One World Youth Project
One World Youth Project links schools around the world to build mutual respect and understanding among students.
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Jess
Apellido
Rimington
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Sobre tu organización
Nombre de la organización
One World Youth Project
Sitio web de la organización
País de la organización
Estados Unidos, DC, Washington, Washington
Países en donde este proyecto está creando impacto social
Tu organización es
Sin fines de lucro
Tu rol en la Educación
Otro.
Tipo de escuela(s) afiliada(s) con tu solución:
Pública (gratuita)
¿Cuánto tiempo ha estado operando la organización?
Más de 5 años
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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 más de 5 años
La necesidad: ¿Cuál es el problema que tratas de solucionar?
The world has changed. The global economy is flattening, there is unprecedented migration and we are experiencing a digital revolution and yet schools around the globe are not adequately preparing youth for their interconnected world. Those prepared to operate within this reality will see this interconnection as an opportunity. Those not prepared will see this changing landscape as a threat. 99% of school principals believe a global mindset is important for students’ futures. Educators and employers alike agree that immersion abroad is an effective way for students to develop global competence. But sending students abroad is costly. Schools around the globe are searching for a low-cost way to provide the social-emotional learning that takes place when students are exposed to the world.
La solución: ¿Cuál es tu solución? Sé específico.
One World Youth Project simulates the experience of travel by linking classrooms around the globe and empowering students to teach one another about our changing world. We partner with a university/college to develop a service-learning program on their campus where we train their students over the course of a semester to become experts in the OWYP "global mindset" curriculum. These students then facilitate a weekly connection between a local middle or high school classroom in their community with a classroom abroad through the match OWYP has made in partnership with a middle or high school in their community and in the region abroad. OWYP links all participating campuses in a global network, allowing student facilitators to work together across borders as advocates for their local middle/high school classrooms. This system provides middle and high schools with a free-of-cost way to expose their students to the world while still meeting standards.
El Modelo: Muéstranos a través de un ejemplo específico cómo tu solución hace una diferencia, incluye tus actividades primarias
OWYP works with Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the D.C. Public School system. Georgetown students sign up for the program through their community service center. They receive internship credit and some get paid for taking on additional leadership. After the OWYP training, they enter into a middle school social studies classroom once-a-week for a year to lead lessons that connect their mentee students with students in Prishtina, Kosovo. To do this effectively, the Georgetown students are in touch weekly with their counter-part facilitators: students at the University of Prishtina. OWYP empowers the university student facilitators on both sides of the exchange with video cameras, still cameras, mobile tech and most importantly, a flexible curriculum that inspires young people to teach one another, across borders, about our rapidly changing world while developing the ability to connect across difference.
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?
There are great orgs that do complementary work to integrate global competency into schools. Our partner, World Savvy, is one of the best examples. Also, peer organization Primary Source is a good curricular example. We call orgs like this the "global ed" sector. There is another sector we call "exchange 2.0" (cross-cultural connections via tech rather than travel). This includes partner orgs like iEARN and longtime peers Global Nomads Group and the Soliya Project. OWYP works with all of these orgs to create a greater awareness about the skills (e.g. applied empathy) and values (e.g. desire to be a change-maker) associated with a global mindset. They're not competitors because OWYP is unique in that it can scale exponentially without philanthropy or a focus on a certain region.
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]
One World Youth Project links schools around the world to build mutual respect and understanding among students.
Identifica lo que es innovador en tu solución en 1-2 frases cortas. [136 caracteres/25 palabras]
OWYP simulates the experience of travel by linking classrooms through tech, empowering students to teach one another about our world.
Impacto social
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¿Cuál ha sido el impacto de la solución hasta la fecha?
We have served 4 campuses and local school communities during our pilot --impacting over 150 university and middle/high school students. Post-pilot we dug in deeper in Washington, DC and Prishtina, Kosovo this academic year to better understand the impact of the inclusion of weekly, facilitated global education within the public school environment. Last month we made our first planned expansion to Guyana, Turkey, Pakistan and another US site: Boston.
¿Cuál es tu impacto proyectado para los próximos 1-3 años?
OWYP will scale to serve 45 campuses by 2015, engaging over 7,000 university and middle/high school students in 17 countries. This means 7,000 students will have developed greater global competency, have a greater chance of receiving and succeeding in higher education, have greater employment opportunities in a global economy and most importantly be discerning, empathetic and empowered global citizens poised to build a more sustainable and just world.
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
Launch the 2012/2013 OWYP program in Turkey, Pakistan, Kosovo, Guyana and the USA (DC & Boston) this fall.
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a las metas de seis meses.
Tarea 1
Improve upon the OWYP curriculum.
Tarea 2
Launch the spring 2012 Online Training Course (for the university students)
Tarea 3
Hold the 2012 Summer Training Conference for participant student managers from all over the globe (in Kosovo)
¡Ahora piensa en grande! Identifica tu meta de impacto a 12 meses.
Expand to 9 near universities/communities, bring the total number of sites to 15
Identifica tres grandes tareas que tendrás que completar para llegar a tu meta de impacto a 12 meses
Tarea 1
Recruit an additional 9 universities
Tarea 2
Develop a more comprehensive method of tracking impact over time (e.g. better understanding student behavioral change w/ OWYP))
Tarea 3
Fundraise the rest of the philanthropy needed until OWYP is 'cash positive' due to economies of scale
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.
I founded in OWYP in 2004 at 18 years-old as a link between my high school in Massachusetts, USA and a school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The project grew quickly as educators around the world began emailing asking for their classroom to be linked with a partner abroad. Within a year, OWYP became a not-for-profit run by a volunteer team of university students in seventeen countries. From 2004 to 2009, we connected 67 schools in 26 countries using email, Skype and Facebook to coordinate efforts. To meet the rising demand for wired global learning opportunities, OWYP began to engage universities as partners in connecting the secondary schools in their community with classrooms abroad. With these new partners, OWYP began to train university students as the facilitators of cultural exchange in local classrooms. OWYP scaled to a full-time staff and from 2009 to 2011 ran a two-year pilot with university partners in the United States, Kosovo, and Qatar. We have since expanded to 3 new sites.
Sostenibilidad
Cuéntanos sobre tus alianzas.
University of Prishtina, Georgetown University, University of Guyana, National University of Science & Technology, Boston University and Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi
¿Qué tipo de equipo (personal, voluntarios, etc.) te asegurará que logres las metas de crecimiento identificadas en la sección de Impacto social/i>?
OWYP is managed by a young, social-entrepreneurial team with experience in education, community & international development, sales, communications and media-production. We are guided by a hands-on Board of Directors with experience in scaling companies, sales, international economics and education. We currently have 7 full time staff members
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 need help with fundraising, messaging our impact clearly and with metrics/assessment.
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