A Cross-Generational Learning Experience
Changemaker Hubs are day-long learning experiences designed to unleash the creativity of students, educators, school leaders, and community members as they come together to think critically and creatively about the role of education in the modern world and how we can create a system that supports everyone.
Together, students, leaders, and community members will:
Reflect on our current education system and their experiences within it.
Engage in meaningful dialogue across roles and generations.
Co-imagine the future of teaching and learning we want to emerge - elevating ideas that they can bring back to their schools and districts.
Why Host a Changemaker Hub?
Elevating student voices is a priority for many schools and districts. At our Changemaker Hubs, not only do students get to share their lived experiences, but they get to exchange those experiences with educators, community members, and leaders across generations. This exchange of perspectives spurs innovative ideas for what the future of education can be. Here’s what you can expect from hosting a Changemaker Hub:
- Students develop solutions that can be shared at your schools and districts to start important conversations in the community to improve our education system
- Adults gain a new understanding of the student experience as well as the tools needed to support youth-led change
- Resources from World Savvy to help implement student ideas and continue dialogue at your schools, building connections between educators and school leaders toward sustainable change
Changemaker Hubs are a microcosm of
the larger work that World Savvy does
inside schools and districts.
Cultivate Connections
This experience brings multiple stakeholders together from across communities to engage with a real world problem that impacts everyone. All participants must lean into and practice the following competencies:
- Understand that one’s own culture and history is key to understanding one’s relationship to others
- Share knowledge and encourages discourse
- Approach thinking and problem solving collaboratively
- Engage willingly and openly with others
- Demonstrate self-awareness about identity & culture, & sensitivity and respect for differences
- Value multiple perspectives
- Choose empathy
- Recognize, articulate, and apply an understanding of different perspectives (including their own)
- Select and apply appropriate tools and strategies to communicate and collaborate effectively
- Listen actively and engage in inclusive dialogue
Promote Active Learning Through Inquiry
Students and adults will draw from their own lived experiences while seeking out the perspectives of others as they ask deep questions about the education system of which we are all a part. All participants must lean into and practice the following competencies:
- Seek out and apply an understanding of different perspectives to problem solving and decision making
- Form opinions based on exploration and evidence
- Understand that the current world system is shaped by historical forces.
- Question prevailing assumptions
- Demonstrate humility
- Investigate the world by framing questions, analyzing and synthesizing relevant evidence, and drawing reasonable conclusions that lead to further inquiry
Foster Knowledge-to-Action
The goal of this day is for students to collaborate and develop creative and informed solutions to the challenges we face in education. All participants must lean into and practice the following competencies:
- Adopt shared responsibility and takes cooperative action
- Translate ideas, concerns, and findings into appropriate and responsible individual or collaborative actions to improve conditions
- Understand that world events and global issues are complex and interdependent and multiple conditions fundamentally affect diverse global forces, events, conditions, and issues
- Utilize 21st century digital technology
- Apply critical, comparative, and creative thinking and problem solving
Reflect and Adapt
As students and adults engage in conversation and an exploration of our current education model, they will need to continually reflect on what they are learning and be cognitively nimble. All participants must lean into and practice the following competencies:
- Commit to the process of continuous learning and reflection
- Embrace new opportunities, ideas and ways of thinking
- Find comfort with ambiguity & unfamiliar situations
- Reflect on the context and meaning of our lives in relationship to something bigger
- Adapt to new situations and is cognitively nimble
- Demonstrate resilience in new situations
- In addition to providing an authentic opportunity for all participants to practice and develop these essential skills, Changemaker Hubs give schools and districts insight into World Savvy’s model, and can often be followed by deeper partnership
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