"Window of the South" magazine once described: "The new educational experiment is expected to become a' new hope project' after the hope project-the hope project is a project of adding desks, mainly material things; The new hope project is a project to shape a person after having a desk, focusing on the spirit. " Broadly speaking, the whole new education experiment is a new hope project for all basic education in China. In a narrow sense, the New Hope Project also refers to the educational assistance to rural areas and western regions since the beginning of the new educational experiment. Since 2003, the new education experiment has been carried out in the western region every year, spreading advanced educational ideas to Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Hunan, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and cities.
"Lingshan-New Education Public Welfare Project" was jointly developed by Lingshan Charity Foundation and New Education Experimental Research Group. The Foundation was responsible for the financial support, and the New Education Experimental Research Group was responsible for the public welfare project of academic services. It mainly undertakes projects such as teacher training and reading promotion in relatively poor new education experimental schools and poor schools in the western region. The main projects that have been implemented and are being started are:
Lingshan-Guizhou New Education Promotion Plan is jointly carried out by Lingshan Charity Foundation and New Education Research Center. It provides long-term teacher training and school support to some areas of Guizhou, and promotes new educational concepts to the western region, so that teachers and students in the western region can get in touch with the most advanced educational research results for the first time.
Lingshan-Seed Plan for New Education This plan aims to continuously discover and cultivate cutting-edge talents for new education experiments and even China education through continuous academic support and cultivation of outstanding individual teachers with idealistic feelings scattered among the people.
Lingshan-New Education Children's Reading Promotion Plan This plan aims to spread the latest research results of the new education experimental group on children's reading (including reading aloud and children's step-by-step reading) to the new education experimental school and the poverty-stricken areas in the west, and provide necessary training, so as to implant the most precious seeds of human culture, including China traditional culture, into childhood.
In 2005, Lingshan new education project was officially launched. In the first phase of the project, new education experimental schools 15 schools were funded, and a principal and a backbone teacher were trained for each school. A set of books for teachers and a set of books for students were given, and computers and Internet connections were installed to provide guidance and follow-up supervision for new education experiments for one school year.
In July, 2006, Mr. Wu Guoping, Chairman of Lingshan Charity Foundation, solemnly announced at the Beijing press conference that he would invest 5 million yuan in Lingshan-New Education Project (including 10000 "Caterpillar and Butterfly"-Step Reading Schoolbag for Newly Educated Children) in the next five years, which marked the official start of comprehensive cooperation between Lingshan Charity Foundation and the New Education Experiment.
From August to September, 2006, the Lingshan-New Education Project Team, headed by Mr. Zhao from Lingshan Charity Foundation, set up a training team consisting of 14 people, and conducted a 20-day public welfare training for Lingshan-New Education in Meitan County and Fenggang County of Guizhou Province. In June, 165438+ 10, a group of 38 people from Guizhou New Education went to Yuncheng, which integrated investigation and training, effectively promoting the further development of the experiment. The new education experiment combined with teaching started the "New Hope" western children's reading program, which plans to spread the latest achievements of children's ladder research to children in poor areas in the west through schoolbags and training.
Give you a pair of tomorrow's wings-Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce's new education children's reading promotion plan In the winter of 2006, Suzhou Wenzhou Enterprise Association (Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce Suzhou Branch) was established. Based on a common wish and sense of responsibility, entrepreneurs donated 300,000 yuan to children in Suzhou, entrusted the New Education Research Center and the Ministry of Public Welfare, and launched an activity called "Give you a pair of wings for tomorrow-Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce's New Education Children's Reading Promotion Plan". The operation mode of the activity is that the Chamber of Commerce and its members will donate schoolbags with the value of 400 yuan specially designed for children of different ages. These schoolbags can be used by grantees for two years. At that time, the project executor will print the name of the donor on the schoolbag and send the information of the recipient to the donor. The project implementation department will look for recipients, train reading instructors who have received children, supervise reading development and collect relevant information. The growth of children in the promotion process and other touching things were compiled into the four seasons story of Caterpillar's Wings. Mail the stories of the four seasons to donors and various media. The first batch of children gave it. Some students of Xinhu Primary School in Suzhou New District happily accepted this gift, and their teachers also received the first training.
In the process of carrying out public welfare activities, the new educational public welfare has gradually formed its own public welfare system and characteristics:
Abide by the strict system: the new educational public welfare hopes to form a more rigorous and standardized system through continuous exploration, so as to standardize and transparent the whole public welfare process, avoid unnecessary waste and make the project run more pragmatic and efficient.
Highlight professionalism: New Education Public Welfare hopes to strengthen the academic quality of public welfare activities and enhance professionalism by continuously introducing cutting-edge research results, so that public welfare activities will not only become a process of donating property, but also become a hematopoietic project, thus making Lingshan-New Education a well-known public welfare brand and truly benefiting education in China.
Shaping commonweal culture: The new educational commonweal hopes to gradually form a unique transparent, fair, open and efficient commonweal culture through continuous dialogue among cultures (foundation culture, new educational culture and regional culture in the recipient areas), so that commonweal activities can become a process of enriching each other's lives and cultures.