Kleine Füchse Raule Foundation
| Kleine Füchse Raule Foundation | |
|---|---|
| Purpose: | Promotion of education and upbringing, especially of gifted and gifted children and young people |
| Chair: | Horst Raule |
| Consist: | 2003 |
| Founder: | Horst Raule |
| Foundation capital: | 12 million euros |
| Seat: | Wiesbaden |
| Website: | stiftung-kleine-fuechse.de |
The Kleine Füchse Raule Foundation is a non-profit foundation under civil law based in Wiesbaden .
Goals and Activities
The aim of the foundation is to discover gifted and highly gifted children of preschool age and to promote them individually. With the help of professional, talented support in existing daycare groups, the children concerned are to be strengthened in their development and all children in the supported support institutions benefit from the improved framework conditions.
By the end of 2019, over 850 gifted and highly gifted children had been discovered by the gifted psychological counseling center of the foundation in Wiesbaden. This carries out intelligence diagnostics in children from the age of three and provides comprehensive advice to families. In addition, more than 600 educational specialists have so far taken part in the foundation's advanced training courses.
Emergence
The foundation was established on December 9, 2003 by Horst Raule . The decisive factor for this were the results of German schoolchildren in the first Pisa study from 2000. Horst and Ursula Raule wanted to counter these with an educational initiative that implements talent-appropriate support even in preschool age. In 2006, the foundation's gifted psychological counseling center in Wiesbaden started its work to train educators in the talented advancement of children, and for the first time started a further training course for educators with 18 participants.
At the beginning of 2007, the “Little Foxes” model established itself as a support concept with three areas of advanced training, advice and a partner daycare network. The foundation's advanced training was accredited in 2007 by the Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration and in 2008 by the Ministry for Family, Women, Youth, Integration and Consumer Protection of Rhineland-Palatinate . In 2009 a scientific advisory board was appointed to ensure the implementation of current scientific knowledge.
On May 25, 2012 the married couple Horst and Ursula Raule received the Georg August Zinn Medal of the State of Hesse for their commitment in the field of education , awarded in the Wiesbaden State Chancellery by Prime Minister Volker Bouffier . By 2013, the network of partner daycare centers expanded significantly with the support of cooperation partners such as Dr. Wolfgang and Anita Bürkle Foundation and the State Foundation Together in Hesse . At that time, the “Little Foxes” model was implemented in Wiesbaden , Mainz , Ingelheim , Limburg , Bingen , the Kirn and Idar-Oberstein region , Königstein , Hünstetten and Bad Kreuznach . With 51 partner day-care centers, over 400 discovered gifted and highly gifted children and more than 250 training participants, the foundation was seen as a source of inspiration for early childhood education in the Rhine-Main region .
In 2019, the foundation expanded the area of “advanced training”. In addition to the extra-occupational advanced training series for the “Talented Pedagogue Specialist Foundation Little Foxes”, day seminars were also offered as an offer for educational specialists. Horst Raule transferred the property at Gustav-Freytag-Straße 29 in Wiesbaden, where the gifted psychological counseling center had been working since 2017, to the foundation. New training rooms are to be created here, which will enable further expansion of the training offer for participants from all over Germany. With the transfer of this and other properties in Leipzig , the foundation's capital doubled to more than 12 million euros.
Working method
The foundation's gifted psychological advice center works closely with a network of partner daycare centers. In addition, she is the contact point for families and advises on all questions relating to the topic of gifted children. In addition, one-day seminars and training courses for educational specialists are organized in cooperation with a scientific advisory board. Via the pedagogical forum supervised by the psychological staff, the trained educators also have the opportunity to deepen acquired skills and keep them up to date. In addition, the foundation carries out public relations work in order to create broader awareness within society for the topic of gifted children. The operational management and legal representation of the Kleine Füchse Foundation is the responsibility of a five-member board. This is advised by the foundation board, which works to ensure that the foundation's goals are pursued independently and in accordance with the statutes.
network
Daycare centers can participate in the foundation's network if they want to expand their conception to include talent-appropriate promotion. This is also part of the educational mandate of the education and training plans of the federal states. Currently, over 100 facilities in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are among the partner daycare centers of the Kleine Füchse Foundation. The costs incurred for corresponding training and consulting services are usually borne by sponsors from business, politics and foundations, but also private donors and the members of the Board of Trustees.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Füchse Raule Foundation | Initiative Frankfurter Stiftungen eV Accessed December 30, 2019 (German).
- ^ Foundation. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Chronicle. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Prime Minister Volker Bouffier awards the Georg August Zinn Medal. In: www.volker-bouffier.de. May 25, 2012, accessed March 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Ability Psychology Advice Center of the Raule Foundation | KARG specialist portal gifted. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ^ Advice center of the Small Foxes Foundation | Talent guide. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Advice center. Accessed December 30, 2019 .