Literacy and Cultural Connections
Esta inscrição foi selecionada como finalista no desafio
Activating Empathy: Transforming Schools To Teach What Matters.
Changing Worlds is educational arts nonprofit with a mission to improve student learning, affirm identity and enhance cross-cultural understanding.
Sobre Você
Sobre Você
Nome
Emilie
Sobrenome
Shumway
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Sobre Sua Organização
Nome da Organização
Changing Worlds
Página da organização na internet
País da organização
Estados Unidos , IL, Chicago
Países onde este projeto vem gerando impacto social
Estados Unidos , IL, Chicago
Sua organização é
ONG/OSC
Seu papel na Educação:
Diretor de Recursos.
Natureza da escola na qual seu projeto está afiliado:
Pública (mensalidade gratuita)
Há quanto tempo sua organização está em operação?
Mais de 5 anos
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INOVAÇÃO
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Expandindo (o próximo passo é aumentar o impacto em escala local ou mesmo global)
Há quanto tempo seu projeto está em atividade?
Em execução por mais de 5 anos
A necessidade: Qual é o problema que você está tentando resolver?
In a global landscape where lack of empathy leads to stereotyping, violent behaviors and lack of human connections, Changing Worlds uses the power of personal narratives with writing and the arts to build inclusive learning communities, affirm identity and build cultural and human connections. Today, youth are exposed to violence daily and occupy classrooms where they don't feel a connection to the learning process. This is fueled by the increase in bullying and racially charged attacks. Research from John Hopkins University shows that youth who feeling a connection to school have a decrease in violent behaviors and increased academic outcomes.
A Solução: Qual é a sua solução? Seja específico!
Changing Worlds will replicate its research-based LCC program regionally in low income schools and districts through interdisciplinary arts, cultural awareness and literacy residencies that improve student learning, build empathy and foster inclusive learning communities. Changing Worlds' unique curricula modules, culturally responsive pedagogy and arts-infused activities encourage cross-cultural sharing and learning, and result in visual and performing artwork. Through the power of story and art, students work cooperatively, learn from and about each other, and express themselves creatively, resulting in an environment of inclusion and imagination. Such an atmosphere is crucial for the development of empathy, as students explore a unique opportunity to access one another personally and draw connections between each other’s lives, while simultaneously gaining a broader perspective through the exploration of world cultures.
O Modelo: Demonstre através de um exemplo específico como sua solução faz a diferença; inclua suas atividades primárias
The program has two main components: in-classroom residencies and teacher professional development. During the 15-week residencies, students become historians, artists and community change agents by conducting interviews with family or community members to learn more about their culture, family and community histories while also exploring large themes like peace, culture and citizenship. The information gathered through the interview process is compiled and synthesized into an integrated literacy and art product. Throughout the residency, students explore the work of professional artists, learn and apply art techniques, and build cooperation and community.
The inclusion of professional development ensures that classroom teachers and teaching artists alike are comfortable with the curriculum and invest personally in its use. Per school site, Changing Worlds engages teachers per grade-level cluster, starting with grades 3-5 in year one and continuing with grades 6-8 the following year. The third year of the program includes the development of school leadership teams that will build school-wide culturally responsive curricula units to guarantee the lessons and pedagogical approaches can be easily repeated in the future.
The result of a three-year study demonstrated that students engaged in the program outperform their peers in cultural awareness, academic outcomes and personal connections to schools.
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?
Changing Worlds is not alone in offering arts education programming in the Chicago area – organizations like Urban Gateways and Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education work to offer similarly-structured programs. What makes us distinctive is our emphasis on the use of personal stories to promote cross-cultural awareness and build community. In the classroom, students rarely have an opportunity to share personal stories – we seek to provide an open, inclusive space of personal storytelling and art creation. Careful not to duplicate others’ efforts at the same school, we target schools without arts programming, where our programs can have the greatest possible effect.
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Defina sua organização, programa, serviço ou produto em 1-2 frases. [140 caracteres]
Changing Worlds is arts nonprofit with a mission to improve student learning, affirm identity and enhance cross-cultural understanding.
Identifique o que é inovador na sua solução em 1-2 frases. [136 caracteres]
LCC uses the power of personal stories to foster creative thinking, build positive social interaction and enhance cultural awareness.
IMPACTO SOCIAL
Temas relacionados à inscrição
Qual foi o impacto da sua solução até hoje?
The proposed program is an outgrowth of the organization's research-driven, three-year Literacy and Cultural Connections in-school program. In 2008, a longitudinal study was launched at three schools to measure the program’s impact on students' academic and social development. After three years of consecutive program participation, data revealed that CW students consistently demonstrated higher proficiency gains in arts learning, academic achievement and self and cultural awareness than their counterparts did. Just as important, the study also found that students’ interest in other cultures and development of empathetic behaviors increased, as did their appreciation for their own and others’ cultures. Since its inception the program has reached over 5,000 youth in the Chicagoland area, the program aims to build on this success and replicate it regionally.
Qual é a sua expectativa de impacto para os próximos 1 - 3 anos?
We expect the program to develop students on both an academic and a social emotional scale. Academically, we expect to see an improvement in reading and writing, along with – given past experience – improvement in academic test scores overall. Socially and emotionally, we expect to see students who are more aware of the struggles and challenges of others and that use the power of personal stories to be more inclusive and empathetic of others leading to less violent behaviors, more inclusive communities and a greater interest in their own and others’ cultures. By the end of the third year, we expect to see schools, youth and communities changed.
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.
We envision new schools engaging youth and teachers in culturally responsive and arts-infused practices for over 10,000 youth.
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os seis (6) meses
Atividade 1
Students will have begun to conduct interviews and explore other collaborative activities, developing socially.
Atividade 2
Half of classrooms will have begun work on a final work of art or performance to be shown in an exhibition or culminating event.
Atividade 3
80% of teaching artists and classroom teachers will indicate an effective and successful partnership guided by CW program staff.
Agora pense grande! Identifique qual seria sua meta de impacto para 12 meses
Schools will have been transformed into arts-infused learning hubs, with a blueprint for crafting arts and culture curricula.
Identifique as três maiores atividades que você terá de completar para obter a meta estabelecida para os doze (12) meses
Atividade 1
80% of students will demonstrate a greater ability to recognize individual & group similarities (using Illinois SEL Standards).
Atividade 2
95% of students will demonstrate their learning through an art production or performance to be presented at a school-wide event.
Atividade 3
75% of randomly surveyed teachers will indicate they have learned or applied new strategies into their classrooms due to LCC.
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]
According to photographer Kay Berkson, Changing Worlds' founder, "The seed of this project was a comment by a Native American mother as I photographed her child. She spoke of seeing people from many countries at her daughter’s school. 'I look at them and I wonder, ‘where did they come from; what’s their story?’ but I never know. No one talks about it.' Remembering her words, I thought about immigrant and refugee families I knew who wanted to share their stories, and about the personal connections and respect I felt as a result of that sharing. I believe that for both adults and children, sharing histories, acknowledging differences, and discovering commonalities benefit the tellers, the learners, and the larger community. In today’s political climate where anti-immigrant sentiment is widespread, anti-immigrant policies are sanctioned on local and national levels, and where ethnic tensions and hate violence are on the rise, these efforts are needed more than ever."
SUSTENTABILIDADE
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Whenever possible, Changing Worlds partners with social service organizations that already maintain a presence at the schools with which we work. Examples include America SCORES, Children’s Home and Aid Society, and SGA Youth and Family Services. These partnerships enable us to ensure that students’ unique personal needs are also being met.
Qual o perfil da equipe (colaboradores, voluntários etc.) que vai garantir o cumprimento das metas de crescimento identificadas por você na seção ‘Impacto Social’?
The program will be guided with help and coordination from our Director of Programs, who has experience playing multiple roles in the school system, from classroom teacher to principal. Oversight for the program will be provided by Changing Worlds’ Executive Director. Finally, our teaching artists are a talented group, all professional artists in their fields and with an average of 10 years’ teaching experience.
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