Bring purpose, relevance, and impact to learning.

How are we helping students to thrive in the world they will inherit? Discover how you can bring the SDGs into your school to make content more relevant, help students uncover their purpose, and build the future ready skills that will enable them to thrive.

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Hackathons

  • Hackathons are fast paced events that bring together individuals to develop solutions to a challenge. We’ll work with educators to help them uncover how they might bring the SDGs into learning in a way that’s authentic, meaningful, and sustainable.

    *Hourly or multi-day workshops available.

    *Can be modified for students

  • In this fast-paced workshop, participants will devote time towards collaboration and problem-solving as they work together to uncover relevant and meaningful ways to incorporate the SDGs into learning. With this format participants will:

    • Learn more about the SDGs, social innovation, and sustainability - and how they impact our youth.

    • Understand the value of bringing the SDGs into learning for both teachers and students.

    • Practice entrepreneurial thinking and creative problem-solving as they develop ideas.

    • Receive coaching and support as they develop project plans to guide implementation.

    • Experience a new model of learning to hopefully try out with students!

    • Gain tools for brainstorming, collaboration, and creative problem solving.

SDG Bootcamp

  • Incorporating modern challenges like the SDGs into curriculum doesn’t have to be ‘extra’. We’ll unpack the SDGs for attendees and work together to explore how they might integrate these important themes into content and enhance pedagogy.

    In this bootcamp we facilitate using startup inspired tools like the Educator Canvas. Through a mix of skill-building, coaching, and support educators have the opportunity to brainstorm how they can shape new ideas and apply them in the classroom. Using lean principles, teachers will create personalized plans to implement new ideas that take into account the realities of project planning and leadership when working in the education space.

    • Understand the relationship between SDGs, sustainability, and social innovation and the future of work.

    • Assess for impact to enhance practices like PBL, inquiry based learning, and learner centered design.

    • Explore how the SDGs can drive skill-building and student-driven assessment.

    • Unleash power of entrepreneurial thinking to empower educators unlock their inner creator and problem-solver.

    • Apply startup inspired tools to improve project management skills, build leadership capacity, and improve outcomes for students

SDG Schools

  • What to Expect

  • Bootcamp with monthly check-ins.

    Develop and deploy a vision and strategy for how to weave the SDGs into learning and create a culture of changemaking.

    Sample Activities:

    Unpack topics like the SDGs, sustainability, and social innovation and how it relates to content, pedagogy, and student success.

    Craft a school-wide vision and strategic plan for integrating these topics into content.

    Provide personalized project planning support as teachers explore how to integrate this topics in a way that’s meaningful and authentic.

    Build a culture around changemaking so that efforts are sustained and impact seeps into the school community and beyond.

    • Facilitate collaboration and problem solving, as teachers use our startup inspired tools to personalize learning and provide authentic ways to bring new learnings into their practice.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

Founded by the United Nations, the global goals act as blueprint for how we might create a better world and build a more sustainable future. Learning about these goals offers ample opportunities to make content more meaningful and relevant while empowering students to build skills and unlock their inner creator as they explore how they might solve these challenges. Social innovation is what will produce a thriving world and will create the jobs of the future. How are you introducing these topics to your students?