Beyond the Bake Sale: Building Social Capital in Schools

Beyond the Bake Sale
Building Social Capital in our Schools

Dean Shareski
EIPS Technoganza
Edmonton, AB
Oct 25,26, 2012 http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/elgincountyarchives/7128840781/

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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JOY

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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/

Feel-Bad Education
by: Alfie Kohn

"Why are our
schools not places
of joy?"


Feel-Bad Education
by: Alfie Kohn

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.

How do you live and share what you believe?

http://kggrade2.posterous.com/alyssas-minute

Joy
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...social cohesion and personal investment in the community


...they tend to share the core idea "that social networks
have value"


...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

...the bonds of our communities have withered, and we
are right to fear that this transformation has very real costs.

“Distrust is an
expensive vice”
Dave Weinberger “Too Big To Know”

“...there is no word
for
"accountability"
in Finnish.”

“Accountability is
what's left when you
take out
responsibility.”

“I wish we could stop
using the word
"accountable" and
instead talk about
"responsible". It
would make all the
difference.”

“If we create cultures of
trust and sharing,
accountability is built in,
not contrived or imposed,
it just is.”

Your Story is being told

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with or without you

Google Alerts

Idea #1 Know What People are Saying

When it comes to trust,
this does almost nothing

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

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

Idea #5 Answer Hard Questions...in Public

We have an
obligation to share

“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

http://kggrade22012-13.posterous.com/

Idea #6 Let Classrooms Tell Their Stories

http://cultureofyes.ca

Idea #7 Be a Narrative Champion

Idea #8 Use Your School Website to Share Better Stories

http://www.psdblogs.ca/184/

Idea #9 Focus on Learning

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Social is Significant

Idea #11 Engage in Conversation

Showing is Better Than Telling

“ 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

Idea #13 Be Intentional with Photos

Idea #14 Record Your Newsletters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN9dBnGFHI4
Idea #14 Record Your Newsletters

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mihuron/photoalbum/barn_raising.jpg

This is a Community Thing

“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

Idea #17 Involve Other Members of the Community

the
These little conversations are

building blocks
for stronger
relationships between
school and home, and parent and
child.

Idea #18 Aggregate Using Storify

http://connectedprincipals.com/archives/5824

http://paper.li/ECSD36/1325306961
Idea #19 Create a Newspaper with Paper.Li

#
Idea #20 Understand the Value of the Hashtag

Thanks
shareski.ca
@shareski
dean_shareski@disco
very.com

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