SMART School Mapping And Reviewing Tool

SMARTSMARTSchool Mapping And Reviewing ToolSchool Mapping And Reviewing Tool

Mapping Anonymous Perceptions (MAP)Mapping Anonymous Perceptions (MAP)

Janine Phillips: Health Promoting Schools Coordinator

Centre for Health Promotion, June 2007

Adelaide, South AustraliaAdelaide, South Australia

• The CHP has a total budget of 1.4m, 20 staff, within

one of South Australia’s larger health regions.

• Key principles are equity, capacity building and

working in partnership.

• Range of strategies from:

- workforce development

- joint policy development.

• The CHP has worked with schools for over 20 years.

The Centre for Health PromotionThe Centre for Health Promotion

The contextThe context

• State Government Strategic Plan focuses on

wellbeing, early years, engagement in education

and Indigenous health and wellbeing.

• These themes are expanded in the Strategic

Plans of the Health and Education sectors.

• CHP has no government mandate to enforce any

policies.

What is SMART?What is SMART?

• SMART is an online tool, based upon the health promoting schools model.

• It collects and collates the perceptions of school members about the health and wellbeing processes and activities in their school.

• SMART is a data collection tool to support an ongoing process of change in the school.

• The process is ‘owned’ and administered by the school.

Why SMART?Why SMART?

• Teacher requests

• Raise awareness of HPS

• Support for non-metropolitan sites

Development processDevelopment process

• 2001: Identified need. Reference group formed.

• 2002: Literature review commissioned.

• 2003: Intensive work with SA schools to develop

framework, questions and technology.

• 2004: Paper version trialled with 30 schools

Strong preference for online version

Request for a student version.

• 2005: Online version and support package trialled.

How it worksHow it works

Instant collation of results

Maps perceptions of school life

School Mapping And Reviewing Tool

SMART supports change by:

• stimulating discussion and engaging people in the process in a non-threatening manner

• raising awareness of the health promoting school approach

• identifying areas of strength and priorities for development

• supporting school planning

• providing a snap-shot of changing focus areas over time.

What does SMART do?What does SMART do?

• an efficient way of collecting data

• a way of involving a range of school community

members in the process of change

• an instant collation of results and presentation of

visual ‘MAP’ based on their collated ratings

• very high levels of anonymity

- individuals cannot be identified

- data cannot be compared between schools.

SMART provides:

What does SMART do?What does SMART do?

What we’ve learntWhat we’ve learnt

• Tool must be user friendly.

• SMART can be used by any school community,

regardless of their stage of readiness to change.

• Student and parent versions wanted.

• It is seen as positive that it comes from ‘health’

and is not ‘required’ by Department of Education

and Children’s Services (DECS).

Next stepsNext steps

Evaluation with focus on SMART as a planning tool

Partnerships for Wellbeing

Next stepsNext steps

Development of student version:

• literature review completed

• series of preliminary student consultations

• one school to lead an extensive consultation with their peers (accredited to year’s work)

SMART administration

Let's do a survey

let's view a 'MAP'

Let's view our school's responses

Where to from here?Where to from here?

• Ideas?

• Using SMART?

• Collaborations?

• sahpsnet

Contact usContact us

• Janine Phillips: [email protected]

• Evie Ledger: [email protected]

• Tracy Buchanan: [email protected]

• Di Skott: [email protected]

The SMART team is:

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

• Alberta Collation of Healthy School

Communities

• Ever Active Schools

• Lori Baugh Littlejohns

• Doug Gleddie

• Donna Thompson