“力求改变的一周”回归：心中有爱，让孩子们随时起跑！ “Week for Change” Returns

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启明星的中学视觉艺术教室里，有这样几件铝丝编织的摆件：

它们出自一位2019年接受了心脏移植手术的孩子朱晨昊之手。

那一年，启明星社区通过“力求改变的一周”为他募款，支持他复健。这些手工是他们一家对启明星关爱行动的回应。

刚刚过去的这个春节前，晨昊妈妈把这些礼物寄到启明星并告诉我们，晨昊已经读职业高中了：“（启明星的）孩子们帮我们那么多，我们忘不了这些可爱的孩子们！”

帮助朱晨昊是启明星坚持的众多慈善行动之一，体现着启明星服务和关爱的核心价值观。学生们通过这些行动学习关爱他人，和身边的世界建立联结，带来积极的改变，而这些行动也是启明星社会创新项目的重要部分。

因此，即便疫情带来种种不便，5月16日至20日，我们还是坚持让启明星重要的传统——“力求改变的一周”回归：

不同寻常的回归

5月16日开始的一周内，“力求改变的一周”同时在启明星三里屯和北皋校区的小学部、中学部在线启动。

每一天，孩子们利用在线学习的课间，按计划开展活动，了解他们各自支持的慈善或公益机构，并为它们做宣传：

从周一到周五，孩子们通过参加各种各样的活动，深入了解要帮助的机构。他们反思相关的社会问题并思考应对的方法，进而采取实际的行动，在践行核心价值观的同时，也启发和锻炼社会的创新意识与能力——所有这些都体现了启明星社会创新项目框架的设计。

社会创新项目框架

棒！少年

中学生支持的机构是强棒天使。这是一家专为少数民族贫困少年提供免费教育和棒球培训，以及住宿的慈善机构。棒球是启明星的专长运动项目之一，一些学生还曾和强棒的孩子交手过！这都让启明星的学生对强棒天使怀有特别的感情。

老师组织学生们和强棒的孩子连线，倾听他们的故事，观看专门讲述强棒故事的纪录片。

强棒少年的遭遇深深打动了启明星的孩子们。他们在老师引导下，培养属于社会创新能力范畴的同理倾听和社会叙事能力，为强棒设计宣传的途径和手段：有PPT，有博客，有可以在朋友圈分发的电子海报，还为他们组织募款：

“我生长在城市里，没有经历过他们的生活，但是我和他们有同一个爱好，喜欢运动……我从小踢足球，大大小小的比赛经历过很多场，有时赢，也有时输。我从来不为输掉比赛而气馁，也不为赢了比赛而骄傲。我最了解他们那种挫败后的感觉，也理解他们赢得比赛时的那种兴奋。永不言弃是我们共有的品格，也是我们最宝贵的财富。” 6年级学生李泓绪在PPT里这样写到。

姚松乔担任启明星社会创新项目顾问。她欣喜地观察到这样自然而然的链接：“孩子们找到了自己和强棒少年的一些共同点，比如都热爱运动，参加比赛都会坚持不懈之类的情感上的链接点！”

周四，6年级至9年级学生的力求改变项目开展“云”展示。老师、同学、家长们来到直播间，访问自己感兴趣的项目，听孩子们阐述自己的研究发现和行动。

这些项目或者关注可持续经济、自然保护，或者聚焦社会发展、人类幸福，都是关于身边问题及其解决方式的探讨。创意满满的网站、视频，还有活动......孩子们所做的这一切都让人欣慰！

小火苗，大能量

小学生们年龄稍小，但热情不减，他们同样全心投入力求改变的一周。

北皋小学生支持的是爱心蓝天孤儿康复之家。在老师带领下，孩子们尝试换位思考，想象孤残儿童的生活。他们把自己的反思写在表格里，上传到学习系统Seesaw。

3年级学生 李海月

在行动阶段，孩子们发挥了自己的创造力。比如李海月就在小区里发起义卖二手书、小文具！

一些学生还捐出自己本学年最棒的艺术作品用于拍卖，所得善款都用于为爱心蓝天孤儿康复之家的孩子购买奶粉。

三里屯小学生支持的是永续全球环境研究所（GEI）。孩子们在线访问了这家机构的项目经理赖冰钰，不仅了解这家机构，理解了要保护中国自然环境不能错失的机会，也探讨了和可持续发展、以及时下热点的粮食问题相关的杜绝浪费食物的计划。他们为研究所写下感谢的话，感谢他们为保护地球所做出的贡献，又写下承诺卡，为自己“绿色”生活的行动许下诺言。

老师引导孩子做这些活动同样遵循社会创新项目框架，锻炼了他们的社交能力，激发他们为身边社区带来改变的意识和热情，也竖立了他们对自己的小小信心。

不散的庆祝 

5月20日“力求改变的一周”落下帷幕，也在一场线上直播的庆祝晚会中迎来高潮——来自各个学部的学生代表和老师汇聚在屏幕前，彼此分享和倾听一周来的感触和收获，展示才艺视频，并再次号召社区成员为3所公益机构募集更多善款。

回顾刚刚过去的一周，6年级学生朱子晴说：我们了解了强棒的孩子，通过支持他们练习了社会叙事的技巧…..我觉得未来我们可以继续和强棒保持联系，访问他们，为他们捐款，支持他们的训练!”

参加过多次力求改变的一周的Ryan Sweet老师说：“这是非常重要的一周，它激励我们了解那些需要帮助的人，采取行动，带来积极的改变。”

更大的理想

我们生活在一个内卷的时代。那么，启明星为什么要反复强调和花费精力培养学生的关爱和服务意识，以及社会创新能力这些并不能直接体现为成绩或效果的方面？

因为，激发学生为身边世界带来积极改变的热情，培养他们实现这些理想的素养，合乎启明星的核心价值观，是启明星教育的使命。

又因为，培养学生成为有爱心的社会创新者，也将更好地在情商、创造力和设计思维方面装备好他们，支持他们在瞬息万变的世界中应对自如，实现更高的人生价值。

”这个世界的变化太快了，学生要想取得成功，仅有学术表现出色是不够的。这里有两层含义：一方面，我们帮助学生激发和发展他们全部的潜能，一方面又要引导他们在每天的生活中，为实现世界的美好而应用这些能力。在日常的生活、学习和工作中采取关爱和服务的行动将为我们的心灵和意念提供源源不断的动力。”社会创新项目总监Elizabeth Walker Sobhani说，“因此，启明星设计和实施‘力求改变的一周’这样的项目，为学生提供帮助或服务他人的机会，也鼓励老师和家长参加，陪伴孩子们一起做——这样的策略和哈佛大学教育研究生院Making Caring Common项目的研究结论是一致的。

最后，让我们宣布一个好消息：尽管2022年力求改变的一周在线举行，启明星社区还是为爱心蓝天孤儿康复之家、强棒天使、永续全球环境研究所募集到3,9000元人民币。我们感谢所有人的支持和参与！

In the secondary school visual arts classroom, there are some art pieces woven from metal wire:

They were created by Zhu Chenhao, a student who underwent a heart transplant surgery in 2019. During the “Week for Change,” that year the Daystar Secondary students raised funds to support his rehabilitation and surgery costs. He created these  recent art works as his thank-you gifts for us.  

During the Lunar New Year, Chenhao’s mother sent the works to Daystar with the message, “The Daystar kids helped us so much. We will never forget these lovely and wonderful kids!”

Helping this child is just one of the many activities supported by Daystar, built upon our core values of service and caring. Students learn to care, connect and take positive action through our Social Innovation Program.   

That’s why during the week of May 16, despite the difficulties that COVID-19 has imposed on us, we restarted Daystar’s important tradition of a “Week for Change”!

An Unusual Return

Starting May 16, the “Week for Change” was held online for the Daystar Sanlitun and Beigao elementary and secondary school campuses.

Every day, students participated in a variety of activities to connect, take action and share about the organization and cause their division was supporting.  

From Monday to Friday, various activities took place to help students connect with the organization and social issue, reflect on the lives of those they are supporting, coming up with solutions to take action, and even make a contribution. In this way, students put the Daystar core values of Care and Service into practice. They also honed their social innovation skills—a perfect demonstration of the Daystar’s Social Innovation Program Framework.

Social Innovation Program Framework

Bravo, teenagers!

Secondary school students chose to support Power Baseball Angels—a charity organizations that provides education and baseball training and accommodation for impoverished ethnic minority teenagers in China. Baseball is one of Daystar’s special programs, so the Daystar secondary school students felt very connected to the kids at Angels, and some had played them before!

Teachers organized students to connect with these strong children, listen to their stories, and watch a clip from their documentary “Tough Out”.

The experience of the Power Angels deeply moved the Daystar students. Under the guidance of teachers, they cultivated empathic listening and social storytelling skills and designed poster, blogs, PPTs to and share the story with friends and fund-raise.

"I grew up in the city and haven't experienced their life, but I have the same hobby with them and like sports... I grew up playing football. I have experienced many games, big and small, sometimes winning and sometimes losing. I never lose heart or proud of winning the game. I know their feelings after frustration and the excitement when they win the game best. It's us who never give up Our shared character is also our most precious asset. " Kris Li, a sixth grader, wrote in the PPT.

Yao Songqiao served as the consultant for the Social Innovation Program. She was delighted to observe these natural links: "children have found some common ground between themselves and the Power Angels, such as emotional links, such as loving sports, participating in competitions and perseverance!"

On Thursday, students from grades 6 to 9 showcased their Projects for Change they had been working on this semester through an on-line exhibition. Teachers, students and parents came to the live studio to visit the projects they were interested in and listen to the children explain their research findings and action taken. 

These projects either focused on sustainable economy and nature conservation, well being and social inclusion. It was great to see the research they had done and the creative websites, videos, and action they had taken to support specific social and environmental issues.

Great Passion of the Little Ones

Elementary school students are extremely passionate and caring and making a difference and were fully devoted to the Week for Change.  

Beigao Elementary School students chose to support Blue Sky Healing Home. The teachers led students to imagine what life is like for the orphaned and disabled children at Blue Sky Healing. Afterwards, the students wrote their opinions and thoughts in a form and uploaded it to Seesaw.

 Haiyue Li, Grade 3 Student

When it comes to taking action, students made their own contributions both at home and at Daystar. For example, some students donated their best artworks for auction, with all the raised funds being used to buy milk powder for kids at Blue Sky Healing Home. Others, did service in their community and chores at home. Some focused on fundraising and sharing the message of Blue Sky in their communities.

Sanlitun Elementary School students supported the Global Environmental Insitute (GEI) and had a talk from their Program Manager, BingYu to understand the opportunity we have to take care of the beautiful nature and environment in China. The children broadened their horizons, learned about the organization, and explored plans to eliminate food waste related to sustainable development and hot food issues. They made a thank-you card for the Institute, thanked them for their contribution to protecting the earth, and wrote a commitment card to make a promise for their "green" life.

All of these activities demonstrate the “Innovating” and “Connecting” aspects of our Social Innovation Program. The activities also helped students practice their social skills, inspired their awareness and passion for making a difference in the communities they live in, and built up their confidence.

Celebration!

From the 16th to the 20th, this extraordinary online "Week of Change" came to an end and culminated in a live online celebration – the children from Daystar gathered in front of their screens to listen to each other share their feelings and what they had learned from the past week. They also renewed the call for community members to raise more money for the three charities.

Looking back on the past week, sixth grader Merrick said: we learned about great children and supported them to practice social stoytelling and I think in the future, we can continue to keep in touch with these students, visit them, raise money for them and support their training! "

Teacher Ryan sweet, who has participated in the Week for Change many times, said: "this is a very important week. It inspires us to understand those who need help, take action and bring positive change."

Big Visions

This is a challenging time. Some may wonder why we at Daystar spend so much time cultivating care and service in our students, even though these qualities are not directly linked to their academic performance?

We do it to inspire their passion to make a difference in the world around them. Giving them these excellent qualities and the Daystar core values, is exactly our mission.

We also do it to cultivate students into social innovators with kind hearts, to equip them with emotional intelligence, ingenuity, design thinking skills, to make them resourceful in a changing world, and to help them realize their value in life.

“The world is rapidly changing and the skills and capacities that students need to flourish are not just academics. It is two-fold: continually developing students to their fullest potential, while also applying these skills to the betterment of the world every day. By caring and taking action to be of service in daily life, study or work, it fuels the further development of our hearts and minds. This is why it is so important to have programs like the Week for Change that inspire us to help others and for teachers and parents to be involved as role models too!  It’s also in line with the Making Caring Common project of Harvard Graduate School of Education.” Said Elizabeth Walker Sobhani, Director of Social Innovation Program.

We are thrilled that despite being held online, the Daystar community raised 39,000RMB during the Week for Change to support Blue Sky Healing Home, the Global Environmental Institute and Power Baseball Angels. We truly appreciate everyone’s generosity and participation in our Week for Change 2022!

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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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