UEF • Learning for Well-Being

Learning for Well being

Elham Palestine

A Partnership Initiative for Systemic Change

By

Marwan Awartani

Universal Education Foundation

Palestine

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How can we make our school learning environment more conducive to the well-being of our students ?

Well-being is the realization of one’s physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual potential in relation to self, others and the environment

Nature of the Issue

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• Develop a conceptual framework and a credible survey instrument that captures students attitudes and perceptions towards various aspects of their school environment.

• An inclusive participatory design and development process involving students, policy makers, scholars, practitioners, parents, and civil society organizations

• Around 100 focus groups and consultations, in-depth interviews,

• Expert meetings involving partners from government, academia, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNRWA, CISCO, EDC,

Student Centered Well-being Based Metrics of the School Environment

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The Construct

Dimensions includes but is not limited to:

• Teaching and learning approaches and practices

• School climate

• Students public health and psychosocial well- being

• The quality of the relationships involved

• The scope of students engagement

• The school physical environment

• ...

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The baseline survey

• Establish a baseline svy.pdf

• A representative national sample of 10thgrade students

• A Self administered questionnaire

• Sample design allows for analysis against various

background variables:

• Focus groups with students to help understand some findings

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Dissemination and ripplesfrom diagnostics to action

Data analysis and data dissemination to policy makers, civil society organizations and the educational community.

Stimulate and orchestrate a national dialogue on “how are our schools doing on children’s well being?”

Mainstream the well being based prism to monitor the return on investment

Work jointly with policy makers on identifying priority areas for intervention:

Build consensus on these priorities and design a major national program: Elham Palestine

Build the Elham inclusive partnership carrier : education, health, sports, social welfare, UNRWA,..gov.ppt MOU.pdf

Elham Palestine

Elham stimulates, identifies, recognizes, documents, showcases, disseminates and helps replicate

Innovative initiatives that made a significant difference in students learning environment

Mind Map

Partnering with the System

System’s concurrence, systemic legitimacy: bottom up and top down

Systemic multitier organic engagement org.doc

A new language is being spoken: well-being, quality of the learning

environment, engagement, partnership, local community engagement

and ownership,..

An open call for initiative and enterpeunorship; investing in hope

Leveraging in kind resources: over 500 cadre

Gradual steady integration of the WB framework in policies and

strategies and rolling out best practices: the i-commission

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Sustainability Considerations

Elham localization: Elham local structures LC.doc

Local ownership and leadership: venture philanthropy

A wide reach-out campaign par.ppt

Partnering with media and engaging its various forms throughout the

process: the well being lingo. Journalists for well being

Elham Community and Capacity building program

Engaging children and youth learning for well being youth alliance

YT.ppt

Launch the Learning for well being forum

Sustained awareness raising Elham Harvest , national ceremony

and documentary films har.ppt cer.ppt

Three Examples

Baiteen school initiative; sound choices

Fufur Sour school initiative: eliminating an environmnetal hazard

The Kufur Niameh school initiative: school organic farming