力求改变项目：4000公里外的Ejaad女孩，我们为什么要关心她们的生活？
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你能想象，这些精工的手绣挎包出自哪里吗？
繁复的构图，一丝不苟的针脚，丽而不俗的配色……它们出自那些身边战乱频仍，而且被限制了教育和工作权利的阿富汗女孩之手。
“赶了4个月路”的绣包
2021年底，一包这样的绣品从阿富汗出发，途径日本，一路颠簸了4个月，春节前才来到启明星中学科学老师Leah Newey手中。
收到挎包后，Leah老师在全体6年级学生面前展示出来，并辗转联系上组织阿富汗女孩制作这些绣包，学习读书写字的慈善项目Ejaad的工作人员，请她为6年级学生做了一场在线演讲，介绍阿富汗女性的生活现状，以及筹建一个新的刺绣中心、从而让更多阿富汗女孩获得教育和工作的计划。
对于一直成长在和平、富足环境里的启明星孩子们来说，这些来自陌生却并不遥远的阿富汗的信息所造成的冲击是强烈的。
孩子们惊讶于阿富汗女孩们的生活，更难以设想她们在物资并不富裕且不能得到充分教育的生活中能够静下心来，绣出如此繁复、工整的织品。
和Ejaad工作人员结束连线后，很多孩子留下来欣赏这些远渡重洋的绣包，一件件拿起，细细欣赏，然后小心放下……
为带来改变而学习！
启明星的老师为什么要费尽周折，把4000多公里之外的阿富汗女孩的手工艺品运到中国，为什么引导学生关心她们的生活？
因为这样的行动符合启明星培养社会创新者的使命，也是6年级学生正在进行的、隶属社会创新项目的力求改变项目。
力求改变项目是启明星的特色课程，通过探究、行动和反思，为学生提供实用和有意义的真实世界参与体验，鼓励学生理解并参与到社区服务行动中。
• 项目由所有6-9年级学生参加
• 学生两人或三人一组
• 双周固定时间上课
• 每学期完成一个感兴趣的项目
在力求改变课堂上，6年级学生在老师引导下，了解阿富汗女孩的真实生活，明确以呼吁性别平等和支持Ejaad女孩筹建新刺绣学习中心，获得公平教育机会为目标，进而分小组制定和实施计划。
学习进行了数周，最近，各个小组都结束了项目，在课堂上展示本组的成果。
有的小组制作了反映大家呼吁女性平等的海报，有的搭建了祝福阿富汗女孩能够接受公平教育的学校模型；还有些女孩子亲手编织了小手袋，计划在每月一次的社会创新市场上售卖，再把善款捐出来；三八国际妇女节当天，6年级学生还在午休时间售卖自己手工制作的烘焙美食和阿富汗女孩的绣包......
为了认可和鼓励孩子们的付出和努力，所有成果还将被集中评估、评奖！
学生们设计的海报和模型
三八国际妇女节当天在社区里售卖Ejaad女孩的绣包
为MYP的个人项目学习做好准备
海报、模型、筹款活动……学生们在拿出这些学习成果的过程中，实实在在锻炼着社会创新能力的方方面面：创造力、同理倾听、社会叙事、社交能力、设计思维……
这些能力的提升也为孩子们在10年级完成IB的个人项目（Personal Project）和高中阶段的IBDP学习做好准备。
力求改变项目和增益项目协调员、中学个体与社会老师Vincent Harris说：“IB项目旨在培养有求知欲、有见识、有爱心的年轻人。通过为他们提供培养跨文化理解和尊重的教育，使他们能够为创造更美好、更和平的世界贡献力量。
“在启明星，我们希望学生能够在本地乃至全球背景下认识并理解人和事。力求改变项目中的许多活动都聚焦于本地问题，还有一些活动例如阿富汗的Ejaad妇女项目则着眼于更加国际化的背景。
“启明星通过支持学生透过本地乃至全球视角来增进对问题的理解，使学生能够将注意力转移到对启明星社区、北京、中国重要的问题上，进而将视野扩展到全世界。我们通过这种方式建立了真正的跨文化理解和尊重。”
为了更高质量地支持学生完成力求改变项目，启明星将撬动更多更广泛的资源，由更多专业人士和资源支持学生：
• 社会创新团队成员主持项目，组织嘉宾演讲和社区服务，并提供整体项目反馈
• 启明星教师负责辅导和小组工作会议，确保学生完成作业，并解答相关问题
• 启明星家长志愿者协助指导和支持团队设计及推动项目实施
带领孩子们看见并参与到真实的世界当中，为世界带来积极的改变或影响，进而探索和丰富个体生命的意义，是力求改变项目努力的方向，让我们一起期待更多有意义的项目发生！
Can you imagine who has made these elaborate, hand-embroidered handbags?
Complicated compositions, meticulous stitches, and beautiful and elegant colors, these bags are made by Afghan girls who are denied access to education and employment and are living in a country hit hard by war.
Embroidered handbags
that “travelled for four months”
At the end of 2021, a package containing these handbags was sent from Afghanistan. It passed through Japan, and finally, after a four-month journey, was received by Leah Newey, a science teacher at Daystar’s secondary school, just before the Lunar New Year.
Upon receiving the package, Ms. Newey showed the handbags to all of the Grade 6 students. She also contacted the staff at Ejaad, a charity project that supports young Afghan women to make embroidered bags and to learn to read and write. She invited the staff to deliver an online speech to the Grade 6 Daystar students. The speech discussed the current life of Afghan girls and how they are raising funds to build a new embroidery center, which would help more Afghan girls receive an education and find employment.
For Daystar students who grow up in peaceful and privileged environment, learning about these girls living in a strange yet not-so-far-away country is lifechanging.
It’s hard for students to imagine what life is like for these Afghan girls. It is even more difficult for them to imagine how they are able to be calm and embroider such complex works of art when their lives lack basic goods and access to education.
After talking with Ejaad staff, many students stayed to admire the handbags that had travelled such a great distance. Several girls knelt down, picked up the handbags one by one, admired them carefully, then gently put them back down.
Learning to make a difference in the world
Why do people go through great pains to ship the handicrafts made by Afghan girls 4,000 kilometers away to China? And why should we care about their lives?
The reason is because this approach is in line with Daystar’s mission to cultivate social innovators. Daystar's Grade 6 students are currently engaged in the Project For Change (PFC), which strives to implement change through our Social Innovation Program.
The PFC is a part of Daystar’s curriculum that leads students to explore, act, and reflect. It also gives them practical and meaningful experience for how to fit in the world around them and encourages them to understand and take part in community service.
• All students in grades 6-9 participate
• 1 project each semester based on interests
• Students may work in groups of two or three
• 2-Week fixed class schedule
During the PFC class, teachers guided the Grade 6 students to better understand what life is like for Afghan girls. They also called for everyone to support gender equality and help Ejaad raise funds to build a new embroidery center. Then the teachers helped students carry out their groups’ plans.
After several weeks of study, each group completed their project and presented their results to the class.
Some teams made posters on gender equality, while others made models of schools where they hope Afghan girls could receive education. Some girls knit little handbags themselves, with the intention of selling them during the monthly Social Innovation Marketplace and donating the money to Ejaad to help fund the construction of an embroidery center and education classes. On March 8, International Women’s Day, Grade 6 students sold home-baked goods and the embroidered handbags made by Afghan girls...
To recognize their hard work and encourage them to keep forging ahead, we also assessed each project and presented awards.
Posters and model designed by students
Students were selling hand-made embroidered bags made by young Afghan women
Preparing students for the MYP Personal Project
Posters, models, fundraising. When students act on their plans and carry out learning objectives, they are actually developing all aspects of their social innovation ability: empathetic listening, social storytelling, emotional intelligence, and design thinking.
These abilities also help them complete the IB Personal Project in Grade 10 and prepare for the IBDP in high school.
PFC Coordinator and Enrichment Specialist Vincent Harris, who also teaches secondary school classes on Individuals and Society, said, "The IB develops inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through education that builds intercultural understanding and respect.
"At Daystar we want students to recognize and understand people and situations from a local context as well as a global context. Many of the activities in Projects for Change focus on local issues, a few of the projects have a more global context such as the Ejaad Women of Afghanistan.
"By supporting students to enhance both their understanding of issues through a local lens as well as a global lens, Daystar students are able to turn their attention to matters important to the Daystar Community, Beijing, China, as well as extending the vision beyond the national boundaries. In this way, we are truly building intercultural understanding and respect."
To help students complete the PFC in a high-quality manner, the project will leverage greater resources and provide access to more specialists:
• Members of the Social Innovation Team will host projects, organize guest speeches and community service activities, and provide overall project feedback.
• Daystar teachers will provide guidance for team meetings, help students finish their homework, and answer questions.
• Daystar parent volunteers will guide and support the students’ team design and help initiate the project.
The PFC is designed to guide students to participate in the real world around them, make a positive difference in the world, and explore and enrich the meaning of each person’s life. Let’s discover and create more meaningful projects in the future!
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启明星学校是一所使命驱动的学校，致力于支持每位学生培养改变和激励的勇气。启明星北京的三个校区共同构建了一个由 1.5-18岁学生组成的多元成长型社区。
Daystar Academy is a mission driven school committed to helping every student develop the courage to change and inspire. We have a diverse student body of children aged 1.5-18 at three campuses in Beijing.
泉发校区 为6岁以下儿童提供早期教育服务
三里屯校区 面向1-5 年级学生
北皋校区 涵盖 K-12 各年级
Our Daystar Early Center, serving our youngest students
Sanlitun campus accommodating
children grade 1-5 and our Beigao campus
serving children grade K-12
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