#TeachersForFuture
“Teachers are our generation’s most important allies.
They decide if we can learn to create a good world for all, or not.” Craig Kielburger, WE
Co-create Media & Publish
Media literacy is en vogue among educators, parents and funders. Usually, it means
- in the U.S. : tech skills
- in Germany : decipher truth, manipulation, context
- to us : producing positive change media, i.e. solution stories presented in memorable, inspirational, empowering form
Here’s what we have to offer : how about your students find, interview, report on changemakers and solutions, get a regional conversation going by cocreating a kicass POSITIVE NEWS MAGAZINE – with the aim to amplify positive changes?
We can at last live our purpose!
not just co2 emissions voting and waiting, but everything that needs doing , act right away, act by new paradigm, of sovereign responsible citizens
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We invite your contribution!
casual or solid, short or long-term.
1. Tell us about cool resources
2. More exciting : use our resources, tell us about your use, send in your creations, for us to publish and inspire others.
welcome video Eric
we don’t provide you with CO2 stuff. we’ll link to some good resources.
You know that solving global and societal issues are about much more than CO2 molecules and a few laws. You also know that a student’s personality and skills takes time to evolve.
Hence, we provide you with the tools, tricks, support and partners for a new learning culture (proven at 16,000+ schools) that nurtures youth leadership, active citizenship, evokes remarkable changes for people and planet, enriches learning culture, serves the greater community, and makes your days much more fulfilling. How is that? The key to all this are Changemaker student Clubs uniting your caring youth for year-round self-organized activities for people and planet, backed by a global tribe of like-hearted youth, adult allies, and today’s Einsteins and Gandhis, no joke! And – you.
You’ll find much more on our website, also with more details to make school awesome, crash courses for youth, teaching tools … this page serves as overview of what we got, and what’s now available to you – with a focus on CLIMATE matters.
It’s not a little bit. And that’s good! Because with a couple of brochures you cannot cultivate a new learning culture! We offer you plenty of amazing things, and as a good teacher – your eyes should open wide, and you should smile ear to ear. So many exciting years ahead, now!
Get a drink, sit back and enjoy!
Teachers are the most important ally of our young generation. They decide if young people get the chance to grow up learning how to create a good world, or not.
Craig Kielburger
“Never before has a teacher’s profession been more important for humanity.”
Craig Kielburger
We value you super high!
We know that conventional schools can be tough on idealist teachers. Hence, our aim is two-fold.
To give you humanity’s finest resources to provide the education, and the self-organized learning that the Change Generation needs to upgrade our societies and make it through the 21st Century.
To enrich your daily life, aligned with your aspirations as a professional, citizen and human. Oh what joy to see Gryffindore crews wield magic and create good in the world in record pace and scale!
Our focus
is not on CO2 science teaching.
We give you practical youth leaderhip stuff to make things exciting. stuff you find nowhere else, and the things you’d love anyway, whatever the climate does : hero*ines + solutions + activities
We help you make “creating a good world for all” part of learning culture, powered by students passionate about it, based on successful models at more than 16,000 schools.
Teachers
are busy with their work, administration, students’ troubles, a lot of things. Your role is simply to offer gentle support, with simple steps, with swift results, and win-win benefits for your subject teaching.
Students
have the spirit, the energy, the time, and other superpowers that help them outperform adults. They do 98% of the work.
Your role is simple. There is no doubt that you can do it.
Activate Yourself as Adult
Teachers are the young generation’s most important ally. Stay casually informed by connecting for free with our programs and get involved as you please.
Use stories as add-ons
to bring global issues alive through solutions, role models told in vivid, memorable multimedia
Inform (new) students on youth leadership
Organize LEVEL UP! crash course sessions in class
Cooperate with change-maker student clubs
Give them the best space at school, support on-demand, invite contributions in class, implement the YL Curriculum: every teacher integrate youth leadership once per semester as they please, to make it omni-present and normal for all kids’ worldview
Resources related to climate
from our vast scope of resources
Climate science
Quality resources on the science, emissions, scenarios, online collections on #teachersforfuture platforms in different languages.
Role Models & Solutions
Changemakers leading wildly successful initiatives for people and planet, related to different aspects of climate harmony.
Authentic stories
with vivid visuals, videos, social media updates and opportunity to get involved.
YL Magazine & more
Stories, columns, videos, music tell the unfolding story of the Change Generation, live before your eyes, calling you to get involved in spreading it, co-writing it.
Use for research, group work, translate, research, write, create local editions, also radio, video, art … as part of the global magazine network.
YL Speakers & Field Partners
Meet LIVE and collaborate in real-time with today’s hero*ines leading high impact initiatives.
Team up to boost their work to the next inter/national level, change lives, feel your agency, bring in own ideas, meet live, even go visit.
Make your Region Climate-Crisis Resilient
while reducing emissions and activating a much greater part of citizens to create the society, community life, peaceful economy and future they want – based on common sense policies and solutions already successfully implemented by communes around the planet.
Your Focus
as inhabitant of your region is this : to restore Paradise.
You shall not wait for national government to spend billions to pay adults to restore your local natural ecosystems, edible landscapes and create peace among local humans, animals and nature.
This is ridiculous – it is too expensive, takes too long, local councils would even resist this top-down order, and the young generation would sit idle, and stay impotent voters like today’s adults, waiting to be governed like in a de/centralized quasi-monarchy.
Instead, your role is to act as able, active, caring citizens, a responsible steward and guardian of your local region, your land, your people and your relations, your economy, your peace – by learning and implementing humanity’s finest solutions :
Quadruple biodiversity, pollinators, fertile soil, water, free foods, a sense of active citizenry – and city councils will love it, and say, “wow, we always wanted to do this, but couldn’t afford it,” and youth will team up with foresters, public servants, organic farmers etc.
This is the new citizen that our societies need, and The Purpose Of Schooling, and it perfectly synchs with your fiery passion, sense of urgency, of education, of action and the required impact – en masse.
Fired up students will self-organize for action beyond school hours, like they do with sports and music, and this is where the huge impact is made (also like in sports and music).
But you, at school, are the hub and training ground where to learn, unite and practice with exciting first results.
We give you excellent resources and support to make it fun, impactful and a rich learning experience, too!
Focus :
Ecosystem Restoration
Healing the wounds of the Earth
restoring abundance, joy and peace
Protecting the Earth from abuse
We have grown so used to believing that things we produce, buy, and sell are the basis of the economy, it is hard to imagine that actually the wind, rain, and air are more valuable. – John D. Liu
Focus :
Paradise City
The City we all want to live in
Making life awesome – with thriving community, friendship, no violence, no crime, no harassment, exciting public spaces, active citizenry restores and upgrades the social cohesion that we need for
- resilience – to stand together against threat and catastrophe (scared, survival)
- cocreativity – trust, appreciation, common sense agreement and encompassing vision to create the GOOD next level collaborative society together (our shared dream, LIVING!)
Focus :
We Create the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene begins to be communicated as new worldview, also at school. It serves to create big picture view and show the agency of humanity and humans, but it is so far badly done, like climate info – by fact checkers that know nothing of solutions and changemaker spirit. As this is about extinction, this is hurtful.
Already, teachers report that students break down in tears in the classroom, and they don’t know how to help the young generation. We offer help. We shift the story, vision and “to-do”
- from seeing life wither to ashes wasting time on petitions, munching on organic muesli bars, proud of a jute bag, hoping for Obama #fail
- to restoring life in record time through implementing high impact, transformational solutions at local and global level, that change lives, laws and industries, and prepare our upgrade to the next level collaborative society beyond outdated interest group democracy.
Yes, Harry, it’s big. It’s a new planetary age.
Focus :
Hands-on Action
right at Home
Climate Crisis Resilient Region
All this talk about far away CO2, companies, government, waiting, frustrated, disempowered. No hands on action, no results for animals and planet.
But solutions for climate matters are at local level, and they add up hugely, as towns declare “climate emergency”. Now make them follow up with meaningful solutions!
Take a moment to play with the idea of shifting away from preventing climate crisis (it has begun) or creating change (which conservative, visionless people resist) to PROTECTING WHAT WE HAVE – the land, the food, the well-being, the peace, the culture … by strengthening that which sustains it – the land and the local community. Get it? It’s precisely what got neglected for profit. But now, in emergency, it is our right to implement it. No one can condemn us to a future of drought, poverty and violence. How daaare they? Bingo!
And it’s all hands-on, powered by people – by youth, and adult allies across generations.
Focus :
Positive Change
Media Culture
Media literacy is en vogue among educators, parents and funders. Usually, it means
- in the U.S. : tech skills
- in Germany : detect manipulation
- to us : produce meaningful content uplifting society, epower to overcome crisis, through role model solution stories presented in memorable, inspirational, empowering form
1. Report solutions
that empower citizens
2. We will only protect what we love
document natural and cultural heritage in a young, fun, positive, magical way
Support
EXPERT SPEAKERS
give you quality insights to global issues.
+ Resources
for preparation and follow-up activities.
+ Turn inspiration into action
with a profound practical learning experience rippling into students’ hearts, homes, the community, media and school.
#FRIDAYSFORFUTURE STUDENTS
How to harmonize their passion and goals with school, with 1,000 fold impact and win-win benefits for everyone involved.
LONG-TERM PROJECT PARTNERS
Team up with amazing changemakers and take their initiatives to the next level and inter/national scale.
TIP : Class and course travel
If fly, then meaningful. Class and course travel are of course
Tips
Use special Occasions
UNITED NATIONS Days help you package topics in a more interesting, meaning- and impactful way. They focus attention, energy and partnerships to create output reach and impact.
Our UNITED NATIONS Theme Days CALENDER of ACTION connects with forests, water, ocean, biodiversity, peace, girls, teachers, habitat, charity, mountains, wetlands, deserts, violence against women, youth skills, science for development, migrants, food … with role models and solution stories for each.
All these things take the issue of climate harmony far beyond vague CO2 belief bubbles to concrete truths and hands on work.
Use these occasions, pertaining UN websites’ resources, our hero*ines, your ideas to address this topic (in relation to climate change, and per se) with a special focus on solutions and people- / youth-powered action
Organize a creative activity, such as an artistic kaleidoscopic exposit, FUNdraiser, excursion, vertical food garden, pollinator campaign and vividly document for YL, social, news media
Connect with teachers, journalists, organizations – for greater reach and impact. It is a win-win for everybody.
- teachers enjoy UN Day occasions to treat topics
- media upgrade reporting with solutions and hero*ines
- organizations enrich their events with youth action
- cities, public libraries embrace your uplifting presence
Use your “Education Landscape”
Your region is full of partners, playing fields, opportunities. The concept of Education Landscape / Bildungslandschaft is making its way into communal policies. Many struggle to build meaningful connections between partners. Changemaking naturally facilitates exciting creative collaborations with journalists, organizations, organic farmers etc – powered by changemaker student clubs.
Use your local LearnScapes
Terrain, in our eyes, is a permaculture, bee and butterfly garden, feeding the canteen, and home to cultural and technical installations. Can you turn a nearby park, street, waterfront, an empty lot or walls into an edible landscape?
City council, farmers, civil society, businesses with terrain can win-win benefit. What dreams do your district‘s teenage changemaker crews want to make true?
Questions
As a teacher, I can do some cool activities. But for bigger projects I need a team. How can I create one?
Well, not only adults have to become different from the past 40 years. Also students need to be different from the students of the past 40 years.
Teenage hero*ines operating as changemaker student clubs at school show us how this works. The real TFF & FFF & PFF work is to cultivate a culture of full spectrum youth leadership at school. Welcome to our world!
Embed your work in the bigger framework of Youth Leadership
Make “creating a good world for all” part of learning culture,
powered by students on fire to do good for people and planet
Changemaker Student Clubs
are high impact student club running a wide scope of activities, strongly involving the student body. It is important that you know, respect and support them – so they can unfold their enormous and far-reaching superpowers, and you can collaborate.
Omni-presence at school as club, with HQ, FUNdraising stands, exhibits, presentations, fest actions, informs and involves the entire school community
Powered by students on fire
for positive change, like athletes
It’s not about the structure (a club), it’s about SPIRIT.
Hence, compulsory formal class setting activities can only achieve a very basic level – like with sport or music. Let the New Highly Gifted team up to unfold their skills, and they will act as role models and mentors for their peers for years, tuned to everybody’s favorite causes and inner clock.
Contributions to subjects, projects, fests are natural for young changemakers. They are your experts on what’s cooking on media, inspirational videos, speeches, your animators for group projects, and spokespeople for media.
Year-round multi-faceted action
A changemaker student club is not about protest criticizing the old dysfunctional but about implementing solutions that make the problems obsolete.
They lead projects with high societal impact, presence in public and media, contibute to subject teaching, involve the entire school community and education landscape, with win-win benefits for everyone involved.
Linking with the greater community beyond school
The club naturally connects with parents, citizenry, media, organizations, libraries, city, enterprises …
We seek a long-term program framework for our School development
Cool. We have some stuff that you may find useful. This will keep you busy and your people inspired.
Happy to help
and accompany you
Re-dreaming New Mexico
was a fabulous initiative by Bioneers. Now let’s do this for your city and region! Begin as a mindgame, using the real playing field, to potentially turn into real action. After all, shaping the future begins with vision. yes, Future Sciences is part of our disciplines, nudge nudge.
Re-dream your region
Paradise City & Paradise Country are two YL resource collections full of good practices replicable by people everywhere.
We also have something for climate crisis resilience.
Transform and upgrade your home region into a
Climate Crisis Resilient Region
Cities are declaring “climate emergency”. This is the perfect time to complement the FFF call for reducing CO2 bubble emissions (and waiting for faraway decisions on grand industry transfor-mation sabotaged by dirty lobbies, fools and lazy citizens alike) while our forests burn, harvests drop, water depletes and peace erodes. Sitting idle would be plain stupid.
Our CCRR Teaching Tool
a cardset of 70+ existing common sense model solutions implemented by citizens and communes spread out on the city map is everyone’s practical guide on what to do next to
- mitigate climate change impact
- restore strong ecosystems and abundant biodiversity
- restore trusting community and vibrant culture
- reduce the need for excessive consumption
- reduce violence, abuse, crime
- make school awesome
- create the city we all want to live in
because that’s what positive change to sustainability is all about, what it means to shift from scared to sacred.
WE CREATE THE ANTHROPOCENE.
Questions
Be aware
With us, you have a superb quality connection.
Be realistic
We are not (yet) a multi-million dollar operation.
Our time and resources are limited, we are doing our best.
Learn
The urgent need of the CHANGE GENERATION calls you to develop a good understanding of the Essentials Of Youth Leadership, so you sharpen your focus for what matters
- for your students
- for your greater community
- and how your work contributes to it
Our online coaching gives you those skills, fast.
Get real
Protecting what we love and creating a positive future goes far beyond CO2 emissions voting and waiting – and your 100s of students need to know this and get instant guidance and opportunity to learn the multifaceted skills needed.
The quest of our lifetime is to upgrade to the next level collaborative society of able, active caring citizens that have actively overcome totalitarian religion, monarchy, fascism, beating up children, women, gay people, and next now we overcome dirty industry and mind control. Big deal.
Nurturing high impact youth leadership activates the required operating system in the young generation.
We have come to this planet at this special time for a reason, and we have not come to fail. So, rock hard, baby!