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Texas Appleseed (school-to-prison pipeline) #14

Closed MCraven2800 closed 5 years ago

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

The repo for this project lives here

One sentence description:

As part of our efforts to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline (the policies and practices that push kids out of school through suspensions, expulsions, alternative school placements, and police contact) we want to create a website that provides practical resources, interactive maps, and data collection tools to students, parents, grassroots organizations, advocates, and school districts who want to make positive changes in their schools and communities.

Please see description below for more details . . .

Link (more details/brain dump/alpha)

This is a link to what we do: https://www.texasappleseed.org/school-prison-pipeline

Project Needs (dev/design/resources)

We need everything: development, design vision, actual design, resources, etc.

Status (in progress, pie-in-the-sky)

We have collected and developed the resources that will be on the site, are in the process of collecting student arrest, ticketing, and school discipline data, and have started putting feelers out for people who can help.

Microsite Purpose:

  1. To provide an online space where students, parents, community organizations, and school districts can easily access practical information and resources related to school discipline and the school-to- prison pipeline. There would be a link to the site on the Texas Appleseed website’s School-to-Prison Pipeline Project page. Ex. The Advancement Project’s “Ending the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track” microsite that is linked directly to The AP’s main page. http://safequalityschools.org/
  2. To track incidents and data related to school discipline (including exclusionary discipline and arrest data and media stories related to uses of excessive force by school police, arrests, pepper spray, tasers, etc.) so that (1) site visitors are aware of what is going on in their districts and (2) Texas Appleseed can continuously compile and publish incident reports and data. Ex. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hate Incidents Tracker. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-incidents
  3. To provide a space where individuals can rate their school districts and share their stories related to school discipline, with the purposes of (1) providing quantitative and qualitative data to Texas Appleseed and (2) allowing individuals and groups to see when there are district-wide problems so that they can organize community organizations to address them. Ex. The Advancement Project’s Give Your School a Report Card Project. http://www.advancementproject.org/page/s/report-card?source=ema_adv_2015-05-12_ap_ actives

A basic site would have:

  1. Four different links—for students, parents, community organizations, and school districts—to downloadable documents, including “Know Your Rights” resources, infographics, explanations of changes in the law, toolkits, videos, etc.
  2. A form for families to fill out to share their stories with us (linked directly to an excel spreadsheet for easy tracking).
  3. The same general style as the Texas Appleseed site.

A dream site would also have:

  1. An interactive map that would allow users to search for data sets (e.g., number of suspensions, disaggregated by race, special education status, etc.) in different regions/districts in Texas. Ex. http://www.diversitydatakids.org/data/map
  2. The option for Texas Appleseed staff to easily input data from multiple sources---spreadsheets, media reports, student stories, etc.
  3. A space for families to rate their schools, tell stories, and have the ratings/stories automatically pop up on a map that would indicate when there are “hotspots” of high numbers of stories or particularly bad ratings.
  4. A space for community organizations to share success stories and best practices, with the purpose of encouraging other parent groups to grow across the state.
luqmaan commented 9 years ago

Can you narrow the scope of this project?

There are too many things.

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

I'd be happy to, but please give me a little more guidance. There are too many of what things? Too many needs (development, resources, etc)? Or too much in my description of what we want to create?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Luqmaan Dawoodjee <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Can you narrow the scope of this project?

There are too many things.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/14#issuecomment-121259030 .

Morgan Craven Director, School-to-Prison Pipeline Project Texas Appleseed 512.473.2800 ext.110 www.texasappleseed.net

luqmaan commented 9 years ago

Awesome!

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant to say that you want to make too many things. Based on the current description it looks like there are three projects.

we want to create a website that provides practical resources, interactive maps, and data collection tools

Can you describe what you want to do with each of these in more detail?

  1. website that provides practical resources

    What sort of resources would the website provide that aren't already on https://www.texasappleseed.org/school-prison-pipeline?

  2. interactive maps

    Maps of what?

  3. data collection tools

    What data would you like to collect?

I'd like to narrow this issue down to a single project. This makes it easier for people interested in contributing to know where to start.

mateoclarke commented 9 years ago

Just to add on here to what @luqmaan is getting at (I think)...

There's no reason the end product couldn't be accessed from a single webapp/site. But in order to tackle the bigger problem in pieces and to understand the scope of each and how it all fits together, it's helpful to break out the features of the site more thoroughly. This will at least give folks a good starting point and prioritized list of what to work on.

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

I think I understand, thanks! In order to do this, I am going to violate the one sentence limit . . .

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Mateo Clarke notifications@github.com wrote:

Just to add on here to what @luqmaan https://github.com/luqmaan is getting at (I think)...

There's no reason the end product couldn't be contained in a single webapp/site. But in order to tackle the bigger problem in pieces and to understand the scope of each and how it all fits together, it's helpful to break out the features of the site more thoroughly. This will at least give folks a good starting point and prioritized list of what to work on.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/14#issuecomment-121280848 .

Morgan Craven Director, School-to-Prison Pipeline Project Texas Appleseed 512.473.2800 ext.110 www.texasappleseed.net

luqmaan commented 9 years ago

:smiling_imp:

mateoclarke commented 9 years ago

Yeah, one sentence description is definitely subject removal... Good to be concise, but this project obviously needs more than a sentence.

mateoclarke commented 9 years ago

"Dismantle the Pipeline"

If that's not already the tagline, it should be. :hammer:

tgregoneil commented 9 years ago

Possible new item in Microsite Purpose:

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

Yes, I think that is great---thanks Greg!

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:15 AM, tgregoneil notifications@github.com wrote:

Possible new item in Microsite Purpose:

  1. To facilitate advocacy for after-school programs such as music, recreational sports, etc., that would provide constructive activities for students.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/14#issuecomment-121542160 .

Morgan Craven Director, School-to-Prison Pipeline Project Texas Appleseed 512.473.2800 ext.110 www.texasappleseed.net

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

I actually really really like that. I've always liked that phrase when we use it in our materials, and I love the idea of pulling it out and highlighting it as a tagline.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Mateo Clarke notifications@github.com wrote:

"Dismantle the Pipeline"

If that's not already the tagline, it should be. [image: :hammer:]

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/14#issuecomment-121498747 .

Morgan Craven Director, School-to-Prison Pipeline Project Texas Appleseed 512.473.2800 ext.110 www.texasappleseed.net

PatiSilva commented 9 years ago

Here's an example of site: http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ I like that the facts are listed on the side and the interesting and attention grabbing things they did with the map and the graph.

luqmaan commented 9 years ago

@MCraven2800 You should identify one project that you think is ready for people to start working on.

Some of the projects you have now:

  1. A basic site with four sections: students, parents, community organizations, and school districts. Each section has links to other resources. The site will follow the same style as Texas Appleseed.
  2. A form for families to fill out to share their stories with us.
  3. An interactive map that would allow users to search for data sets (e.g., number of suspensions, disaggregated by race, special education status, etc.) in different regions/districts in Texas. Ex. http://www.diversitydatakids.org/data/map
    • To start this project you're going to need a spreadsheet of all the potential datasets you'd like to use. If there aren't enough good datasets available, this idea isn't feasible.
  4. A space for families to rate their schools, tell stories, and have the ratings/stories automatically pop up on a map

So which one project do you want people to work on?

Also nice map @PatiSilva.

MCraven2800 commented 9 years ago

If I HAVE to choose one :) I choose #1: A basic site with resources.

I will add that part of the beauty of the idea is that it is, essentially, two-way data sharing---we will provide resources (#1) but we will also collect stories and data from the people who access the site (#s 2 & 3) and present the information back to them in a way that is easy to understand (# 4). All the parts listed above are closely linked. I got the sense from the group that met last week that this two-way sharing was one of the most appealing and challenging parts of the project. Sorry Luqmaan, I couldn't resist elaborating, but I wanted to make the project a little bit more clear.

luqmaan commented 9 years ago

:+1: Thanks for choosing one and elaborating @MCraven2800.

The other projects are great ideas as well. But now we know which one to start with.

johntyree commented 9 years ago

Had a meeting this evening about what's available now and where we could take this. We should probably break out into a repo soon.

Resource Provision / Sharing Site

Goals

Design

First steps are to mock a site with look-and-feel like http://safequalityschools.org

Site content

Currently Available Data:

Comes in two flavors

Motivate advocacy positions

Extract compelling stories

Gathering New Data

PatiSilva commented 8 years ago

Need assistance modifying the text on the attached image for the logo. The title: School Discipline should be replaced by Texas School Discipline Lab. Styling stays the same. tx-appleseed-logo https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/labels/help%20wanted

twentysixmoons commented 8 years ago

@PatiSilva do you have the ai file for this or know the font?

johntyree commented 8 years ago

We actually took care of this tonight with the help of @amaliebarras!

twentysixmoons commented 8 years ago

sweet~ I just saw this.

amaliebarras commented 8 years ago

@victoriaodell but fyi it’s called museo slab 300! sharing bc it’s cute & maybe you like it also

On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:10 PM, VictoriaODell notifications@github.com wrote:

sweet~ I just saw this.

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PatiSilva commented 8 years ago

I don’t know the font since it is an image.

On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:06 PM, VictoriaODell notifications@github.com wrote:

@PatiSilva https://github.com/PatiSilva do you have the ai file for this or know the font?

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PatiSilva commented 8 years ago

Thank you so much. I just got home about 15 minutes ago. Thank you @amaliebarras https://github.com/amaliebarras!

On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:08 PM, John Tyree notifications@github.com wrote:

We actually took care of this tonight with the help of @amaliebarras https://github.com/amaliebarras!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/open-austin/project-ideas/issues/14#issuecomment-191048123.

mateoclarke commented 8 years ago

https://github.com/txappleseed/txappleseedmap

werdnanoslen commented 7 years ago

who is/are the lead(s) for this project?

305kev commented 7 years ago

Hey y'all, could someone comment on what still needs to be done, or what new avenues we could take with this tomorrow at the Civic Hack? Are there design issues? Are there any visualization problems? Is there a question that could be answered using the data & ML techniques?

mscarey commented 5 years ago

This project still has ongoing maintenance needs, but I doubt we should try to onboard new people, and I don't think this thread is helpful anymore.