YL AT SCHOOL

MAKE *CREATING A GOOD WORLD FOR ALL* PART OF LIFE & LEARNING CULTURE

Teachers

use hero*ine solution stories for subjects

They LIVE

their professional aspirations

They LOVE

Gryffindore Student Clubs + collaborate

They activate

colleagues + principal, also at other schools

They do Projects

also supported by Student Clubbers

They organize

extra-curricular activities

Changemaker Student Club

uniting students across classes and years for year-round fireworks of action

400+ Activities

modeled on 100 changemakers’ high impact initiatives in the #BeMoreAwesome Youth Changemaker Program

Rich resources and relations

sourced from a global community of changemakers, coaches and clubs

Constant Presence

with LemonAID stands, lifestyle challenges, petitions …

Exhibits

on hero*ines, solutions, with immediate action opportunities

UN Theme Days

Environment, Youth Skills, Teachers, Radio, Water, … 50 Days through the year … with action, involving teachers, journalists, civil society

Actions at School & beyond

Favorites for everybody, involving the student body

Headquarter = LearnSpace

The best fun vibrant hangout, serving the whole school community as learning environment, teachers find able presenters and coaches here

Project Days and Weeks

are brought to life with meaning and action

Ultimate Role Models, Mentors + Assistant Teachers

at school and beyond

Youth age 8-18 in our free #BeMoreAwesome program have a global community of youth crews, changemakers, coaches. It’s like meeting them at your public library – just online. They self-organize like #fff – not for protests but PROJECTS. On all causes.

Parents

support on-demand

They boost

the Student Club with resources + relations

They activate

their Workplaces. This goes a LONG WAY!

“The idea of education is not to turn us into your kind of adults. But into better adults than you have been.”

Adora Svitak, age 13

TRAIN TEACHERS + STUDENTS

A swift and solid introduction to Youth Leadership and YL Programs,

optionally with focus on your local setting, problems, potentials and goals.

Certification gives access to YL Tribe resources and relations. It enables you to guide Crash Courses and coach others. It forms solid common ground on which we can swiftly build larger projects, and we will accompany you on your ventures.

Crash Course for STUDENTS

An up to 5 step process. Steps 1 and 2 form a solid foundation to self-organize projects, activate peers, adults and use the full scope of YL programs as part of our global Tribe

Training for TEACHERS

We train groups of staff on youth leadership essentials, YL programs, changemaker student clubs, on how to use media, projects, UN Days, partners, SDGs + we can address local context

Master Classes

We accompany your unfolding projects via video and team up for projects, school partnerships, work visits, youth exchange and LearnSpace evolution

Certificate

YL Coach, Creative Youth Coach – with UNESCO and UN University status

Qualified to mentor Peers

IN CLUBS

IN CLASS

BEYOND SCHOOL

Able to involve Adult Allies

COLLEAGUES

PARENTS

PARTNERS

BRING SUBJECTS TO LIFE

Use authentic solutions stories and role models connecting to activities, speakers and project partners

MATH

calculate cost of building a school in the Himalayan mountains

MUSIC

learn, sing, translate, compose Change Generation Music

ART

co-create art, film, radio

SPORTS

carry water, do sponsor runs

BIOLOGY

restore rivers, set up permaculture gardens

LANGUAGES

read english hero*ine stories, translate to text, audio, film

THEATRE

bring hero*ine stories to life in participative theatre

HISTORY

set up dyeing gardens, source colors from plants, do research, make ink, oil paint, dyes, cosmetics …

LIFE SKILLS

plan projects, organize group activities, coach children, 

SOCIAL STUDIES

consumer rights, industry fraud, positive news maga-zine, ecocide law

STEM

3D print prosthetic hands for children in remote villages in India

GEOGRAPHY

Bulgaria, Kenya, environmental and social challenges and solutions

REAL Projects

Work on real cases, real products and media that change lives, serve real people, make impact of societal relevance

Get PUBLISHED

Your projects, outcomes, products and testimonials get published on YL media, your social media and local news

Self-organized FOLLOW-UP

Inspired students can build on what they have done – as club, also outside school.

THIS is RARE opportunity. REAL WORLD Learning at its BEST.

Teachers are so important.

“The best way they can help is get their students passionate about things like the environment and science and cool things in general.

Where there is passion, people are willing to do something. Teachers can help start ecoclubs at school, and just get participation going by getting the kids educated about the environment and getting them involved.”

Students need to have motivation

“… before they start.

Adults cannot push students to do community service. Youth-Leader’s efforts to inspire students to do something are very important.

Another important factor is project ownership. The students need to have ownership of the project so they are most likely to stick with it. They need to take pride in their work and be proud of their project.”

Cassandra Lin, age 15

BIGGER PROJECTS

Bigger projects are actually more easy,
since big stories inspire more people to take part.

Project Partnerships

with real hero*ines leading high impact initiatives.

Join rolling projects that need your help to reach next levels. Your contribution helps reach remarkable milestones and shape the future of entire regions. You will see success unfold online, meet live, bring in own ideas and pay work, exchange, family and volunteer visits.

This is an extraordinary opportunity and truly the easiest way to get started with a great story to make waves in your school, community and media.

We Are The ARK

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Red Brigade Trust

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Walk With Rangers

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Youth Leadership Centres in South Africa

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Babar Ali's School

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and more

Global SDG School Challenge

LIVE THE SDGs IN ACTION – by taking an action with tangible impact on each of the 17 SDGs.

Choose from over 200 proposed activities pioneered by teen hero*ines. If they can do it, your youth can do it. 

You can even do and complete it, easily – as 1 Class. As more people get involved, you can aim higher, take advanced actions and gain BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD Trophies.

This is a wonderful multi-year program or soft and flexible holistic curriculum powered to 90% by students, with a Club at its core, and “as you please” meshed with subjects, school fest, project week, UN Days – inviting parents, partners and citizenry to join a common Quest with spectacular results.

Pan-European School Partnerships

In the spirit of pre-1990 school dialogues for peace and intercultural understanding … we establish school partnerships for projects to protect natural and cultural heritage, to reduce rural disconnection with high rates of poverty, prostitution, trafficking and organized crime. 

Project focus includes small business, eco-cultural tourism, wildlife migration trails, climate crisis resilience.

Kicked off by Crash Courses on Youth Leadership students from both sides meet via video to discuss life, problems, potentials, needs and harness their powers to get things rolling, activate citizens, media, allies … spinning off self-organization in clubs and beyond school. 

Holistic development work without great distance, cultural barriers or health risks; aiming for visits, project-oriented youth exchange and family travel along Fairy Trails of several schools with youth-led hosting, guided tours and activities. Creating the Europe we love at its best!

Project-oriented Youth Exchange

Add meaning to international student trips.

Many teachers and students doubt air travel for lukewarm language study on a tourist and shopping spree.

Make your journey a work visit on a high impact project, an immersion with local people, led by youth that already know each other via internet and share common vision.

The journey is a highlight of a year of preparation and action on both sides, meshed with student club FUNdraisers, activities of all sorts. Vividly documented it generates media presence to grow reach, supporters and impact on return to grow the program bigger. Spins off beyond school.

It’s high end action for SDGs = opportunity for funding

Host the Red Brigade on their European Tour 2022

A COMMON QUEST

for the whole school community, even parents and partners,

for everyone to bring in talent, resources and relations for their favorite causes,

and it’s all voluntarily

MULTI-YEAR PROGRAMS

for reaching bigger milestones or trophies

assigning responsibilities to experienced students

building bonds, visits, exchanges

self-organized spin-off crews beyond school that strengthen the partnership and make it durable

 

FEASIBLE BY 1 CORE CREW

of committed students. Setting the epic goal and inviting everybody’s involvement is no ‘make it or break it’ matter.

Project Partnerships and SDG Challenges are run by Changemaker Student Clubs. The idea is just to activate more people to experience their blissful powers to create a good world of peace, joy and abundance

THIS is RARE opportunity. REAL WORLD Learning at its BEST.

SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE

Learn practical activities from world class experts and coaches

Learn from tutorials

Real-life value

Crafts

Vegan Bliss

Germinate + Ferment

Plant + Grow

Music + Arts

In the Wild

Positive News Media

Lifestyle Challenges

Charity

Vividly document + share + inspire

REAL VALUE

to make life at home, in the family more awesome, but also useful for Philanthro-Parties, connecting with children, families and allies in town.

Teach Friends

Enjoy sharing relevant, impressive, surprising skills fast

Teach Groups, officially

students, elementary schools, project weeks, public libraries, town fests, holiday programs … certified YL Creative Youth Coaches have a wide scope of offers, skills and can get recompensation

“There is no reason that a school can or will prevent you from starting a project with a good cause if you don’t ask for funding and follow the rules. And that’s how we change the world.

Because we can.”

Cassandra Lin, age 15

ACTION GALORE

High pedagogical value

Mentor Peers

at school/s

Excursions

eco-cultural heritage

Edible Landscapes

ecosystems-restoration

Social Business

Fair Fashion

UN Day Action

50 themes, 100s of activities

Hero*ine Speakers

via video + at school

Positive Media

co-create magazine, film and radio

Youth Exchanges

for projects with changemakers

IT CHANGES LIVES

It enables youth to shape society for the better and they know it

IT ANIMATES PUBLIC SPACE

It makes life in the city more vivid, creates positive ambience and a sense of active citizenship and quality of life

IT BUILDS BONDS

among students, youth, generations, professionals in town, and with like-hearted peers and changemakers all over the planet

It enables youth to shape their Learning Journey in life, with many friendly relations and open doors for friendship, travel, internships, trainings and entrepreneurship.

SHAPE SCHOOL GROUNDS

A PLACE FOR LIVING & LEARNING & EXPERIMENTING
Schools is a co-living community for 10+ years.
Let’s make it pleasant and awesome, not dull and full of bullies. 

PHILANTHRO-PARTIES

Fun stands and activities where the cycle of resources leads to people in need

TRAINING + LEARNING

Learn skills, train another, wield skills for real use from planting to food preparation, making deodorant, fashion and more 

SENSORY GARDENS

Make the world beautiful, educational, peaceful, plentiful for your students but also for little ones at other schools

EDIBLE LANDSCAPES

Use yards, walls, halls, adjacent lots and parks for multi-level permaculture, food forests and more so the land has meaning, purpose and youth experience their work, yields, abundance for themselves and others

NURSERIES

Boost insect, pollinator and bird populations with insect walls, butterfly nurseries and gardens on school grounds and beyond as outer school LearnScapes. These can also be installed as a project,  like in forests, national parks or senior homes

EXPERIMENTAL SPACES

Build a micro lot that houses and feeds a family with minimal effort but all creature comfort. A must in dry countries, but also elsewhere as an experience of ability, sovereignity, flexibility and in-dependence

A LEARNSCAPE

for the entire school community, including parents and guests;

option to open spaces beyond school hours, also in collaboration with youth leaders, civil society and local community

OWNER- & STEWARDSHIP

You shape it in beauty, you love it, you protect it. What’s true for the school grounds shall be true for the entire city in a collaborative, peaceful, sustainable society.

Only daily over 10 years at school can  citizens unfold these skills 

WELL-BEING

It feels good at many levels. It makes peace, it inspires. This boosts academic performance

BEYOND SCHOOL FENCES

Relevant youth-led projects cascade into real life,
they bring the City and Educational Learning Landscape to Life.

FAMILIES

Youth reach and enrich their families with activities at home, neighborhood, workplace, on excursions and holiday travel to hero*ines

PUBLIC SPACES

Youth crews do FUNdraiser stands at markets, fests, waterfronts, do vigils, educational paths, stop street harassment campaigns and more that boost quality of life in town

ALLIES

Crews team up with coaches, organizations, grocery stores and many more, with benefits for everyone involved

MEDIA

Crews generate splendid positive news that uplift flair in news media, involve and empower audiences, and add purpose to journalists’ life

IT EVOKES POSITIVE CHANGE

in many regards, in ways that adults cannot achieve, even if they wanted to

YOUTH STATUS

Public presence, flair and societal image of youth changes to the positive.

Youth have always deserved it. They have always been the spring flowers to take society to a new more lively level. But over 5,000 years of civilization empire brutish adults made them grow up in a garbage can. Together, we can change it!

SCHOOL AS EPI-CENTRE OF GOOD INNOVATION

If you wish school to have a good standing in society and your district, you have to earn it. It’s not done by subject teaching.

“Teachers are our young generation’s most important ally. They decide, whether we get a chance to learn to create a good world, or not.”

Craig Kielburger, co-founder Free The children, WE

Teachers and students report on the WE School service learning program experience

  • Teachers feel professionally more fulfilled 78% 78%
  • Teachers have discovered new leadership skills in their students 82% 82%
  • Students feel more confident 89% 89%
  • Students volunteering beyond school 91% 91%

OUTER SCHOOL HQs

Like with sports clubs and tournaments, changemaking REALLY happens on late afternoons, evenings, week-ends and holidays. Beyond school hours. Fired up youth need spaces of learning to meet and realize projects, also at an intersection with the public, to activate citizens and grow their supportive community, such as Public Libraries

Family Homes

Mega movements like Free The Children and March For Our Lives started in living rooms. Students can meet in family homes, they find ways, no problem

LearnSpaces

For optimal impact youth need places to gather, unite with youth from their district’s other schools and realize projects. Further, they need this at an intersection with the public to activate citizens and grow supportive community. This is also a place for workshops with coaches. It is a big win-win for host spaces like public libraries

Temporary HQs

should also be considered. That’s stands, get togethers at parks, flea + farmers markets, festivals …

We provide materials to set up LearnSpaces, preferably as add-on (e.g. in a Public Library), with methods and partners to run exciting programs, and certification as National Youth Leadership Learning Centre.

These spaces collaborate with schools for workshops and more. Youth MAY CHOOSE them as HQ, if it fits. That is the ultimate goal. But it doesn’t always fit.

Hence, as a teacher, student, parent and partner, you can sit down together and find and activate such spaces. 

ACTIVE CITIZENRY

It nurtures an active citizenry in many ways at many levels

POSITIVE FUTURE

It strongly boosts and good now and a good future. WITH WARRIOR CLANS at all schools the future will be fine. Without them … not so much. #bemoreawesome

FEEDS BACK INTO SCHOOL LEARNING & PROJECTS

Activities beyond school grow reach, allies, experience, connections to places, coaches, partners … feed back into school activities by teaching peers what one has learned and collaboration with these people

Getting started is easy.

As usual, it begins with the Crash Course.

With that knowledge, you can set sparks as a student, teacher, parent, volunteer YL Coach, or City. Also as donor, funder, investor in your neighborhood. 

WE ARE HERE TO HELP.