Featuring our Friends and Colleagues
We are reaching out to colleagues and friends to share what we are working on and to help amplify the important work happening across our community. Our goal is to spread the word about our initiatives while also highlighting and celebrating the meaningful projects and contributions of those around us.
Inspire Citizens
Call for Hosts: Regional Student Leadership Conferences (2026–27)
Each year, Inspire Citizens hosts 8–10 Regional Student Leadership Conferences, bringing together students, educators, and changemakers to explore leadership, global citizenship, and real-world action. These conferences create opportunities for students to collaborate, share ideas, and develop the skills needed to lead meaningful change in their communities.
Inspire Citizens is now inviting schools and partner organizations to apply to host a conference in the 2026–27 academic year. Hosting a conference is a unique opportunity to connect your community with a global network of student leaders while showcasing your school as a hub for innovation, collaboration, and student voice.
If your school is interested in partnering with Inspire Citizens to host a conference, they’d love to hear from you.
SubjectToClimate
SubjectToClimate is a free, teacher-designed platform with lessons, resources, and professional learning to help all K–12 educators integrate climate change into what they already teach.
We are happy to share their Earth Day 2026 Teacher Guide, featuring activity sheets for Earth Day, lessons and activities for Earth Week, and a calendar of classroom-ready resources for the full month of April. Designed for all grade levels and subjects, these resources offer multiple entry points into climate learning that fit different curricula, grade levels, and time constraints, and support environmental learning beyond a single day.
👉 Calendar
Ten Strands
We’re proud to support Ten Strands’ efforts to expand environmental literacy and climate education for students across California.
⏰ Sign-on deadline is March 20th.
Organizations and individuals can add their support for:
• Seeds to Solutions Implementation Funding – Supporting a budget request to help teachers and schools implement California’s solutions-focused, age-appropriate climate and environmental justice curriculum.
• Outdoor Learning Act (AB 2158) – Expanding access to safe, equitable outdoor learning opportunities and launching a three-year statewide pilot program.
• Seal of Climate Literacy (SB 1048) – Establishing a voluntary recognition for high school students who demonstrate climate knowledge, leadership, and engagement in community solutions.
Ages of Globalization’s Project
Ages of Globalization is a free, multidisciplinary initiative designed to empower students (ages 14+), educators, and lifelong learners to address today’s sustainable development challenges. It takes participants on an immersive journey through seven transformative ages of human history, examining how geography, technology, and institutions have shaped our interconnected world. Based on Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs's influential book, the initiative deepens learners’ understanding of global history, the forces driving large-scale change, and innovative solutions for a sustainable future.
👉 Register your participation in the course’s beta roll-out here
The Alliance for Sustainable Schools (TASS)
Is your school aligned with the principles expressed in the Charter? If so, consider joining The Alliance for Sustainable Schools (TASS) – a non-profit network of schools working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable future and catalyse systems change in schools.
Heads of School sign the Charter when their school joins TASS, as an expression of their commitment to prioritise sustainability. Take the next step and become a member school today.
👉Learn more and join the community here
The Week
Blue Demonstration
Blue Demonstration is a non-profit organisation based in Heidelberg (Germany) dedicated to sustainable environmental and climate art. The basis of all their projects is old, discarded shoes that can no longer be worn, and to which they give a new life in climate art.
This year, Blue Demonstration is conducting a big project called Blue 17 Circles Germany 2026. The initiative brings together schools from 17 of Germany’s largest cities, with each city represented by participating students. The number 17 draws direct attention to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. On April 22, 2026 (Earth Day), students in each city will install the shoes in a circular formation at a location recognizable for their city or for Germany as a whole.
Building on this foundation, Blue 17 Circles International will take place in 2027, following the same model with 17 capital cities across the globe, inspired by and modeled after the German initiative.