Words into Deeds
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WORDS INTO DEEDS develops friendships among students in America and Africa, and then transforms empathy into humanitarian action.
Sobre Você
Sobre Você
Nome
Jodi
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Sobre Sua Organização
Nome da Organização
Radnor Middle School
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , PA, Wayne
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Uganda, IGA, Iganga Province
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Seu papel na Educação:
Professor.
Natureza da escola na qual seu projeto está afiliado:
Pública (mensalidade gratuita)
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Entre 1 e 5 anos
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INOVAÇÃO
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Crescimento (seu piloto está em andamento e começa a se expandir)
Há quanto tempo seu projeto está em atividade?
Em execução entre 1 e 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
Students need to learn that they can create material and social benefit through inspired application of their words and deeds. Children have a natural desire towards fairness: recognizing that they can help create a situation that attempts to even the playing field is transformative. Within the context of the classroom, students and teachers can become social activists and environmentalists, humanitarians, artists, business partners and friends. WORDS INTO DEEDS activates empathy in students by building written-word relationships that clarify their correspondents’ situations, then provides a platform to initiate humanitarian action. By engaging other cultures through writing, research and project organization, students fulfill curriculum demands and absorb important life lessons.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
WORDS INTO DEEDS entails working with teachers here and in Uganda to develop a written-word exchange between students which includes a variety of creative and artistic forms of expression that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards for Writing & Social Studies; challenging students to develop fund-raising campaigns, using a variety of media and communication tools that fulfill curriculum standards; and providing assistance to teacher and student-ambassadors to travel to Uganda to work collaboratively to improve their schools and share resources and pedagogy. Providing the opportunity to act as ambassadors for this effort is the most authentic way to demonstrate true caring and commitment while empowering students to become leaders and role models for humanitarian action.Showing up, not just paying up, teaches the value of commitment and follow-through, while building a more enduring relationship between our communities.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
Beginning as pen pals and poets in 2009, my students learned through an exchange of letters, memoirs and poetry that many of their pen pals were orphaned and their families had to struggle to provide school fees. Privacy is a primary concern to young adolescents, and when they learned that the latrines at the Bupala School did not have doors, they were motivated to respond and reach out. My middle school students generated imaginative fund-raising solutions and raised $5,000 to build a latrine for their pen pals last year! The students developed skills as entrepreneurs, public speakers, accountants, and agents for change by enlisting their parents and the community in their appeal. This summer I am travelling to the Bupala School, hopefully with some student representatives, to complete the construction of this latrine. Providing the opportunity for more students to travel to Uganda would allow them to see, firsthand, the power of words to manifest change and help others, while developing ambassadors for social activism. The goal is to provide a framework for our school to maintain a relationship with the Uganda schools, inviting more students and teachers to participate in this outreach effort while meeting and exceeding Common Core Curriculum Standards.
O Mercado: Quem são os seus pares e concorrentes? Identificar os outros que também estão trabalhando para solucionar as mesmas necessidades que você e o que você faz de diferente em relação a eles. Quais seriam os desafios impostos por esses concorrentes que impactariam no seu sucesso ou crescimento?
WORDS INTO DEEDS is a grassroots classroom project currently fundraising to complete its first initiative. Other teachers I’ve talked to are excited about the idea, but to the best of my knowlege there are no similar projects ongoing in my region. The idea’s classroom orientation would seem to place it outside of direct competition from service organizations with regular programming. Our partners in Uganda are Women and Youth Services NGO in Kampala, the contractors and volunteers in the village, and the teachers in the rural schools who inspire their students to pursue an education against unimaginable odds. Our inspiration is Joanne Trangle, founder of Kuchanga Travel, dedicated to organizing volunteer opportunities in Africa. Locally, our partners include the greater school community.
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WORDS INTO DEEDS develops friendships among students in America and Africa, and then transforms empathy into humanitarian action.
Identifique o que é inovador na sua solução em 1-2 frases. [136 caracteres]
WORDS INTO DEEDS challenges students to become global activists while fulfilling core curriculum in their local schools.
IMPACTO SOCIAL
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Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
My students have realized that they have the power to make a difference in the lives of others. Communicating personally with students who attend a school that has no doors on the latrine was shocking to my students. Their immediate response was: We have to help them! They brainstormed ideas and created a Move-a-Thon, they sold homework passes, they canvassed their neighborhoods; then they persuaded a local health club to sponsor an event engaging the broader community. In the end, they raised $5,000. The written exchange between the schools in both countries has continued, and the wider community has become aware of the efforts generated by twelve year old youth. Some of the students who have progressed into high school have maintained their investment in this project: they are planning to travel to Uganda with me this summer to complete the construction of a new latrine, decorated in hand-painted tiles with messages of hope and inspiration from across our community.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
The construction of a latrine that offers a sense of privacy should encourage more young women to remain in school. One of the goals of this correspondence is to improve the learning conditions and to share some of our abundant resources with our Ugandan friends. A bi-product of this initiative is that my students learn that they have the power to change lives through their words and deeds. I hope the students who are involved in this project are motivated to work on behalf of others. WORDS INTO DEEDS is building more than relationships: it is a confidence-building experience that motivates students to take a stand against the injustice they see in the world. I hope to bring more students to Uganda over the next several years, building ambassador skills and empathy in action.
As inscrições vencedoras apresentam um plano sólido sobre como vão alcançar e acompanhar o crescimento do projeto. Identifique as metas de seis meses para aumentar seu impacto.
Travel to Uganda with a contingent of student representatives to assist in the construction of a school latrine facility.
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os seis (6) meses
Atividade 1
Complete the tile-painting initiative to raise funds and awareness in our community, and to expand the written word connection.
Atividade 2
Secure a commitment to travel to our project site in Iganga, Uganda from a contingent of 5-10 students @ $4,000 per student.
Atividade 3
Travel to Uganda to complete the latrine construction and spend time working alongside our pen pals in late July, 2012.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Expanding the mission of WORDS TO DEEDS to include additional classrooms here and in rural Uganda.
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os doze (12) meses
Atividade 1
Share documentation of the journey to Uganda with members of the community and beyond through social networking.
Atividade 2
Develop curriculum-supported projects to share with other educators.
Atividade 3
Work with NGO to expand our connection to other schools in rural Uganda.
História: Queremos saber mais sobre o momento de descoberta desta solução. Conte-nos a história sobre onde e quando o(s) fundador(res) vislumbrou(aram) o potencial desta solução para mudar o mundo. [125 palavras]
My eighth-grade class became pen pals with peers in rural Uganda. They exchanged booklets about their lives, then each group created a poetry anthology. Among the poignant details: the Ugandan school’s crumbling latrines offer no privacy, and to protect their modesty girls routinely drop out when they reach puberty. With some research and imagination, my students realized they could repair this shocking inequity. They organized a campaign that raised more than $5,000 to build a proper latrine. Activating their empathy in this way was a lifelong lesson in the power of words and deeds to change lives. Several of my students are now working toward traveling to Uganda to meet their pals and help with the construction, literally cementing the relationship!
Kindly check out my students' blog for more background: www.penpaluganda.blogspot.com
SUSTENTABILIDADE
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The Parent-Teacher Organization and the Radnor Educational Foundation have recognized the value of this project that invites the entire school community to participate in a humanitarian cause that begins with the written word. WORDS TO DEEDS makes students aware of the world beyond their own circumstances, inspires them to want to help others, and instills a sense of compassion in every participant. My principal and my past students and their parents are ardent supporters of this project, as well as Kuchanga Travel founder Joanne Trangle who initiated this pen pal exchange.
Qual o perfil da equipe (colaboradores, voluntários etc.) que vai garantir o cumprimento das metas de crescimento identificadas por você na seção ‘Impacto Social’?
Stakeholders in this project include the pen pals and their families, the PTO, Radnor Educational Foundation and donors from our community, the people who created a tile to be hung in the latrine, Women and Youth Services NGO in Kampala, and members of the Bupala School community with whom we will work beside will ensure the growth and development of this relationship. I am eager to include your organization as a partner in this effort.
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This sounds like a wonderful project. Maybe someday, the Uganda pen pals would also be able to visit your school / a sister school exchange? I like the idea of students taking direct action that leads to results and global friendship.
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