Visual Advocacy--> Brainstorming Solutions

Students

How do you address the issue without directly talking about it?

Students are NOT ready to listen, how do you ge them ready?

What is already being done? Can/ how do we fill the gap?


**For some students, the transition between 8th/9th grade is rough, and they consider dropping out around this time.


School supplies with info that relates to what they are studying in school

-notebooks
-notepads
-binders
-folders


Share stories from people who have dropped out (not been successful) and people who have stayed in school (been successful) **Emphasizes the importance of staying in school.

-video
-speaker program
-workbooks
-advisory groups-meet after lectures and discuss?

-info packets received at the beginning of school with information about supportive people at the school if the student is having academic/emotional difficulties.


Program to help students who are transitioning from middle school to high school

-differences
-How they can be better prepared
-What to do if they feel they are having trouble either academically or emotionally (workbooks/advisory groups may tie in).

Visual Advocacy--> Problem Statement

Problem

Nearly half of all high school students in Kansas City do not graduate. In 2008, the KC School District reported a 40% dropout rate.

According to the national average, Kansas City is ranked 26th among the nation's top 50 schools with a dropout crisis based on data from the last 10 yrs.


Audience Definition/ Characteristics

Most students drop pout when they have only a year or two left of school. There is no single reason why students drop out, but rather a cluster of reasons:

-lack of emotional connection to school/environment
-school i boring (uninspiring teachers)-> unmotivated
-academic/personal challenges (become a parent/need to help family)

For most students dropping out is not a sudden act, but a gradual process of disengagement

-attendance patterns are a warning sign
-not enough rules/ too much freedom


What social behavior do you want to change?

-change the way students look at school
-change the way they are being taught
-change the way parents Are involved in their child's education

Internship--> The ABQ Museum--> Miniatures

The advertisement I designed for a show called Miniatures and More at the Albuquerque Museum this fall. The ad was published in the September issue of Southwest Art magazine.

Multi Media Ex.--> Web 2.0 Community Model--> Graphic

Corie, Jessica, Cassie

Multi Media Ex.--> Web 2.0 Community Model

1. Membership
For the Web Community this would involve authorship on the site. Members are able to add to the content in addition to being a reader and follower. Being apart of the online community would be less personal than a physical community, but it allows for a wide range of members because the community becomes globally accessible.

2. Influence
A community and individual’s influence within the community in a Web 2.0 environment would involve the quantity and effectiveness of the member’s participation in authorship, commentary and sharing. The community platform would allow access for all members to be published and heard equally by everyone and each other encouraging an equal exchange of power.

3. Integration and Fulfillment of Needs
Involvement in a Web 2.0 community allows participants with common interests to find what they desire and contribute information that enables others to obtain what they need.

4. Shared Emotional Connection
Emotional connection through Web 2.0 is enhanced by the quality of the interaction by the individual user. The time and energy invested into the community is rewarded by recognition and deeper involvement in the community.