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Overview and key findings: Texting for Rapid Youth Support

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The joy of a cell phone for communicating whenever

UCHE: I DON'T CURRENTLY SEE THE POINT OF CALLING THIS MOBILE MESSAGING SUPPORT TEAM, GIVEN OUR FOCUS ON TEXTING. WE ALSO DIDN'T DO 'TEAMS' YET IN PHASE 1, REALLY. ok w/ RENAME?

Documenters: please use these categories to organize your documentation. Please see the drafted Parent connector network page for explanation of each category. See Vision for OneVille documentation for more discussion of what we hope the final wiki will look like and accomplish!

Summary

(Note to documenters: In this summary, quickly tell the reader a, b, and c:

a. Communication we set forth to improve. (What aspect of communication did we set forth to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?)

b. Main communication improvement(s). (What is the main communication improvement we made? What new support for young people may have resulted?)

c. Main communication realization. (What's your main realization about needed improvements to the communication infrastructure of public education? Who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media, in order to support youth in a diverse community? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome?)


Communication we set forth to improve

Say more. What aspect of communication did we want to improve, so that more people in Somerville could collaborate in young people's success?


Process

How we realized and redirected things, over time.

Moe and Ted, texting teacher pioneers, with Uche and Mica. . .and donuts

Basic History

The groundwork needed to support the current work.


Communication ahas, implementation ahas, and turning points!

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Research day at Harvard Graduate School of Education, April 2011
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Analyzing texting again in June 2011

Over the course of the project, we had the following communication and implementation ahas, and project turning points. To read the full accounting, see main article: Texting/ahas

Findings/Endpoints

Please describe final outcomes and share examples of final products, with discussion!

Concrete communication improvements

What is the main communication improvement we made? What new support for young people may have resulted?


Main communication realizations and implementation realizations

What is your main realization about needed improvements to the communication infrastructure of public education? (Who needs to communicate what information to whom, through which media, in order to support youth in a diverse community? Which barriers are in the way of such communication, and how might these barriers be overcome?)

What is your main realization about implementing these innovations in education?


Technological how-tos

Describe "how to" use every tool you used, so that others could do the same. Describe "how to" make every tool you made!



Things we’d expand/do differently

If you wanted to replicate any of this, what would you need to think about? Contact us to learn/talk more!



ADD IN

We've begun our mobile messaging pilot by testing texting among young people and their supporters.

Texting stuff here!

for visualizations, include EXAMPLES OF TEXTS and iNTERVIEWS W/ KIDS/TEACHERS

take from blog posts and from the data on the old oneville wiki