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?

Thank you!

www.kleurrijkescholen.nllsondorp@kleurrijkescholen.nl