The Healthy Lifestyle Programme uses a range of school-based activities including lessons, assemblies, parents' evenings, interactive drama workshops and goal setting to engage schools, children and their families.
Sharon is an education space planner with particular expertise in linking pedagogy and space, developing the education design brief, engaging school communities in the design process, and evaluating school buildings.
The enthusiasm of young scientists can be invaluable in engaging school students with science and technology.
"So," he said, "it would be an own goal to plough ahead without engaging school leaders more widely in its final development".
Finally, we adapted the intervention delivery to local contexts by engaging school leaders and personalised the content by allowing participants to have input into the delivery.
Problems identified specific to the secondary sector included accessing parents, engaging schools and the tight curriculum.
"Success in attaining gender parity, equality and specifically maintaining the girl in school lies in an effective and meaningful process for engaging schools and communities where negative beliefs, attitudes and practices that have maximum impact on their participation are entrenched," UNICEF Representative in Rwanda said on this occasion.
Creating collaborations between universities, museums and local schools to engage high-school students in Earth science, and help them consider science as a possible vocation, thus seems a logical method of helping to alleviate many of the outlined issues.
Studio STEM was an afterschool and summer program provided at K-7 schools that was intended to engage middle school youth in STEM concepts and practices (Evans, Schnittka, Jones, & Brandt, 2016; Schnittka et al., 2015).
