DFC Toolkit
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This document summarizes the Design for Change program, which empowers students to enact positive change in their communities. It describes how students in one school felt they didn't have enough time for play and organized themselves into football teams to practice and teach other schools. Their initiative expanded to coaching teams in 7 other schools and training additional coaches, bringing about revolutionary change through the students' imagination and enthusiasm. The program teaches 21st century skills like leadership, collaboration and problem solving to help students believe in their ability to create change.
DFC Toolkit
- 1. It is YOU who has the power to create the next generation of thinkers, collaborators, communicators, and innovators! It is YOU who can channelize their positive energies and make them believe that they are NOT helpless, that CHANGE is possible, and thatTHEYcan drive it. Today Design for Change gives you the simple formula to unleash every child's I CAN Superpower! Go ahead tell your children they are not the FUTURE, they are the NOW! and they don’t need permission to make the world a better place! Join schools in more than 40 countries and get your children be part this global movement.... led by children. Kiran Bir Sethi Founder, Design For Change OVER 100 PRIZES TO BE WON! INDIA 2017 what will your children change today? Dear EDUHERO, PARTNERS / PRIZES ADD YOUR LOGOS HERE
- 2. Things to remember Try and reach out to organizations or professionals working in your area of concern. Ask your teachers for help in contacting them and partnering with them. STEP 4 Share VISUALIZE CHANGE The clearer we can IMAGINE it, the better we can DO it! 1.BRAINSTORMING TOOLS • • 2.VOTE Vote for the ideas that best address each part of the situation to ‘design for change’. THINK FROM YOUR HEART The first step towards making change happen is to try to understand how people feel. 1.Observe Look at your surroundings closely. Observe things that bother you (hot spots) Create a map of your observations - map your world through these : • • 2.Vote Share your observations with the team & vote for the one situation that you would all like to see changed 4.Engage Now, go and talk to people who are involved and affected by the situation. Interview them to understand their concerns so that you can design your solution WITH them and not FOR them. “I CAN! NOW YOU CAN TOO!” Sharing your story with the world will inspire other children to say I CAN! 1.SUBMIT 2.INSPIRE Here are some ideas to spread the magic of your story :-) School assembly Newspaper article TV Show Radio Social media Performance • • MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN 1.PLAN 2.IMPLEMENT Go out and put your plan in to action. YES, YOU CAN! 3.REFLECT What 3 things did you learn about the situation? What 2 things did you learn about your team-mates? What 1 thing did you learn about yourself? • • • STEP 3 Do STEP 2 Imagine STEP 1 FEEL Are you ready? Make super squads of 5 team members. 4 stepsNow follow these . 3. dig deeper After selecting the issue, dig deeper to understand it better. Here are some questions that will help you do this. GETTING STARTED Introduce your students to the idea that changing lives can be meaningful and fun. A winning story in comic book format is included for your reference. Read it with your students to start a discussion on enabling change. You can show them more of our winning stories at stories.dfcworld.com ELIGIBILITY The DFC I CAN School Challenge is open to all school students. The ideal age group is 8 -13 years. The participation is absolutely free. All it needs is for you to tell your children they CAN, and they WILL :-) JURY PROCESS The DFC judges look for stories led by children, where they choose to tackle challenges that directly bother them. The judges also look for evidence of children engaging with their community to understand needs and perspectives while dealing with the challenge at hand. Higher points are allotted for generating a large variety of ideas, and selecting those that directly fulfill the needs of the people the children are designing a solution for. Help your students think beyond obvious answers like raising money or conducting a rally. • What resources will be required? What is the budget? How will you get the money? How many people will be required? How much time will it take? How will you document your work? • • • • • • Share your story with us at challenge.dfcworld.com Please follow the submission guidelines given on the site. You can either submit a photo story or a video story. Fill in the questions of every step and upload photos for each step in photo story or just paste the youtube link of your video incase of the video story. PLEASE REMEMBER You can upload max 4 photos for each step and the video should not be longer than 3 mins. • • • • • WHEN does it happen? WHERE does it happen? WHO is being affected? • • • What you SEE (eg. furniture, spaces, garbage etc.) What you FEEL (eg. bullying, exam pressure, etc.) What you HEAR (eg. language, discrimination, etc.) • All ideas are good ideas... don’t shy away from the wild ones. Build on the ideas of others – use the word ‘and’ instead of ‘but’. Illustrate your ideas for better clarity. Some tips to consider. Is your solution: - bold in nature - easy to replicate - long lasting - impacting maximum number of people SUBMIT YOUR STORY ON challenge.dfcworld.com • THINGS TO REMEMBER Try to think beyond the first or ‘obvious’ solution and collect as many ideas from as many people as possible. Be the CHANGE! Consider the following while planning: Choose your roles and responsibilities keeping your strengths in mind. Think about ways to sustain the impact of your project? • Dear mentor endorsements “Design for Change (DFC) is one of the most exciting and important educational programs that I know of, with the potential for impact in numerous countries around the globe....Our first wave of studies documents clear improvements in student empathy as well as challenges in enhancing problem solving abilities....DFC provides a valuable model for a wide range of educational innovations'. DR. HOWARD GARDNER Harvard Graduate School of Education DATES TO REMEMBER REGISTRATION 15TH AUGUST SUBMISSION 2ND NOVEMBER RESULTS 14TH NOVEMBER
- 3. Why should you participate? The DFC Program offers you a structured way to teach the 21st century skills like leadership, communication, collaboration and creative thinking. The program also enhances confidence and self-belief among children. Students move from a mindset of ‘CAN I?’ to ‘I CAN!’ Research proves that this confidence can help improve their academic score by up to 28%. (Boyatzis, R) just for kicks Design for Change School Challenge, India 2011 | Lokenete Yashwantrao Chavan Vidyaniketan, Pune, Maharashtra Watch the story : bit.ly/dfc-justforkicks "Okay! Okay! What do you want to do?" Play football! Sir, why do we have to study all the time and not do anything else? FEEL: Students realized that they could not play properly and there was no order. IMAGINE: To play and enjoy the game like a professional team. DO: The children formed teams and began training with each other's help. They developed a very good training program and started winning interschool matches. Manish, since you are a good player, can you teach us? To play properly, we have to make teams and divide roles. I cannot do this alone, Sir. Maybe I can have some students from our class with whom I can practice first and then we can teach the others. Stop, this is not working! This looks so difficult, I don't think I'll be able to do this. It is not difficult, Rhea. Think about it like this, after such a long time we got a chance to do something, we can't just give up without trying. Come on team, let's do it. Looking at your progress in sports, some other schools have expressed a desire to have their kids learn football. Wow Sir! Yes, we would love to coach them as well. This will be the first time that we will go to other schools. Yes Chaitali, and we will get a chance to make some new friends. They continued to coach their football team as well as 7 other school teams. They were able to expand their coaching team and train two coaches in each school to help them. These little kids brought a revolutionary change not only in their school, but also in 7 other schools with their imagination and zest. GET INSPIRED!