UWC Costa Rica ofrece un programa pre-universitario (Diploma del Bachillerato Internacional) de dos años enfocado en el aprendizaje experiencial. Un factor distintivo de la experiencia UWC Costa Rica es que asegura la participación de una población de estudiantes intencionalmente diversa que...
YBC’s vision is “our students will change the world” and is aiming to be a creative meeting place for a lifelong learning in an ever changing world. The school practices entrepreneurial learning – one of few schools in Sweden doing this – which is also very rare in public schools. The aim is to have...
Ashoka Canada is thrilled to name Rose Avenue Public School and The Mabin School as the first Changemaker Schools in Canada. The Ashoka Changemaker Schools designation recognizes schools that do an outstanding job of cultivating empathy, teamwork, leadership and problem solving in kids. Changemaker...
Making Change Today : la nouvelle série d’articles de Forbes en collaboration avec Ashoka Making Change Today, est une série d’interviews de dirigeants et d’entrepreneurs produite par Ashoka et diffusée par Forbes. Ce projet collaboratif réalisé à l’échelle mondiale vise à identifier et déterminer...
The first racially integrated school in Washington, DC, Georgetown Day School (GDS) identifies itself as “a private school with a public mission.” To that end, GDS has developed a robust service-learning program that spans prekindergarten through twelfth grade. The youngest students learn one-to-one...
The key to cultivating empathy? Enable others to pay it forward, says Ashoka Fellow and founder of Time Banks, Edgar Cahn. Part 5 of our series on Empathy 101 (view the rest below)
The first six words of The Berkeley School's mission focus on what they do – ignite curious minds and awakengenerous hearts – and the last four remind them why: to engage a changing world. These ten words drive everything that happens at The Berkeley School. They crackle with energy (“ignite!”...
Social and emotional learning, student leadership, and social change are at the heart of Prospect Sierra School. The steps of listening and observing empathetically, defining a problem, coming up with ideas for solutions, building those solutions, and testing those solutions are engrained through...