The Chelsea Foundation, Inc.
P. O. Box 440754 Kennesaw, Georgia 30160 770-485-8144
The Chelsea Foundation envisions all children with bright futures and elevating dreams!
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Somewhere high in the sky, two pelican breaths away from the last snow peaked mountain, there lay a mystical land that many children have seen. You cannot get there by airplane, nor can you scale the tallest mountain, however, you can get there through your dreams. It is a magical place found by children and intended only for children. The only way for an adult to enter is by invitation. Castle Land offers all that a child could ever want or need, including the magical playgrounds of their own design. They are free to laugh, look for sound advice, or a helping hand. It's the safe place; perfect for when they are scared. The two in charge of Castle Land are two storks, the Grand Marshall and Queen Mum. The Chelsea Foundation has been organized around Chelsea, a stork mascot, keeping with the priorities embodied by storks, "family, community consciousness, and nurturing values." The Foundation's mission is to ensure the quality of life and a level of prosperity for the future by putting into place a Quality Effort Award Program. The first phase of this program will have long lasting effects on today's elementary school students, producing clear-cut results for generations to come.
To encourage literacy that goes across curriculum, motivate creative thinking, and reward effort, the Quality Effort Award Program will make the following tools available to teachers for use in helping their students:
- Chelsea's Beacon is a children's newspaper filled with appropriate material for students from first through sixth grade. It offers many beneficial methods, formats and outlets that promote the written word. We use only writings submitted through a national volunteer effort of skilled professional and amateur writers.
- The Student's Beat is a day planner for each child that can be used as a day-to-day journal throughout the school year. The journals will help students set realistic goals and guide them in their efforts to achieve these goals. The journal gives teachers a practical, as well as lively and fun method to help children take more control over their own lives in and outside the classroom.
- The Quality Effort Award recognizes the effort that students put into their schoolwork throughout the year. Teachers will receive ribbons to distribute, and decide which of their students have earned theirs.
Good—better—best! Never rest until good is better, and better is best.
The Quality Effort Award Program is about focus. Understanding and retention of information cannot be mandated, only encouraged--this is especially true where children are the concern! Children who have lived through traumatic experiences, such as national disasters, may find it difficult to focus in the classroom. Students suffering from trauma, depression and a host of other problems can quickly find themselves falling behind their classmates who are the "achievers," and not see their own progress. They often stop trying when the emphasis is on results that seem remote; and worse, they begin to interpret their failures with two words, "I'm dumb!" This attitude often compounds the situation, making a teacher's job more difficult. Teachers have to contend with the children's emotional wounds, wounds that some children carry right into their adult lives. By putting emphasis on the quality of each individual's effort, not the results, knowledge is more easily accepted and, thus, acquired. Efforts bring success, encouragement brings more effort, and then desirable results follow.
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