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Transforming Public Schools Within a Single Generation of Students

This presentation discusses the promise to equip students for life, the current failure rate, and the paradigm shift needed to transform schools. It emphasizes the importance of vocational calling, intentional prayer, building trust, community service, and student leadership. The timeline includes monthly prayer bulletins, workshops, church recruitment, school beautification projects, and the launch date of Back to School Sunday.

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Transforming Public Schools Within a Single Generation of Students

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  1. Transforming Public Schools • Within a Single Generation of Students • Presented by Jeremy Del Rio and Curt Gibson • www.2020Schools.net / www.JeremyDelRio.com

  2. Promises Kept? • Our promise to kids: “Stay in school, and you’ll be equipped for life.” • Yet generational failure40% read at grade level30% math at grade level • 1st graders in fall 2008:High School graduating class of 2020

  3. Paradigm Shift 20/20 School + 20/20 Student = 20/20 Churches

  4. Vocational Calling • What moves churches along the matrix is redefining youth ministry • “Anyone with relationship with a child is a youth minister.” • Equip teachers, faculty, parents, business owners, and students to view placement as strategic.

  5. http://www.achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/mainbottom_r1_c1.gifhttp://www.achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/mainbottom_r1_c1.gif Engaging the Schools Strategy http://www.achildgrowsinbrooklyn.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/mainbottom_r1_c1.gif

  6. Intentional Prayer • Individual / Personal Prayer and (or) Devotional • Corporate Prayer (during services) • Small Groups • Prayer Walks • Prayer Guides (outlines & issues)

  7. Relational: Building a “Resume of Trust” • Teacher / Faculty Breakfast • Appreciation Events • Principal Lunches • Student Appreciation / Recognition • Spring BBQ • Principle Presentation at Sunday Service

  8. Service • Paint the Town • School Clean-up / Beautification • Carnivals / Festivals • Sports Camp / Tournaments

  9. Presence • On-site Tutoring / Mentoring • After-School programs • Extracurricular Activities • Coaching • Advocacy / Parent Training • Leadership Classes • Student Organizing

  10. Policy • Earn right to be heard • Speak to macro issues, both at school and Dept. of Education level • Influence policy decisions from relationships of trust and relational credibility

  11. Engaging Students

  12. Student Leadership “The world’s best companies are realizing that no matter what business they are in, their real business is building leaders.” - Fortune, 10/01/07 “Mostly we found that to change a block, you had to get between 10 and 20 percent of the people engaged.”- Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children’s Zone “America’s Greatest Leaders,” US News & World Report 2005

  13. The Great Commission: A Leadership Development Mandate “Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’” - Matthew 28:18-20

  14. Leadership Development • “Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example ...” - 1 Tim 4:12 • Move students from troubled and chronically under-performing, past passing and average to stewardship and leadership

  15. 4 Years of Leadership • Year 1: 12 Student Leaders • Year 2: 24 Student Leaders • Year 3: 48 Student Leaders • Year 4: 96 Student Leaders • In a HS with 1000 students, this = 10%

  16. Leadership in H.S. • Student Council • Sports Teams • Arts Programs • Classrooms • Community Service

  17. Timeline & Milestones • Monthly prayer bulletins (all year) • Monthly 20/20 article series (all year) • Public Announcement (January) • Logo and branding strategy (January) • Website development (Jan & February) • Workshop presentations (available online and in groups) introducing vision, implementation strategy, and best practice tools (February)

  18. Church Recruitment (February - Sept) • Bridge building with schools and DOE (March - Dec) • Forum with educators and clergy and students regarding community based collaborations for school reform (March or April) • 15-20 school beautification projects in summer (June - August) • Back to School Sunday, Sept 14 (?) -- official 20/20 launch date • 71 churches adopting 71 schools by September (10% of 10% goal). 710 churches (10% of 7,100 churches in 5 boroughs) and 710 schools (50% of 1,400 NYC public schools) by Sept 2010 • School-based leadership curriculum piloted in 5-10 schools in Sept 2008

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