tiged course education for social innovation - session 3

Welcome to Session Three

With a partner in your cluster, share the big idea behind your social innovation project. Share a challenge and invite feedback from your partner with ideas and

perspectives on how you might overcome the identified challenge.

Refining Our Focus

Did you complete our check-in survey? http://tdsb.tiged.org/innovation/quizzes/take/253

Adam ThompsonDublin Heights E & M School

After looking into different social innovators and exploring the Window to the World cards, we came up with different local, global and environmental problems that we may choose to address.

BLUE Cluster

Dean RobertsAgnes Macphail Public School

Grade ⅞ students brainstorming ideas for their class project: Building an IT platform that can be used to promote awareness about issues that affect the community. When done, this platform will be made available to other classrooms within the school.

The first issue, chosen by the students, will be to investigate the safest mode of transporting tar sands oil through the community; the number 9 pipeline or freight trains?

Orange Cluster

Kate BuddInglewood Heights Jr. P.S.

tweets about sugar and its impact

Green Cluster

Patrick McCartneyInglewood Heights Jr. P.S.

Bottled Water Free Zone Campaign

IDESIGN framework

Green Cluster

Jenny Zhang & Melissa HughesHighland Heights J.P.S.

Girls Issues Through Google Docs

Sharing examples including TOMS shoes & eyeglasses, Because I Am A Girl, Dove Campaign, The Story of Bottled Water.

Girls eager to learn about issues that affected girls.

Researching facts.

“Onto something inspiring!”

Green Cluster

Janis JonesBrimwood Boulevard Jr. P.S.

Four topic areas identified: 1) Global poverty2) Animal rights3) Health & Smoking4) Bullying

Four Corners Activity (‘vote with your feet’), Graph Tally

Animal Rights selected. Books about endangered species. Article: “13 Species We Might Have to Say Goodbye to in 2015” by Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Questions generated with excitement.

Purple Cluster

what can we really ? “YES we have ideas, hopes & dreams...but we don’t have any money!?”

what can we really ? What can we achieve with what we

already have? Do we recognize our assets?

photo source: http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/data/upimages/Glass-half-full-web.jpg

Resource Mapping is a form of creating your budget

How do you assess what resources you have and what you need?

Mapping Assets in Your Community

● A map or inventory of the resources, skills and talents of individuals, associations and organisations

Source: Brighter Futures Together, http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk

● Discovery and assembly of links between different parts of the community, associations, and agencies

● Used to revitalise relationships and mutual support, rebuild community neighbourhoods, and rediscover collective power

Resource Mapping

Map Assets in Your Community● Used to revitalise relationships and mutual support,

rebuild community neighbourhoods, and rediscover collective power

Source: Brighter Futures Together, http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk

○ Can stimulate and motivate change, when: people are disengaged with community, a community is fractured, disempowered associations, cynicism within agencies, when communities and staff want to change and need to see the world differently in order to discover how they could.

Resource Mapping

can stimulate & motivate change

Source: Brigher Futures Together, Assets Diagram http://www.brighterfuturestogether.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/assets-diagram-2-large.jpg

Get the Word Out

What skills do social innovators need to make their projects visible?

How do you foster interest and excitement within your school and community?

Making a Pitch

A Quick Review

Wisdom from a silly video with Sean Wise,Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University.

● The Pain Statement; what problem will you solve?● The Value Proposition; how does your venture solve it?● Succinct; Easy to understand; Greed-inducing; Irrefutable

Source: The Elevator Pitch, Sean Wise, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0tan49rmc

Making a Pitch

A Quick Review

Pitch Perfect, the anatomy of a pitch...

● The need or issue you’re addressing● Describe your mission and how it will be accomplished● Identify how your offering is different from others● Share the value of your project, or why they should care● Close with the call to action

Source: Leading Community, Pitch Perfect, Sprout Self on TIGedhttp://sproutself.tiged.org/sproutself/assignments/?id=1044061

Making a PitchIndependent time to prepare key messages for pitch presentation.Within clusters you will present your project in a pitch to a defined audience!Provide each other with constructive feedback.

The anatomy of a pitch...

● What is the need or issue you’re addressing

● Describe your mission and how it will be accomplished

● Identify how your offering is different from others

● Share the value of your project and why they should care

● Close with the call to action

Making the Ask

● Negotiation skills

● A negotiation checklist

● Negotiation style advice

Source: Making the Ask, Sprout Self on TIGed http://sproutself.tiged.org/sproutself/assignments/?id=1044069

Incorporating FeedbackIndividual Time

Using the feedback provided within your cluster take individual time to incorporate it.

Refine and revise your pitch as needed

A Discussion

How could we evaluate and document the impact of our social innovation projects?

Storytelling and Impact Evaluation

Source: Logic Model Workbookhttp://www.innonet.org/client_docs/File/logic_model_workbook.pdf

A DiscussionHow might we evaluate and document the impact of our social innovation projects?

Storytelling and Impact Evaluation

Source: A Developmental Evaluation Primer, Jamie A. A. Gamble, The J. W. McConnell Family Foundation, http://www.mcconnellfoundation.ca/assets/Media%20Library/Publications/A%20Developmental%20Evaluation%20Primer%20-%20EN.pdf

Technical Learning

● Follow-up: Post your project description to the TIGed virtual classroom Project Page

● Students to pitch the idea in 30 seconds or less, record & upload

● Read three pitches by other people and complete the statements “ I like” “I wonder” “I have”

● The pitch as a basis for further opportunities

http://tdsb.tiged.org/innovation/projects/

At a glance...

Where we’ve been

Where we are now

Where we’re going

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