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1) Introduction
2) Project Goals and Themes
3) Methodology
4) Our Journey 2010-2012
5) Evaluation and Results
6) Looking Ahead
7) Questions and Discussion
Non-profit organization, founded 2008 in Sweden
The Executive Committee, consisting of four people working pro bono, is based in Sweden
A local team in El Salvador, including a full-time coordinator (as of January 2013)
35 individual members of 10 nationalities on 4 continents, one member organization
The project Reading for the Future, run by the local team in El Salvador
Collaboration with Swedish and Salvadoran schools, universities, companies, governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations
Total revenues 2012: 64 409 SEK
Total spending 2012: 34 144 SEK
Funded by donations from members and other dedicated individuals, and one company (so far)
Awarded as ”Amigo de El Salvador” by the Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2011
Size: 21 040 sq km (Värmland) Population: 6,3 million Coastline: 307 km Number of volcanoes: >25
Sources: nationsencyclopedia.com, Lonely Planet Nicaragua & El Salvador, 2008 m.fl.
HDI ranking: 105/187 GDP per capita US$: 6,020 (Sweden: 32,314; China: 6,200; Ukraine: 5,737; India: 2,993)
Income Gini coefficient*: 48.3 (Sweden: 25; US: 40.8; ; India: 33.4; China: 42.5)
Publ. exp. on education (% of GDP): 3.6 (Sweden: 6.6%, Ukraine: 5.3%; Sierra Leone: 4.3%)
*0=absolute equality, 100=absolute inequality Sources: UNDP
Number of murders/day: 12 (total count: 4,308)
Murders per 100 000 people: 69 (Sweden: 1; USA: 4; Mexico: 18; Colombia: 33; Honduras: 92)
Children physically maltreated at home: 79% Corruption (scale 1-100): 38 (Sweden: 88; Rwanda: 53; India: 36; Honduras: 28) Sources: UN Data http://data.un.org/, UNDP 2010, DN 2012, Transparency International , 2008, Lara Alfaro, et al., 2003
Project Mission
Promote self-reflection Encourage long-term thinking Empower dreams and ambitions for the future Strengthen school- school and home-school relations Develop social networks and capacity building
Leaders of violence prevention
Reading for
the Future
Democracy and human
rights
Peaceful conflict
resolution
Gender equality
Intercultural under-
standing
Environ-mental
sustainability
Letters to words, words to sentences, sentences to texts
Understand context
Analyze Compare Criticize
Act What does ”literacy” really mean?
Methodology
Heterogeneity
Interactiveness
Variation
Methodology
Small, weekly workshop groups Joyful and reflective reading and writing Group exercises Drama, art, music, sports Field trips Include the family Broad network building Sustainability, sustainability, sustainability!
Astrid Lindgren
Sven Nordqvist
Monica Zak
Isabel Allende
Horacio Quiroga
Alfredo Gómez Cerdá
Augustín Fernández Paz
And more
The Journey 2010-2012
Four partner schools
160+ children
Majority 11-13 years old
Urban and rural
2 hours workshops/week/group
Parental meetings
Field trip
Closing ceremonies
3-5 core facilitators
Total project costs 2012: $4,456
Evaluation
Reading diagnosis
Interviews before and after with participants, teachers and families
Weekly evaluations
The facilitators’ perspective
Results
Improved reading and writing skills More tolerance in the group Long-term thinking Study motivation Family interaction Long-term?
"Yes, I have changed. Before, I used to beat
other kids, now I'm more respectful towards
others.“
- Filipe, 12
"I remember what you said about books being our friends. Now,
if I feel sad or if I'm bored, I grab a book and start reading.“
- Ana, 12
"I've seen how the communication within our family has improved
during this project. We almost never talked, and now she tells us a lot
about what you've been doing in the workshops and she asks for help
with her school assignments".
- Older sister
"One day she started to ask me what I thought she
would be doing in 20 years... When I came to the
closing ceremony and saw her life plan I
understood why!”
- Orphanage worker
"I liked that we talked about the war. I didn’t know hardly anything about it, and I think it’s very important to discuss it in order to prevent it from happening again.“
- Elena, 15
“I have to work all the time.
This is the first time we spend a
whole day together, my son
and I.”
- Mother participating in field
trip
Ambition 2-5 years
”Stable” funding
4 full-time team members
15 part-time team members, of which one psychologist
Regional/international volunteer program
10-15 schools and up to 300 yearly participants in our basic program
Fully functioning leadership/ambassador program for former participants
Helping families to apply for educational scholarships and micro loans
Training teachers and parents
Project initiated in at least one other country
Training exchange trips Sweden-El Salvador
Database with didactic material
Schools for the Future, with our knowledge and experience from Sweden and El Salvador, is a voice in the educational discourse in both countries
Ambition 5-10 years
Collaboration with schools in all provinces
Methodology integrated into teacher training on a national level
School network for knowledge exchange and cooperation
Contribute to home-school relationship building on a national level
Continuous exchange with Swedish schools and universities
International expansion
Questions, ideas, feedback?
Minna Levin Co-Founder/President
Tel: +46 70 249 79 07 [email protected]
www.schoolsforthefuture.org
Schools for the Future
Schools4tFuture