Help Evaluate Chrysalis After-School
Posted on Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
As it always does, the school year has somehow disappeared, with May catching me unprepared! It’s time to collect information about your work with the Chrysalis Foundation’s after-school girls’ groups so that we can report [...]
continue readingMake HerStory
Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Here’s the story that KCCI ran on the Chrysalis HerStory event May 27. Shawn Johnson, Olympic gymnast from West Des Moines, was the featured speaker.
Each year the Chrysalis Foundation sponsors a spring event for the [...]
Learn through Service
Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Service learning is more than picking up litter and cutting down trees. Kids and adults can have fun and learn a lot from doing such activities together. But to have a bigger impact, service learning [...]
continue readingEngineer Your World
Posted on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
When I was growing up and even up until I went on college visits with my nephew Wil, I had no idea how much engineering is a part of all aspects of life–travel, energy, safe [...]
continue readingGive Feedback
Posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2009
The Chrysalis Foundation works very hard to collect accurate information about its work with girls in after-school groups. On this post you’ll find the Evaluation Tools for the Chrysalis After-School Programs for 2009-2010. I will [...]
continue readingMap Your Mind
Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009
I’ve filled about one sketchbook each year with notes since I learned to mind map in the early 1990s. Several years before that I had simply stopped taking notes. In those pre-mind map days, I [...]
continue readingReview the Chrysalis Report
Posted on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
As I finish the 2009 Chrysalis After-School Evaluation Report, I am impressed by the hard work and stellar outcomes of this innovative program. The third year of my evaluation work for Chrysalis documents positive outcomes [...]
continue readingStart Your After-School Group
Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
It’s so exciting to be able to get a jump start on starting Chrysalis After-School groups for the next two years, knowing that the funding is there for your established groups. The program is going [...]
continue readingDivide Your Group
Posted on Sunday, August 9th, 2009
As I facilitate experiential education or group discussions, I like to divide any group that is larger than seven people into smaller groups. This makes it easier for quieter people to be heard. If I’m [...]
continue readingMingle Mingle!
Posted on Sunday, August 9th, 2009
This is a really fun way to mix a group up and then divide up cliques without anyone being the wiser. Here’s a video that is worth 10,000 words of explanation for a game I’ve [...]
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