Sustainability

Educators play a pivotal role in enabling our students to develop values, skills, and knowledge required to create equitable, cooperative & sustainable societies. While concepts such as social justice, environmental appreciation, critical thinking, and imaginative problem solving are integral cornerstones to creating an awareness amongst our students about sustainability – this isn’t quite enough. Changing the way our students think and act – as individuals & societies – is the aim of education for sustainable development.

As an organisation that aims to equip – not only students – but educators with skills for the future, we’re inviting presenters to explore a new area at the 12th Annual 21st Century Learning Conference in 2020.

Areas to Explore in this Theme:

Education for Sustainable Development
Student Service
Integration of Sustainability into Existing Curriculum
Whole School Sustainability
Change Management & Sustainability

21CLI Event Sustainability Pledge

Did you know that we have a sustainability pledge? We hope will promote the concept of sustainability within our own communities of educators, schools, partners, and suppliers. Our Sustainability Pledge is about ensuring that we always try to do the right thing, and by doing this, encourage others who are involved in some way with our events, to go back to their schools or organizations and consider what they might do as well.

Preconference Workshop

One Day Workshop: The Empathy to Impact Approach

In this pre-conference workshop, Inspire Citizens will work deeply with participants on applying the Empathy to Impact Approach into personalized pedagogical contexts in order to seamlessly embed Global Competence strands, Sustainable Development Goals, and active citizenship into pre-existing units and curriculum. Read more>>

Workshop Opportunities

1.5 Hour Extended Workshop: 17 Skills for 17 Goals

Care, Aware, Able, Impact: A Student Leadership Toolkit for Implementing the UN SDGs

In order to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with substantial impact, Inspire Citizens works with both students and teachers to build leadership and collaboration skills through an Empathy to Impact experience centered on 17 soft skills and tools.

Participants will experience the power of skills like active listening, applying root cause analysis, employing indicators for measuring sustainability, examining true price of actions, integrating wellness, and delivering on missions. Participants will learn how to embed these skills into diverse curriculum and standards, student leadership programs, and experiential and service learning opportunities.

There will be overlap in this session from those that attended the one day pre-conference.

1 Hour Workshop: Global Impact Schools

A Blueprint for Sustainable, Transformative Education for Community Impact

What does it mean to be a school that is dedicated to learning for sustainability, the full implementation of global competency in curriculum, and relevant community impact? The Inspire Citizens’ Global Impact School model provides a blueprint that allows educators and schools to pinpoint areas of opportunity and development around nine strands for greatest, sustainable impact. Participants will get hands-on opportunities to experience of each of the stands, helping to pinpoint next steps towards transformative global competence education via:

Analyzing opportunities and parlaying cultural, geographical, and educational strengths of the school and community.
Supporting missions, visions, and unity of community culture around global competence
Ensuring research-driven, best practices in professional learning communities and development
Seamlessly embedding global competence into pre-existing curriculum, pedagogical approaches, and new initiatives to bring relevance and life to teaching and learning.
Creating student, teacher, and community wellbeing programs that identify wellness strands connected to social-emotional learning, physical, financial, and mental health.
Partnering locally and globally to implement the UN SDGs and global competence initiatives by students, teachers, and whole schools
Sparking inquiry into the campus as a learning lab, highlighting operations and management practices of the school that allows for relevant learning and sustainable thinking.
Facilitating soft skills: the human and people skills that support student leadership, communication, and collaboration to develop community impact projects and high level service learning relationships.
Enhancing the responsible production and consumption of media through a unique Global Youth Media platform and program.

Strand Facilitators

Aaron Moniz

Inspire Citizens Co-director and Founder Global Impact Schools: Lead Consultant and Facilitator

Steve Sostak

Inspire Citizens Co-director and Founder Global Impact Schools: Lead Consultant and Facilitator

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21CLHK12 promises to be our biggest conference yet, and we definitely hope to see you there. If you would like to begin your registration please go right ahead

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ABOUT THE ORGANIZER

21st Century Learning (21CL) organizes top-tier conferences and events that align with its mission of “Building Communities of Learners”

Aside from 21CLHK our annual event portfolio includes the inaugural GBA School Awards, International School Conference Asia, AI & Future of Education Conference, PHASE (Physical Education, Athletics, Health & Wellness), OFFSEAS (Outdoor Education), Lead to Succeed (Education Leadership) and InnovateEDU South Korea. Led by educators with deep experience in Education Leadership, Professional Learning, EdTech and Progressive Pedagogy. 21CL also offers consultancy and professional learning services for schools.