Step 4: Celebrating by Measuring Impact and Recognizing Success

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Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning with Jane Goodall and Roots & Shoots

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University of Colorado Boulder

Compassionate Leadership Through Service Learning with Jane Goodall and Roots & Shoots

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Join us for an action-oriented online teacher professional development course! This course will teach participants how to identify and implement a local service-learning campaign using the Roots & Shoots program model. The service learning curriculum equips participants with teacher resources to discover the differences between service-learning and community service, and apply the Roots & Shoots model to help youth have a voice in identifying and addressing needs in their community. At Roots & Shoots, our goal is to develop compassionate leaders to make the world a better place for people, other animals and the environment. Help us achieve that goal! Complete the course and mentor young people to lead change in their communities using community mapping, collaborating with stakeholders, and designing practical solutions in the form of campaigns. Connect young people to Dr. Jane Goodall’s message of hope while facilitating a sense of empowerment that comes from helping others!

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Step 4: Measuring Impact & Celebrating Success

Lessons with Dr. Jane2:06

Step 4: Celebrating by Measuring Impact and Recognizing Success3:54

Celebrating Campaign Success2:44

Revisiting the Compassionate Leadership Identity2:04

Rencontrer les enseignants

Hope Martinez
Youth Leadership Council Manager, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
the Jane Goodall Institute
Dr. Jane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE
Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute
the Jane Goodall Institute
Brad McLain
Research Scientist, Co-Director Experiential Science Education Research Collaborative, University of Colorado, Boulder
Center for STEM Learning
Erin Viera-Orr
Vice President, Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
the Jane Goodall Institute

Step four in the Root and Shoot process consist of two things,

measuring your impact and celebrating.

Throughout your campaign, you and your students will have

many opportunities to reflect on your work and the work of others.

Reflection allows students to think about and

communicate the significance of their actions.

Through reflection, they can apply the information they've acquired to a larger scale.

During each milestone, encourage students to reflect on their own beliefs,

new knowledge and connection to their community.

Here are several examples of critical milestone where

reflection is organically involved and indeed highly recommended.

Step one, getting engaged.

Ask students to reflect on the work that Dr. Jane has done and continues to do,

as well as the impact of other Roots and Shoots campaigns.

Is that work inspiring?

How and why?

Step two, map your community.

The community mapping guides provide reflection prompts

by asking students what they enjoy about their community,

how basic needs are met and what they identify as areas for improvement.

Additional reflection may include asking students to consider how

their project has an impact on all three community areas people,

animals and the environment.

And step three, taking action.

In addition to journaling, roleplaying,

group discussion and storytelling can also be reflective activities.

Some more creative examples we have seen include

smartphones for video journaling and starting blogs to record and publish their journey.

The goal is to take time throughout the campaign to look back on

the experiences and make personal connections to their activities.

And step four, celebrate.

Tracking accomplishments and making notes of what challenges were faced

helps young people to continuously improve and demonstrate what they have learned.

Celebrating and recognizing student success can also help them decide where to go

next and keep them engaged and excited over the long-term.

But let's focus on measuring your impact.

It is important before your project begins to define with

your students what success will look like and how you will measure it.

It is also important to acknowledge that success

sometimes means that a project didn't go as planned.

At the beginning of the campaign,

decide what data will be useful to demonstrate the impact of your specific campaign.

When identifying this data consider what

your goals are for the campaign and how you will determine,

document and share its success.

Throughout the campaign, have students mark milestones

and their progress against their goals and timelines.

Remember the example we gave of a horticulture teacher that

adapted her mapping exercise to focus on plants,

let's revisit that example and look at it in terms of measuring impact.

A horticulture teacher and her students developed a campaign around

plants and they had a plot of land that they needed to grow a garden on.

They adapted the traditional mapping exercise to

specifically map plants in their community through the lens of people,

animals and the environment,

and how these plants supported all three of these areas.

Based on their results, they decided on the garden to benefit butterflies.

They did an observational activity to see how

many and what types of butterflies called their community home.

Looking at this service campaign,

what is a good measure of impact?

Is it the number of people who are now aware of

local butterfly species and their habitats?

Is it the number of butterflies observed after completion of the service campaign?

Or, is it the number of new plants in the community that are beneficial to butterflies?

The answer, all of the above.

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