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ChangeWriters
legal form registered association
founding March 2014
purpose Social participation and educational opportunities
Chair Jörg Knüfken, Felix Backherms, Christin Bartmann
Managing directors Jörg Knüfken
Website www.changewriters.de

ChangeWriters is an association that aims to promote the learning success of students who are considered to be “not schoolable” by improving the teacher-student ratio .

Goals and Activities

The association offers teachers and other interested parties the opportunity to participate in practical seminars, in which new ways of successfully building relationships with students are taught. According to the association and students, the method of writing a diary improves the school performance of the young people, and it also has positive effects on problems such as bullying and violence. There are around 20 school partnerships across Germany.

history

The role model is the commitment of the teacher Erin Gruwell , who met 150 “non-educable high-risk students” in Long Beach in 1994 and helped them all to graduate by giving them a chance to graduate. a. gave the opportunity to write diaries . The story was filmed in the drama Freedom Writers .

In 2010 the school social worker Jörg Knüfken introduced the method at his school in Germany and, after successful pilot projects, founded the ChangeWriters association in 2014 to pass the methods on to educators nationwide.

financing

The association is mainly financed by donations, including the Wübben Foundation, the Dr. Otto Beisheim Foundation and Aqtivator gGmbH, as well as from municipal funds.

Awards

  • 2019: Phineo “Works” donation seal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerit Stratmann: The ChangeWriters project - How writing a diary helps school refusal. In: Deutschlandfunk . February 15, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Stefan Werding: A classroom full of respect. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . February 6, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Lena Greiner: ChangeWriters: Jörg Knüfken helps difficult students with diaries. In: Der Spiegel . December 12, 2017, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Henriette Jedicke: "Changewriters" project helps prevent bullying and violence in schools. In: Focus Online . May 11, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Change Writers Association - school partnerships. In: www.changewriters.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Natalie Putsche: Changewriting project - "Then you can be you again". In: Deutschlandfunk . December 17, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Natalie Putsche: How diaries should save students. In: SWR2 . November 26, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Natalie Putsche: Biography work in school - How diary writing helps difficult students. In: Deutschlandfunk . April 8, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  9. ^ Daniela Gassmann: Integration - Jörg Knüfkens and the Change Writers. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 11, 2018, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ ChangeWriters eV - Transparency. In: www.changewriters.de. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Rico Stehfest: Destructive, aggressive, negative - The ChangeWriters eV wants to bring conspicuous young people into the middle of society . In: Fundraiser magazine . No. 6/2017 , November 13, 2017, ISSN  1867-0563 , p. 38 f . ( fundraiser-magazin.de [PDF; accessed on February 9, 2020]).
  12. ↑ Phineo (Ed.): Subject report Strong together . December 2019, p. 34 ( phineo.org [PDF]).