Beyond the Bake Sale: Building Social Capital in Schools
1. Beyond the Bake Sale
Building Social Capital in our Schools
Dean Shareski
EIPS Technoganza
Edmonton, AB
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2. Exploring Social Capital
•What do we mean by social capital?
•What is the one thing?
•Is it worth my time?
•What are the ways we can build it?
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3. Exploring Social Capital
•What do we mean by social capital?
•What is the one thing?
•Is it worth my time?
•What are the ways we can build it?
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18. JOY
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19. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
20. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
21. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
22. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
23. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
I’m appearing to accept an
odious premise—namely,
that joy must be justified as
a means to the end of
better academic
performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
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46. ...social cohesion and personal investment in the community
...they tend to share the core idea "that social networks
have value"
47. ...social cohesion and personal investment in the community
...they tend to share the core idea "that social networks
have value"
...anything that facilitates individual or collective action,
generated by networks of relationships, reciprocity, trust,
and social norms
90. Rather than write my goal in a book, I decided to create my
own t-shirt. I have worn my t-shirt at CDNIS during staff
meetings and grade level assemblies. The response from
staff and students has been somewhat overwhelming as
many are keen to get a ‘daily’ update
Idea http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/school/ls/2012/09/10/to-learn-basic-mandarin-vocabulary-and-conversational-skills/
#4 Be a Learner....in Public
91. Rather than write my goal in a book, I decided to create my
own t-shirt. I have worn my t-shirt at CDNIS during staff
meetings and grade level assemblies. The response from
staff and students has been somewhat overwhelming as
many are keen to get a ‘daily’ update
Idea http://sites.cdnis.edu.hk/school/ls/2012/09/10/to-learn-basic-mandarin-vocabulary-and-conversational-skills/
#4 Be a Learner....in Public
99. “The real value of social media for scientists (aside from
teaching us to communicate concisely) may be that we are forced to think
about how to share ideas with a broader
audience, one that ultimately pays for most of our research: taxpayers. Public
conversations about our research make scientists accountable for delivering something of
value to those taxpayers. In an era of budget cutting, early-career scientists will have to be
effective ambassadors for the profession. This might manifest in conversations with family
members or with strangers sitting next to us on a plane, or it might mean posting videos on
YouTube or blogging about our on going research.
The days of scientists communicating
only with each other, in the languages of our individual disciplines,
and relying on science journalists to translate for the public, are rapidly
coming to an end.”
G. Small in Nature, vol. 479, page 141
114. “ When you hand someone a photo album
or a yearbook, the first thing they will do
is seek out their own picture.
Knowing that, the question is:
how often are you featuring the photo,
name, needs or wants of your customers
where everyone can see them?
” Seth Godin
128. “Lisa Brady, one of my favorite school
superintendents, decided not to wait for the
conversation to start on its own. She went into her
community in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and invited
parents into a book study of Tony Wagner’s The
Global Achievement Gap. Over a six-month period,
she went to parent meetings, coffees, and other
informal gatherings to listen to what the parents
reading the book had to say about it. They told her:
We have to change. The Dobbs Ferry parents were
among the first in New York to petition their state’s
board of education to reduce the number of
standardized tests.”
Idea #15 Book Club for Parents
132. the
These little conversations are
building blocks
for stronger
relationships between
school and home, and parent and
child.
Idea #18 Aggregate Using Storify