Our vision for Education
CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS IN BELGIUM TRANSFORMING THE EXPERIENCE OF EDUCATION We believe that anyone can become a changemaker. We want every young person to have the capacity and the drive to make change for the better, be it within their family, in their community, their country or across the whole world...
Discover the new Ashoka Strategy for Changemaking
Ashoka ’ s business is about Changemaking for the good of all (what we call “Framework change”) which is achieved by moving from an old paradigm to a new and better one. Ashoka is uniquely positioned to identify the new paradigms needed, by sourcing them from its community of social entrepreneurs...
TEDxYouth @PaseodelPrado: For Young People. By Young People.
Never say never. Recently, two young changemakers from Spain took initiative and launched Spain’s first-ever TEDx for youth event, organized by youth. We caught up with 17 year-old organizer Sara Santos before she and her teammate, Kike [KI-KAY], successfully launched the TEDx event with the help of...
Making Imagination an Academic Goal
Ashoka Fellow Aleta Margolis , founder and executive director of the Center for Inspired Teaching, discusses rethinking the role teachers and schools to bring out something exceptional in every child. In this In this TEDx Talk, Margolis begins by asking: What price do we pay when we fail to set-up...
How can we develop family guidelines around conflict for children?
After some happy outdoor play, I heard my son E run straight up to his bedroom and slam the door. As I knocked and entered his room, his face was red and wet with tears. “What happened?” I asked. “Jonathan (E’s cousin) wouldn’t listen to me,” E sputtered between sobs. “I was mad and he put his...
Why reframing conflict as creativity is an essential skill for changemakers
We have a laptop that sits on our kitchen table for our children to use. When the unit first became available, the kids would take turns. Slowly, my youngest son began to use the computer more than the others, loading preferences and passwords and special applications. A subtle but steady shift...
Breaking Down the Barriers to Education for Women
In spite of their demographic diversity, followers of Islam are often lumped into a single category that denigrates the religion and stereotypes more than a billion people. We have seen time and again that social entrepreneurs see more than the symptoms of the problem and are driven to address the...
Changemakers: Educating with Purpose
Buy This Book Now ! What if our schools prioritized empathy as much as they did reading and math? What if young people were given regular opportunities to apply empathy as changemakers in their schools and communities? Our world is changing fast. New rules, new openness and new connectivity require...
