Abhilash Ravishankar Co-founder, yofa.org www.abhilash.name

Abhilash Ravishankar

Co-founder, yofa.org

www.abhilash.name

India, youth & social change Why youth? Youth Social Consciousness

This is about

Where did it go?

How do we get it back? Extra-curricular Integrate with the curriculum

Case Studies From: Community Lessons – By Julie Bartsch http://doe.mass.edu/csl/com-lesson.pdf Massachusetts Dept. of Education Massachussets Service Alliance Learn and Save America

From: Community Lessons – By Julie Bartsch

http://doe.mass.edu/csl/com-lesson.pdf

Massachusetts Dept. of Education

Massachussets Service Alliance

Learn and Save America

Kindergarten Case Study

It is all about learning!

Middle School Case Study

It’s all about learning!

What is different? Extra hour Brownie points Certificate An evaluation component ( x %) of regular courses/subjects

What does it serve? Multiple School-Community Interactions Imagine! Students Not thrust on them Grow up to be Socially responsible A grassroots approach to social awareness

Multiple School-Community Interactions

Imagine!

Students

Not thrust on them

Grow up to be Socially responsible

A grassroots approach to social awareness

Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006 on Creativity … the process of having original ideas that have value … comes about through the interaction of different disciplinary ways of seeing things .

Scale [ All word-clouds created at wordle.net ] 1 project per class per year 10 classes per school 5 schools in a locality 10 localities in a city = 500 projects every year in each city