ASHOKA CHANGEMAKER SCHOOLS
From 2010 to 2016, Ashoka elected primary and secondary schools worldwide that had a track record of enabling their students to become changemakers—young people who have the skills and confidence to change the world for the good of all.
Even as we no longer elect Changemaker Schools at the current time, the network of Changemaker Schools continues to serve as a model for what changemaking education could look like in our world.
To help everyone become a changemaker – a person that sees themselves as capable of creating large-scale, positive change in response to our world's most pressing and complex issues – we saw the need to make big changes in the way young people experience education.
Already more than 1,300 Ashoka Fellows (about 1/3 of our network) globally are working with young people, and have supported more than 375,000 young people to practice changemaking in 50 countries.
In response to these findings, we adapted our methodology for selecting the world’s leading social entrepreneurs to identify and select a global network of Changemaker Schools between 2010 and 2016. Each of the schools in Ashoka's Changemaker Schools network teaches students essential changemaking skills that are vital in creating solutions to our most complex problems in the modern world: empathy, creativity, leadership, and teamwork.