What is the Ripple Effect?

This post has nothing to do with Technology Integrating but has everything to do with a passion of mine. The Ripple Effect born out of my desire to create a safe environment for students to grow and experience true community amongst their peers.

The Ripple Effect is an all day experience that has been created for teens at Maine West to engage with one another, learn about themselves, be challenged, and stretched in hopes of inspiring them to make a splash in the areas of their lives at school, at home and communities.

If you think about the times in which you’ve gone to the pool. Or if you’ve launch a rock in a pond…..something cool happens. When you jump into the water…..you usually make a big splash and the result is numerous ripples that spread outward and touch other the other people in the pool. Our desire for this day is for teens to be armed with self-awareness, knowledge, and skills to leave the Ripple Effect and make ripples. How powerful will it be for our teens to walk and make a splash that will ripple on for eternity? How powerful will it be if we as a student body and faculty were go back to Maine West and make a splash and watch as the ripples touch the other students and faculty? So, that’s what this day is all about…..making a splash.

At the end of the day, each participant was to create an action plan pertaining to themselves, the school and/or the community.

See the video below for a snapshot of what the event looks like.