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

Adelaide, South Australia

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. The Centre for Health Promotion

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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. SMART provides: What does SMART do?

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).

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

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)

SMART administration

Let's do a survey

let's view a 'MAP'

Let's view our school's responses

Where to from here? Ideas? Using SMART? Collaborations? sahpsnet

Contact us Janine Phillips: Evie Ledger: Tracy Buchanan: Di Skott: The SMART team is:

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