning of a school garden. Through this work, students seem engaged, excited about learning, and very curious about how other people around the world live and learn.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
Our projected impacts are to:
- Develop and publish curriculum to increase aptitude of second language learning, activate empathy, and increase cross cultural communication regarding sustainability
- Make curriculum available to public high schools around the world
- Connect curriculum through school partnerships
- Gain statistics and results from these partnerships to track impact
- Contribute results to publications
Las iniciativas ganadoras presentan un plan fuerte de cómo van a alcanzar y realizar un seguimiento del crecimiento. Identifica tus metas a seis meses para el crecimiento de tu impacto
School to School Partnership
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
School to School Skype Meeting
Tarea 2
Comparitive Interest Survey
Tarea 3
Comparitive Demographic Survey
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
School/Community Garden
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Comparitive Eco Rating Survey
Tarea 2
School/Community Garden Proposal Meeting
Tarea 3
Garden Implementation
Historia de la fundación: Queremos saber acerca del momento en el que hiciste "¡Ajá!". Comparte la historia de dónde y cuándo el/los fundador(es) vio (vieron) el potencial de esta solución para cambiar el mundo.
When living in New York City, founder Dylana Dillon was a frequent customer at the infamous Murrays Bagels. Every time she went, she noticed bag after bag being given to customers, only to be discarded seconds after when they sat down to eat...filling the venues trash cans to the brim with barely used bags. Observing this, it seemed like anyone could recognize the absurdity, and that the solution to this was as simple as a five word question.
"Would you like a bag."
With just this one question, she thought, Murrays could save a ton of resources, money, and waste. Helping themselves, and in turn the environment.
And therein lies the framework of Entre Los Arboles.
If we bring ourselves to really understand our systems, and the intrinsic and enacted connections of our daily existence, we can make better choices and communicate these choices to make better solutions.
As simply as one hand, or even one bagel at a time.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
We partner with as many local grass roots organizations as possible. These partnerships help us to learn about local movements, target needs, source resources, and report back to the public on all these points.
We also have point members a the High School for Environmental Studies in NYC, The Burlington VT School District, Burlington Permaculture, the Sustainability Academy of VT, the Triskeles Foundation, and Ecologistas en Accion.
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
Our current staff consists of three team members, all volunteer.
Founder, Dylana Dillon will be in charge of implementing the curriculum targeted in this competition. We will also rely on resources from some of the aforementioned community partners in accomplishing identified milestones.
Por favor, pon en claro las necesidades u ofertas que hayas mencionado anteriormente y/o sugiere categorías de apoyo que no están especificadas en la lista
We would love to collaborate with anyone interested!
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