SMART School Mapping And Reviewing Tool

1. SMARTSchool Mapping And Reviewing Tool Mapping Anonymous Perceptions (MAP) Janine Phillips: Health Promoting Schools Coordinator Centre for Health Promotion, June 2007

2. Adelaide, South Australia

3. The Centre for Health Promotion • 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.

4. The 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.

5. 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.

6. Why SMART? • Teacher requests • Raise awareness of HPS • Support for non-metropolitan sites

7. Development 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.

8. How it works School Mapping And Reviewing Tool Maps perceptions of school life Instant collation of results

9. What does SMART do? 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 • identifyingareas of strength and priorities for development • supporting school planning • providing a snap-shot of changing focus areas over time.

10. What does SMART do? SMART provides: • 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.

11. What 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).

12. Next steps Partnerships for Wellbeing Evaluation with focus on SMART as a planning tool

13. Next 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)

14. SMART administration

25. Let's do a survey

32. let's view a 'MAP'

35. Let's view our school's responses

42. Where to from here? • Ideas? • Using SMART? • Collaborations? • sahpsnet

43. Contact us The SMART team is: • Janine Phillips: janine.phillips@cywhs.sa.gov.au • Evie Ledger: evie.ledger@cywhs.sa.gov.au • Tracy Buchanan: tracy.buchanan@cywhs.sa.gov.au • Di Skott: diana.skott@cywhs.sa.gov.au

44. Acknowledgements • Alberta Collation of Healthy School Communities • Ever Active Schools • Lori Baugh Littlejohns • Doug Gleddie • Donna Thompson