OLPC Santa Barbara Strategic Planning

I. Development: Local Partner School Programs (LPS)

(Currently Kellogg Elementary, Goleta, CA)

i) What is our principle role in working with Kellogg and DJ Perry’s grade 3 class? We gave them the laptops… now what?
ii) What will each of our individual roles be in working with Kellogg and DJ Perry’s class, or any XO class in the future?
iii) What are the steps to setting up a Local Partner school?
iv) What are some quantifiable target goals we can aim for with the classroom(s)?
v) How will we measure success?
o What types of quantifiable material will we have to measure success/ effectiveness of our program and involvement with Kellogg, justifying our purpose of involvement? What can we contribute to OLPC Wiki?

b) Expansion of Local Partner Schools Programs
i) How many Santa Barbara Schools do we want to include by the end of our school year?
(i) How many schools are there?
ii) How many classrooms do we want to include by the end of our school year?
(i) How many classrooms are there?
iii) How many Laptops will this roughly translate to?
iv) How much money will we have to fundraise?

III. Development: International Partner School Programs (IPS)

i) What is our principle role in working with international schools (currently John Osogo Secondary School)? They have the laptops… now what?
ii) If we are providing them the laptops, how are we selecting who/ which schools them? What is the basis for this decision? How do we aid and be a part of implementation?
iii) What are the steps to setting up an international partner schools?
iv) What are the quantifiable target goals we can aim for with the international classrooms?
v) How will we measure “success”
o What types of quantifiable material would be able to measure the success/effectiveness of the program?
vi) How will the establishment of, management of, and interactions with our International school programs and Local school programs differ?

IV. Development: Cross-Cultural Peer 2 Peer Interactions (CCP2P)

i) What is our principle role in facilitating the interactions between partner schools?
ii) What are some potential methods of P2P interactions?
iii) How will we fulfill our role in facilitating these interactions?
iv) What are the steps to setting up these interactions?
v) How will we measure “success”
o What types of quantifiable material would be able to measure the success/effectiveness of these interactions?

V. Development: Software Development

i) Which campus groups, or students, specifically, will be creating this software?
ii) What will their timeline/outline for creating the software be?
iii) What types of programs will they be creating?
iv) What will the software developer’s interaction be with the Local Partner School students?

VI. Strategy: Fundraising

i) What specific groups or individuals will we seek for funds?
ii) How will we establish contacts with these groups?
iii) Will we hold group presentations or individual presentations?
iv) Will they be on-campus, off-campus, in donor homes, ect?
v) Who will make the presentation? What will we include in it?

VII. Program Transparency: Awareness and Progress Report Presentations

i) How often will we be giving presentations to the campus or donors on OLPC SB progress?
ii) What will these presentations contain? Quantifiable material, statistics, data, new programs created, software developed, success stories?
iii) Where will they be held?
iv) Who will be invited?