Lots of stories about meaningful and authentic community engagement and storytelling for building strong school communities

Core texts to use with students in connection with authentic community engagement and community building.

Tap into the power of community engagement and storytelling for deep engagement, learning, and positive, purposeful impacts (printables, frameworks & more)

A resource for those who want to explore community engagement and storytelling through reading, listening and viewing.

LeeAnne Lavender’s examples of PreK-12 examples of Community Engagement, Active Global Citizenship & Service Learning.

This is a reflective framework for creative and critical thinking. It guides you to notice signals, question assumptions, invert your logic, imagine scenarios, ask deeper questions, and make meaning through exploration and sharing. Overall, it encourages curiosity, perspective-taking, and collaboration to generate new insights and directions.

Think is a link to a series of student digital advocacy videos.  These student videos serve as great examples for possible curricular projects, youth media and advocacy projects for student leadership groups, inspiration for exhibition and other community projects, and showcase how to use media for positive change. 

This is a link to Inspire Citizens' Podcast channel where Scott Jamieson interviews student changemakers who tell stories of how they used their learning to make a difference in their communities.  This resource will inspire project ideas for educators and can be used to show other youth changemakers what is possible.

This resource is a collection of interviews with and learning artifacts from school leaders and educators around the globe who have effectively implemented teaching and learning experiences around belonging, culture and identity, environmental sustainability, global citizenship, entrepreneurship, service learning, student leadership, and creating compassionate changemakers. This resource will help to inspire ideas for your classroom to shape schoolwide scope and sequence.

This indicator set and self-assessment is great for school leaders to set goals around whole school strategic plans for global citizenship, and over time, track their growth and progress.  More than just a self-assessment, this tool is a great way to prompt discussions and identify next steps in your strategic journey of developing global citizens. 

This resource helps educators and student groups to live out meaningful and impactful service learning and community engagement.  In this toolkit is a set of helpful tools, hyperlinks, suggested activities, and a flow of lessons that can be used in advisory classes, after school activities, student service clubs, etc.

Inspire Citizens' Changemaker Action Plan is a step by step, ready to use resource that helps students to design their own changemaker projects. gins with an idea.

Inspire Citizens' Empathy to Impact Unit Design Toolkit can be used by educators to design learning experiences centered on environmental stewardship, service learning, community engagement, belonging, intercultural learning, and global citizenship.

Inspire Citizens' Community Engagement Resource is a step by step educator guide that helps educators to design meaningful, reciprocal, and long-term community engagement projects linked to curriculum.  This is especially helpful for IB MYP (middle years program) educators working to make the shift from performative service as action to meaningful community engagement.