Transcript Promoting School Health: Keys to Collective

Promoting School Health:
Keys to Collective Action
Facilitated by:
Steve Manske, EdD, Propel Centre for Population Health Impact
Caley Hartney, PHE Canada
Workshop with: Shaping the Future Conference, Kananaskis, AB
January, 2012
Purpose of This Session: How to…
Learn
from Each
Other
Act
Collectively
Stimulate
Action
Why collective action?
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Everything affects everything
else in one way or another.
Whether you are aware of that
or not does not change the
fact that this is what is
happening
John Woods
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Examples of Systems
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OBESITY SYSTEM MAP
http://kim.foresight.gov.uk/Obesity/Obesity.html
4E’s
(Ever
Active;
PHE
Canada)
CSH
(JCSH)
Partnerships
& Services
Healthy School
Policy
Teaching &
Learning
Evidence
Everyone
Education
Model
Social &
Physical
Environment
Environments
Systems for Promoting
Healthy School Communities
Components
Session Outline
• Five keys to collective action
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defining a common agenda
operating with shared measurement systems
conducting mutually reinforcing activities
engaging in continuous communication
ensuring there is a backbone support mechanism1.
• PHE Canada grants: refining the grants
application process
1Kania & Kramer, 2011. Stanford Social Innovation Review
A Success Story: Strive
• Large-scale social change requires broad crosssector coordination, yet we remain focused on
isolated intervention of individual organizations
• Brought together local leaders to tackle the
student achievement crisis and improve
education
• Tackled the student achievement crisis:
improvements on 34 of 53 success indicators
tracked
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Toward a Common Agenda
Truism
Start with
the end in
mind
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Toward a Common Agenda
Truism
What
goes
around
comes
around
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Toward a Common Agenda
Truism
Actions speak
louder than
words
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Toward a Common Agenda
• Truisms:
– Start with the end in mind
– What goes around comes around
– Actions speak louder than words
• Whose agenda anyway? Who are key
stakeholders?
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Toward a Common Agenda
Students, Parents
Educators, Health
Promotion, Other
Sectors
Healthy School
Community
Scientists
Policy /
Government
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What is the Common Agenda?
• Shared vision of success.
• What do key stakeholders want / need?
• List successful strategies for determining
common agenda.
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Five keys to collective action
1. defining a common agenda
2. operating with shared measurement
systems
3. conducting mutually reinforcing activities
4. engaging in continuous communication
5. ensuring there is a backbone support
mechanism
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Shared measurement
• Agreement on a common
agenda is illusory
without agreement on
the ways success will be
measured and reported.
- Kania
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Shared Measurement: Why?
• Ensures that all efforts remain aligned
• Enables the participants to
– hold each other accountable
– learn from each other’s successes and failures
• Learning oriented systems
• Link measures to indicators
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Healthy School Planner: Rubric
School has a
team that
plans for a
healthy
school
community
with
membership
covering a
variety of
perspectives
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Our school
does not
have a team
in place.
Our team
consists of 2
members or
just one
perspective
Our team
consists of
3+ members
from 2
perspectives
Our team
consists of 3+
members
from at least
3
perspectives
and a leader
Shared Measures across Your System
• What system
– Within a school
– Within a school-district
– Across the province
– Across provinces / territories
• Measures of process & outcome
• Don’t duplicate, collaborate
• Examples: Real Kids, Apple Schools
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Five keys to collective action
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
defining a common agenda
operating with shared measurement systems
conducting mutually reinforcing activities
engaging in continuous communication
ensuring there is a backbone support
mechanism
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Mutually Reinforcing Activities
Success depends on a diverse group
of stakeholders working together, not
by requiring that all participants do
the same thing, but by encouraging
each participant to undertake the
specific set of activities at which it
excels in a way that supports and is
coordinated with the actions of
others
Kania
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Common
Agenda
Shared
Measures
Mutually
Reinforcing
Activities
Examples of activities fitting
into overarching plan
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Five keys to collective action
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
defining a common agenda
operating with shared measurement systems
conducting mutually reinforcing activities
engaging in continuous communication
ensuring there is a backbone support
mechanism
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Functions & Methods of
Continuous Communication
• Building trust over time
– see that their own interests will be treated fairly
– Decisions made on best solution, not favouring
one group
• Creating common vocabulary
• Maintaining interest
• Mechanisms for continuous communication
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Five keys to collective action
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
defining a common agenda
operating with shared measurement systems
conducting mutually reinforcing activities
engaging in continuous communication
ensuring there is a backbone support
mechanism
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Backbone of Support
• Requires a specific set of skills to serve as the
backbone for the entire initiative
• Coordination takes time
• None of the participating organizations has any
time to spare
• Collaborations often fail because they lack
infrastructure
• Three roles: project manager, data manager, and
facilitator
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PHE Canada Infrastructure to Support
Health Promoting School Communities
• Insert slides on Grants
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Thank You!
Caley Hartney
PHE Canada
[email protected]>
Steve Manske
Propel Centre
[email protected]
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