transparant schools as community enterprises bringing out what’s in and bringing in what’s out...
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Transparant schools as community enterprises
Bringing out what’s in and bringing in what’s out
2nd Social Entrepreneurship Conference CyprusFebruary 13th 2013
Stichting Kleurrijke Scholen, Lonneke Sondorp, The Netherlands
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Combatting schoolsegregation
Holland : 700 primary schools 50-100% migrant)
Parents building mixed schools in Holland
Peer-to-peer parental groups
Improve educational quality
60-80 volunteer parental groups
2006-2012: 40 schools sustainably desegregated!
Empowerment parents-schools-community
Parental initiative
Bring in transparancy:
through parents,
involvement of entreprises,
and stakeholders
Creating excellent well-connected schools?
SROI
• Increase of house value, quality of life, talent development, efficiency (!)
• Decrease of unemployment, criminality, costs
SchoolBuurt
Empowerment and imagebuilding through neigbourhoodconnections
• Playground-gardening projects• Theatre-projects• Pedagogical projects• Elderly people: neighbourhoodgrannies• Learn/workprojects parents
Government:Local educational coöperative policy and funding
• Sharing schoolbuildings-and -facilities
• Common educational policy focussed on regional labour situation
Government:Parents and pupils well-represented and trained in
schoolcouncils
Sharing neighbourhood-resources
• Workspace parental entrepreneurs in school
• Sharing employees: schooljanitor+flatporter
=‘neighbourhoodranger’
• Schoolyard=communitypark
maintenance by inhabitants
Entrepreneurship in schoolteams
• Peer consultation• Coöperative
teachingmaterial- development
• Mentoring young teachers
• Company-internships for schoolleaders
• Parents and companies as guest teachers
Schools miss the boat to civil society movement!Needed:
• Leadership• Vision• Courage• Thinking out-of-the box• Outside orientation, welcoming..• Cyprus?