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D2BG eClub Meeting 8 July 23 re. Priority Project Initiatives for 23/24
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Dare to be Great eClub Mtg 8 July 2023: Priority Project Initiatives for 2023/24
The focus of this meeting was to provide information on 2 major initiatives the club is exploring for the 2023/24 Rotary Year:
1. The Read for a Better World Pledge Campaign: The world has experienced a serious decline in education outcomes as a result of COVID (a roughly 30% increase in the number of 10-year-olds unable to read effectively to the point where almost 2 out of every 3 ten-year-olds cannot read effectively. There are examples of how to be able to get almost every illiterate person, even as young as 5 or 6 able to read effectively in less than 4 months at just one hour a day. Therefore is no reason why every child and youth in school should not be able to read. Yet it is estimated that among those children and youth who cannot read effectively, some 50% of them are currently students in schools. This initiative calls for getting every teacher in every school in the world to pledge to get 100% of their students able to read effectively by the end of 2024 and creating a platform to present all learning aids for all languages in all parts of the world that can help achieve that. (This initiative is focused on children and youth currently in school. There are other initiatives focused on reducing the number of children not in school worldwide.)
2. The Close the Education Gap Developed Countries. (There is a separate project focused specifically on closing the gap in developing countries.) Currently, there is a huge gap in education outcomes in primary schools in many developed countries, usually related to poverty. A statewide study in one state in the US showed that, on average, 92% of the students in the top 10% of primary schools were at grade level while only 7% of students in the bottom 10% of schools were at grade level. Worse, schools in the poorest communities tended to stay in the bottom 10% year after year. This initiative intends to demonstrate that it doesn't have to be that way by taking a meaningful number of primary schools that had not managed to get even 10% of their students to grade level in most of the past 10 years and helping them get the majority (70+%) of their students to grade level in just one year without any parallel community or family initiatives or increase in funding, etc. This would prove that there is no excuse for any school not getting the majority of their students to grade level and put pressure on every school currently not achieving that to change their expectations and perhaps methods.
These are just 2 projects the club is pursuing with priority. Other projects have been defined that are aimed at ensuring all students are effective problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindset, effective independent learners prepared for lifelong learning, etc., and also projects aimed at closing the economic gaps between developing countries and regions and developed ones.
Please note that anyone can join a planning committee for one of these (or other) initiatives by contacting Bill Graham at WhatsApp +1 908 377 5490.
The focus of this meeting was to provide information on 2 major initiatives the club is exploring for the 2023/24 Rotary Year:
1. The Read for a Better World Pledge Campaign: The world has experienced a serious decline in education outcomes as a result of COVID (a roughly 30% increase in the number of 10-year-olds unable to read effectively to the point where almost 2 out of every 3 ten-year-olds cannot read effectively. There are examples of how to be able to get almost every illiterate person, even as young as 5 or 6 able to read effectively in less than 4 months at just one hour a day. Therefore is no reason why every child and youth in school should not be able to read. Yet it is estimated that among those children and youth who cannot read effectively, some 50% of them are currently students in schools. This initiative calls for getting every teacher in every school in the world to pledge to get 100% of their students able to read effectively by the end of 2024 and creating a platform to present all learning aids for all languages in all parts of the world that can help achieve that. (This initiative is focused on children and youth currently in school. There are other initiatives focused on reducing the number of children not in school worldwide.)
2. The Close the Education Gap Developed Countries. (There is a separate project focused specifically on closing the gap in developing countries.) Currently, there is a huge gap in education outcomes in primary schools in many developed countries, usually related to poverty. A statewide study in one state in the US showed that, on average, 92% of the students in the top 10% of primary schools were at grade level while only 7% of students in the bottom 10% of schools were at grade level. Worse, schools in the poorest communities tended to stay in the bottom 10% year after year. This initiative intends to demonstrate that it doesn't have to be that way by taking a meaningful number of primary schools that had not managed to get even 10% of their students to grade level in most of the past 10 years and helping them get the majority (70+%) of their students to grade level in just one year without any parallel community or family initiatives or increase in funding, etc. This would prove that there is no excuse for any school not getting the majority of their students to grade level and put pressure on every school currently not achieving that to change their expectations and perhaps methods.
These are just 2 projects the club is pursuing with priority. Other projects have been defined that are aimed at ensuring all students are effective problem solvers with an entrepreneurial mindset, effective independent learners prepared for lifelong learning, etc., and also projects aimed at closing the economic gaps between developing countries and regions and developed ones.
Please note that anyone can join a planning committee for one of these (or other) initiatives by contacting Bill Graham at WhatsApp +1 908 377 5490.