Each week we intend to showcase one of the DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL clubs in our Club of the Week! feature. Club of the Week! is not a competition. Rather it is a way for us to profile, consolidate and share just some of the amazing and interesting work being done by each club.
This week's Club of the Week! is Stepping Stones International. SSI is located in the small village of Mochudi just outside Gaborone in Botswana. The club is ably led by Tshepo Paledi, Lyan Sebeke, Fotoula Theodoulou and Gaone Keakile (from left to right in the photo) and are partnered with Promise Neighborhoods in Indianola, Mississippi in the US.
The SSI team have shared some great partner exchanges. In particular, they created a simple Getting to Know You form for kids to fill out about themselves with fields like "One thing I enjoy doing" and "One thing interesting or unique about me". Not only did this provide information about the kids to their partners but it did so in a wonderfully authentic way - through the kids own handwritten responses.
Also, this template approach saved the Club Leaders time and effort. They were able to quickly and easily scan and upload each kid's information to the Community of Practice.
We liked this form idea so much that the DSG team is going to bake it into the rest of the programme and provide quick and easy templates for leaders and kids to fill out to help make the partner exchange process simpler and quicker.
Here is the first template to help your kids share about themselves with their partners. Download it in PDF (545KB) or MSWord (582KB) format.
Thank you SSI for this amazing idea and well done on being our Club of the Week!
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