Climate Education
The Disaster Book Series
COPE is a series of illustrated not-for-profit books, aimed to increase the disaster resilience of children. Covering natural hazards ranging from floods to earthquakes, wildfires to cyclones, the books provide coping tools, preparedness, and relatab...
Future of Work
Turning Learning Into Leadership: Preparing Students for the Future of Work
This story of impact showcases Alria Monteiro Kharage, a Teach For India alumna who is redefining career readiness in rural India through Asude, the social enterprise she co-founded with her partner. With its transformative North Star Program, Asude ...
TACL
Clint Smith: Aristotle
In this video from 2014, Clint Smith (Teach For America) performs a poem exploring his experience of teaching and his vision for helping students think deeply about social injustice and how to navigate complex power structures with a strong sense of ...
TACL
Polaridades - Comunidad como Poder
En este ejercicio reflexivo, podrás reflexionar acerca de dónde nos encontramos dentro de un espectro completo de perspectivas relacionadas con esta lente. Y consideramos qué otros espectros de perspectivas se relacionan con esta lente.
TACL
Teacher and Students, Growing Together
This article from 2015 uses Empieza Por Educar fellow Óliver Jabato's experience to reflect on two patterns we see in transformational classrooms around the world: collective ownership (teachers and students sharing ownership of learning) and student...
Education in Emergencies
Defusing Conflict
A guide for teachers on how to defuse tension and reduce conflict in difficult situations. Lesson activities are designed to help students when tensions are in the air and a disagreement seems to be building into something more threatening. Students ...
TACL
Polarities - Our Work as Systemic
In this reflective exercise, we reflect on where we are on a full spectrum of perspectives related to this lens and we consider what other “spectra” of perspectives are related to the lens of Our Work as Systemic.
Climate Education
What is Waste?
The website provides five 60-minute modules around the topic of waste. The modules include audio and visual aids, as well as activity sheets designed in alignment with the Malaysian Secondary School Curriculum Standard. A corresponding training cours...
Girls' Education
Facing the Facts: The Case for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
This policy paper discusses how governments can overcome social resistance and operational constraints to scale up comprehensive sexuality education programs as part of their commitment to Sustainable Development Goal #4, the global education goal.
Climate Education
The Edible Schoolyard Project
The site showcases grade specific unit plans on organic school gardening to learn about the values of nourishment, stewardship, and community. They can serve as great guidance for engaging students and the wider school community in hands-on school ga...