Guiding Question:

• How might we empower students to organize an event to share, celebrate, inspire and BE changemakers in your region?

Key Takeaways:

• A behind-the-scenes look at hosting a student-led conference
• Making a conference more sustainable
• Developing a “Changemaker Mindset” to unlock the potential in our school communities
• Transitioning from advocacy to action

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Episode Summary

On this episode, after having the privilege of attending the Changemaker Conference at the American International School of Budapest in March 2025, I had the opportunity to reconnect with 3 student leaders from that school, Alex, Shuo, and Aranya, who each played a pivotal role in the organization and resounding success of this conference. Join us as we take a behind-the-scenes look at all of the components and work that goes on behind the scenes to host an impactful and inspirational event like this. Maybe this is the spark that you need to start an event like this in your region.

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Guiding Question:

• How might we empower students to organize an event to share, celebrate, and inspire younger students in our school community through service learning.

Key Takeaways:

• Peer to peer learning in the context of service learning
• Authentic engagement with service learning in elementary education co-facilitated by high school student leaders
• Planting the seeds with our youngest learners to develop the service learning mindset
• Sustainability of service learning initiatives through whole school events like Community Partners Week

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• Learn more about how Inspire Citizens co-designs customized student leadership and changemakers programs
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• Measuring the IMPACT of Service Learning projects and initiatives
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• You can book a discovery call with Inspire Citizens at this link
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Episode Summary

On this episode, I meet Omaira and Tul, members of ServiceCo and service learning leaders at NIST. Following up on our previous episode with Y6 students, in Part 2 Tul and Omaira share a behind-the-scenes look at Community Partners Week, the organization of this impactful event, and their role as service learning leaders designing and leading learning experiences with Y6 students. This was the 3rd annual Community Partners Week at NIST, and by all accounts, the best one yet. During Community Partners Week, students in the primary years program had opportunities to connect with community partners like Helping Heart (EY-Y1), a local nursery (EY-Y1), Student-led service groups Eco and Plastic-free NIST (Y2), Operation Smile (Y3), Student-led service group FemiNIST (Y4), and Student-led service group FashioNIST (Y5). Join me for a great conversation with these student leaders to get a deeper insight on the impact of CPW at their school and how peer to peer learning leads to a service mindset, the ongoing sustainability of service learning initiatives, and a culture of service across the whole school community.

Discover a transformative podcast on education and learning from a student perspective and student voice, exploring media, media literacy, and media production to inspire citizens in schools through a media lab focused on 21st-century learning, empathy to impact, Global citizenship, collaboration, systems thinking, service learning, PBL, CAS, MYP, PYP, DP, Service as Action, futures thinking, project-based learning, sustainability, well-being, harmony with nature, community engagement, experiential learning, and the role of teachers and teaching in fostering well-being and a better future.

Guiding Question:

• How might we take creative action towards a reimagined future?

Key Takeaways

• Different types of service and ways we can take action
• PYP Exhibition and how we might empower students to take age-appropriate, creative, sustainable actions
• How meaningful actions can start a “chain reaction” in our school communities as we work to develop as global citizens

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• Check out other PYPx stories from ARIS, CIS Beijing, and WAB
• Measuring the IMPACT of Service Learning projects and initiatives
• Access free resources for global citizenship education
• You can book a discovery call with Inspire Citizens at this link
• Share on social media using #EmpathytoImpact

Episode Summary

On this episode, I meet Charlotte, Saar, Stella, and Viviana (Vivi) to talk about Community Partners Week and their work leading up to the PYP exhibition at NIST. This was the 3rd annual Community Partners Week, and by all accounts, the best one yet. During Community Partners Week, students in the primary years program had opportunities to connect with community partners like Helping Heart (EY-Y1), a local nursery (EY-Y1), Student-led service groups Eco and Plastic-free NIST (Y2), Operation Smile (Y3), Student-led service group FemiNIST (Y4), and Student-led service group FashioNIST (Y5). Join me for a great conversation with these students from Y6 to learn what they were up to for CPW working with community partners and high school students from ServiceCo and don’t miss our next episode that will feature Omaira and Tul from ServiceCo sharing some behind the scenes information on this amazing peer-to-peer learning experience.

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Discover a transformative podcast on education and learning from a student perspective and student voice, exploring media, media literacy, and media production to inspire citizens in schools through a media lab focused on 21st-century learning, empathy to impact, Global citizenship, collaboration, systems thinking, service learning, PBL, CAS, MYP, PYP, DP, Service as Action, futures thinking, project-based learning, sustainability, well-being, harmony with nature, community engagement, experiential learning, and the role of teachers and teaching in fostering well-being and a better future.