Đi học sẽ rất tốt cho bạn. Thông điệp tưởng chừng như đơn giản này đang được Mattie C. Stewart Foundation triển khai qua dự án The Choice Bus (tạm dịch là Chuyến xe lựa chọn). Bạn có quyền bỏ học và chẳng làm nên trò trống gì hoặc đi học để có một tương lai xán lạn hơn. Dự án được thiết kế để giúp học sinh không bỏ học. Lớp họp là 1 chiếc xe buýt được chia làm hai, nửa trên là lớp học cho 24 học sinh, nửa sau được biến thành một phòng giam phạm nhân. Sau khi xem một cuốn video tâm sự của các tù nhân rằng họ đã lựa chọn sai lầm khi bỏ học. Video cũng cung cấp số liệu thống kê rằng 75% phạm nhân (ở Mỹ) không học hết cấp 3, các em sẽ được ‘‘trải nghiệm’’ phòng giam phạm nhân như thế nào: học nội quy nhà tù, thời gian biểu của một phạm nhân. Dự án là nỗ lực giảm nạn bỏ học ở Mỹ.
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A POWERFUL MESSAGE
Program encourages students to make the right choices
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:04 pm
Education has power. That's the message of the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation and its The Choice Bus mobile learning tool.
"Staying in school may be the most important choice in your life," Lynn Smelley, program manager for the Foundation said Friday when he visited Scottsboro Junior High School with The Choice Bus.
Smelley spread the message of staying in school for seventh graders at the school. He gave them a brief talk, showed a four-minute video and let the students tour a replica of an average prison cell.
The jail cell is located in the back half of the customized school bus. The front contains seating for up to 24 students and a large screen television.
His message was simple and to the point.
"Stay in school," he said. "Seventy-five percent of people in prison don't finish high school."
The Choice Bus — actually three of them — tour the country. At each stop people like Smelley encourage students. The message is basic, education matters and the lack of it, more often than not, has negative consequences.
The video brought that point home to students. It included testimonials from prisoners who had dropped out of school. Each inmate featured said the decision was the wrong choice and led to their winding up in prison.
When the video was completed a curtain was removed displaying the tiny jail cell with a bunk bed, toilet and lavatory.
"Your privacy, your privileges and your choices are taken away at the front door of the prison," Smelley said.
Students then tour the jail cell. They experience how small and confining it is, read signs on the wall describing a typical day in the life of a prisoner, and the rules that might apply.
The Choice Bus tour, sponsored in part by State Farm Insurance Company, is appropriate for sixth through tenth grade students. It is designed to help reduce the dropout rate in schools.
"We are extremely proud to sponsor The Choice Bus and provide this innovative tool to schools and communities," Emily Clark, a public affairs specialist with State Farm, said. "The Choice Bus is making a real difference in helping students realize the importance of completing their high school education and we sincerely believe that the best insurance for the future prosperity of our communities is an educated and workforce ready population."
State Farm's sponsorship provides schools with the InsideOut Toolkit that includes a teacher's guide, stay in school pledge cards and copies of a 26-minute video, InsideOut. The video more fully tells the story of the devastating and lasting effects of dropping out of school by inmates who live with the choice everyday. The documentary and toolkit have reached more than 9 million people in 47 states and Canada.
The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation strives to get students to understand the benefits of staying in school. The Choice Bus is one of the ways the organization stresses the power of education.
MCSF was founded in 2007 to help educators, community leaders and others reduce the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate. Dr. Shelley Stewart, the Founder and President of the organization, named it in honor of his mother.
Stewart was born and raised in segregated Birmingham. He took to heart the encouragement of Mamie Foster, his first grade teacher, and that of his brother, Samuel.
"Learn to read, get an education and you can be anything you want to be," Foster said.
His brother spurred Stewart on with a simple philosophy, "We, us and others can make one idea work."
It has. Stewart is determined to reduce the dropout rate. He knows that teachers still play an important role in a child's life and his non-profit organization has developed strategies to help educators and others encourage students to stay in school.
Stewart knows education — and the lack of education — is closely connected to the choices people make in life. More often than not those with more education make better choices, which includes friends, avoiding gangs, being respectful and pursuing career interests.
During the session students learn that high school graduates make considerably more over the course of a lifetime and that those with advanced education can expect to make more than $1 million more than dropouts.
The Choice Bus helps students to understand the consequences of dropping out of school, stimulates discussion about the importance of making good choices, encourages a commitment to finish high school and to begin thinking early on about career options, demonstrates the relationship of education to earning potential and teaches students about the opportunities that await those who stay in school.
After completing the program students are asked to make a pledge to themselves. The pledge includes getting an education, making good choices, graduating from high school, choosing friends wisely, following dreams regardless of challenges encountered and following a path that will provide a good life and a brighter future.
As students quietly exited the bus, Scottsboro Junior High School counselor Nancy Gilliam said, "it's good program."
That's the response Dr. Stewart was hoping for when he began the program.
MCSF also sponsors bewhoyouwannabe, a program designed to bring mentors into the lives of children in neighborhoods where hope is hard to find. It shows that staying in school is a requirement to being successful in most careers.
For more information on the Foundation visit www.mattiestewart.org.
© 2012 The Daily Sentinel. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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A POWERFUL MESSAGE
Program encourages students to make the right choices
Posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:04 pm
Education has power. That's the message of the Mattie C. Stewart Foundation and its The Choice Bus mobile learning tool.
"Staying in school may be the most important choice in your life," Lynn Smelley, program manager for the Foundation said Friday when he visited Scottsboro Junior High School with The Choice Bus.
Smelley spread the message of staying in school for seventh graders at the school. He gave them a brief talk, showed a four-minute video and let the students tour a replica of an average prison cell.
The jail cell is located in the back half of the customized school bus. The front contains seating for up to 24 students and a large screen television.
His message was simple and to the point.
"Stay in school," he said. "Seventy-five percent of people in prison don't finish high school."
The Choice Bus — actually three of them — tour the country. At each stop people like Smelley encourage students. The message is basic, education matters and the lack of it, more often than not, has negative consequences.
The video brought that point home to students. It included testimonials from prisoners who had dropped out of school. Each inmate featured said the decision was the wrong choice and led to their winding up in prison.
When the video was completed a curtain was removed displaying the tiny jail cell with a bunk bed, toilet and lavatory.
"Your privacy, your privileges and your choices are taken away at the front door of the prison," Smelley said.
Students then tour the jail cell. They experience how small and confining it is, read signs on the wall describing a typical day in the life of a prisoner, and the rules that might apply.
The Choice Bus tour, sponsored in part by State Farm Insurance Company, is appropriate for sixth through tenth grade students. It is designed to help reduce the dropout rate in schools.
"We are extremely proud to sponsor The Choice Bus and provide this innovative tool to schools and communities," Emily Clark, a public affairs specialist with State Farm, said. "The Choice Bus is making a real difference in helping students realize the importance of completing their high school education and we sincerely believe that the best insurance for the future prosperity of our communities is an educated and workforce ready population."
State Farm's sponsorship provides schools with the InsideOut Toolkit that includes a teacher's guide, stay in school pledge cards and copies of a 26-minute video, InsideOut. The video more fully tells the story of the devastating and lasting effects of dropping out of school by inmates who live with the choice everyday. The documentary and toolkit have reached more than 9 million people in 47 states and Canada.
The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation strives to get students to understand the benefits of staying in school. The Choice Bus is one of the ways the organization stresses the power of education.
MCSF was founded in 2007 to help educators, community leaders and others reduce the dropout rate and increase the graduation rate. Dr. Shelley Stewart, the Founder and President of the organization, named it in honor of his mother.
Stewart was born and raised in segregated Birmingham. He took to heart the encouragement of Mamie Foster, his first grade teacher, and that of his brother, Samuel.
"Learn to read, get an education and you can be anything you want to be," Foster said.
His brother spurred Stewart on with a simple philosophy, "We, us and others can make one idea work."
It has. Stewart is determined to reduce the dropout rate. He knows that teachers still play an important role in a child's life and his non-profit organization has developed strategies to help educators and others encourage students to stay in school.
Stewart knows education — and the lack of education — is closely connected to the choices people make in life. More often than not those with more education make better choices, which includes friends, avoiding gangs, being respectful and pursuing career interests.
During the session students learn that high school graduates make considerably more over the course of a lifetime and that those with advanced education can expect to make more than $1 million more than dropouts.
The Choice Bus helps students to understand the consequences of dropping out of school, stimulates discussion about the importance of making good choices, encourages a commitment to finish high school and to begin thinking early on about career options, demonstrates the relationship of education to earning potential and teaches students about the opportunities that await those who stay in school.
After completing the program students are asked to make a pledge to themselves. The pledge includes getting an education, making good choices, graduating from high school, choosing friends wisely, following dreams regardless of challenges encountered and following a path that will provide a good life and a brighter future.
As students quietly exited the bus, Scottsboro Junior High School counselor Nancy Gilliam said, "it's good program."
That's the response Dr. Stewart was hoping for when he began the program.
MCSF also sponsors bewhoyouwannabe, a program designed to bring mentors into the lives of children in neighborhoods where hope is hard to find. It shows that staying in school is a requirement to being successful in most careers.
For more information on the Foundation visit www.mattiestewart.org.
© 2012 The Daily Sentinel. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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