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Academic 2018-2019 • Issue 34 ACADEMIC 2018-2019 • ISSUE 34 VOICE contents VOICE Owner On behalf of The Koç School Prof. Dr. Murat Günel 12 20 Editor-in-Chief Zeynep Kurmuş Hürbaş Publications Coordinator Pınar Çelikörslü Editors Leyla Demirbağ Atay, Elif Kutlu Art Director Senem Ener Photography Aykut Karadere Contributors Levent Pakdamar, Ezgi Aydoğanoğlu We are thankful to the members of Photography Club and AV Club for their support. Produced by Demirbağ Publishing 2 Professor Murat Günel, PhD: 30 Gold medal at the TÜBITAK Barbaros Bulvarı İBA Blokları 42/6 Growth and change Science Olympiad Balmumcu Beşiktaş / İstanbul Phone: +90 212 347 47 80 4 Feature: The Koç School 32 Vehbi Koç Foundation celebrating www.demirbag.com.tr embarks a new road 50 years! Printed by MD Basım San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. 18 Are you defending these 34 Living in the age of technology Certificate No: 41746 women? and innovation Seyrantepe Mahallesi İbrahim Karaoğlanoğlu Caddesi No: 105/1236 Kağıthane / İstanbul 20 Challenging the norms Phone: +90 212 283 10 15 22 360° support for study Voice Magazine Correspondence Address abroad The Koç School Orhanlı Köyü Çayırlar Mevkii PK. 60 34941 Tuzla / İstanbul 24 In the name of independent 24 Phone: +90 216 585 62 00 journalism Local Periodical Publication 26 Development of children Owned and published by The Koç School. and adolescents under For complimentary distribution. All excerpts and re-production subject to spotlight prior written consent. The Koç School disclaims any liability or 28 From thinking teacher to responsibility for advertisers’ content. thinking student ISSN 1305-1857 2018-2019 32 38 26 38 From The Koç School stage 40 Zümrüdüanka (The Phoenix) 42 Hats off to The Koç School seniors 44 News from us 59 The Koç School parents unite 60 Alumni 22 64 The Koç School Alumni Association 40 18 Editorial | Professor Murat Günel, PhD Growth and change ‘Reading the parameters of the times accurately and basing decision-making processes on data is an essential need for our school to achieve growth and change.’ 2 VOICE EDITORIAL Dear Voice Readers, some of the highlights with adopt practical approaches Greetings to The Koç School you: to problems. As of June, 34 family on the occasion of academic and administrative the new edition of Voice, The Institutional Planning and staff completed the three- our annual magazine! We Evaluation Department was month program. We have plans left behind a busy school formed with the objective of to repeat the DT workshops in year, when we reveled in strengthening and continuously the near future. the pleasure of moving improving the school culture forward on our path together and operation across a range Defining our school’s meaning and achieving multiple of fields and scopes. This and purpose in a manner successes. It was a year department will ensure that to unite everyone around it, filled with competitions, the way organizational plans and making it visible was projects, ceremonies, fairs, and programs, processes, another activity that we gatherings, meetings and values and internal dynamics started this year. We will be training programs blended with are positioned is analyzed, completing the first phase of academic studies. Collective developed and structured the process which began in achievements emerged if needed with respect to March with a survey among when the dedication of our individual divisions, the parents and students, through students came together with organization as a whole and involving and representing all our academic departments’ the educational ecosystem. stakeholders including The studies and support We conducted surveys to Koç School Board of Directors departments’ work. evaluate the current situation in the days when this edition of our school, identify the will be published. We also For me, the 2018-2019 development areas and organized two workshops academic year was in many design and monitor the to promote collaboration ways a time of getting changes within the process. between our teachers and acquainted with The Koç Reading the parameters of the employees in issues for which School. I wanted to make the times accurately and basing they seek solutions. As a most efficient used of this decision-making processes on result of these workshops, we acquaintance period both data is an essential need for implemented all the decisions for the school and myself. In our school to achieve growth reached by collective wisdom. addition to meeting internal and change. The surveys will and external stakeholders be a regular communication We will continue to learn and understanding workflows, tool in our school so that each from our past experiences, medium- and long-term of our coworkers can make knowledge and values through organizational planning was their voices heard and share strong collaborations, deep also on my agenda. Since their opinions. ties of trust and collective the first day I took office as wisdom. I am confident that General Director, one of the We launched the Design the upcoming academic year objectives that I found very Thinking (DT) Program with will again be productive and important for our school the aim of looking at the great with the efficiency and ecosystem was to promote problems we face every day enlightenment we acquired and foster diversity of voices, from a fresh perspective from all the work we carried out participation and wealth of to find lasting and effective this year. different ideas. As we look solutions. This program equips back on the school year we left the participants with the skills I wish you all an enjoyable, behind, I would like to share to think as designers and sun-filled summer. EDITORIAL VOICE 3 HUMANS ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES IN PURSUIT OF PURPOSE To develop a new approach to education that aligns with stakeholders about driving change across the globe and in students’ lives, that efficiently uses resources and that sets an example for Turkey and the world… In line with this mission, The Koç School embarks on a new path to take fast and firm steps toward a purposeful, common goal that appeals to all its stakeholders. As the humans’ centuries-long pursuit of purpose gains momentum, institutions are just beginning to go through “existential crises”. The institutions that become aware of the ecosystems in which they exist understand that their borders extend beyond their buildings, their impacts are far more diverse than can be fitted into their year-end results and their problems are much deeper than meets the eye. They have discovered the importance of thinking about why they would do things rather than what they would do in this new world where moving faster than change is getting harder, competition is tougher than ever, and resources are gradually diminishing. 4 VOICE FEATURE Sustainable goals the top education institutions in Turkey. This change needs Through a variety of studies on Meaning and Purpose, to start with The Koç School as an institution. Therefore, world-renowned institutions, such as Harvard, Stanford, we are embarking on a journey when the meaning and and the University of California, draw attention to the purpose of The Koç School will be redefined according healthy development of individuals and organizations that to the needs of the next generation and a meaningful have the answers to the kind of change they want to make common purpose based on the school’s DNA will take in life. Research indicates that the mortality risk of people shape for all stakeholders. The goal is to develop a new who have a purpose in life and commit to sustainable approach to education that aligns with stakeholders about goals is 15 percent lower than those who don’t,1 while the driving change across the globe and in students’ lives, American College Health Association’s report states that that efficiently uses resources and that sets an example for 30 percent of students feel too depressed to perform basic Turkey and the world. functions.2 Another study suggests that the most common emotions among high school students in the US are Setting an example for the world boredom by 50 percent and fatigue by 42 percent.3 Several stakeholder groups, including The Koç School students, employees, Board members and alumni, along What is success for? with world-renowned experts, will contribute to this process William Damon, a professor of education at Stanford that will involve fast and firm steps. Everyone that is a University, known for his work on the lives of young people part of The Koç School is regarded as a stakeholder in and human development, says in his book, “The Path to this journey, which is strongly motivated by the mission of Purpose” that students today have higher achievements raising the next generation as individuals who are aware of than ever before and yet no idea about their “purpose”.4 their inner strengths and skills, and who are well-equipped Damon notes that according to the results of a study on to use their inherent abilities to improve themselves and 1,200 students between the ages of 12 and 26, if students to make the world a better place. All hands are on deck find a meaningful purpose in their lives and feel that they to develop an exemplary education approach that will be are part of something bigger, they will gain instant benefits built upon all the values of the school from the past to the to last a lifetime.5 However, only 17 percent of high school present! students say they have a goal.6 In another study, Dacher Keltner of the University of California proves that having a meaningful purpose in life increases the motivation of 7 students to overcome the challenges they face. Sources: 1.
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