Educator Resources
Applications are now closed. Congratulations to everyone that is taking action to create a better school, community, and world, we're looking forward to seeing all of your amazing ideas and initiatives! If you're curious about the ideas and initiatives that were submitted, check out the buttons in the upper right corner. We'll be announcing winners right here in March but look out for posts and emails from us in the meantime.
Being a Non-Controlling Adult Ally:
Check out this video for tips on maintaining an effective role as a non-controlling adult ally, making space for young people to lead and believing in their resilience and the importance of learning along the way.
Get your students started:
- Quick-Start Activity: Check out this 1-hour activity to support your students to identify what problem they’re passionate about and to start thinking about what they want to do to solve the problem! This activity is a good starting point to help your students think about what issues exist and which ones they feel strongly about so they can begin to think about how they want to take action.
- Introduction to Changemaking: Use this resource to learn more about changemaking generally and how you can incorporate it into your teaching or program as a regular practice.
- Want to make sure the rest of the students in your school get a chance for $5,000 and support to create change that really excites them? Post these flyers and get people talking! K-7 Flyer 8-12 Flyer
Past the starting line and looking for even more to do with your students? Find more below!
Additional Time for Change Resources:
- Five Days of Changemaking: This 5 Days of Changemaking guide is designed to help you prepare students to take action around issues they identify in their communities. It is a good starting point in supporting your students to apply to the Time for Change Youth Challenge
- Conscious Empathy Time Saver
- Teamwork Time Saver
- Leadership Time Saver
- Changemaking Action Time Saver
Inspiring Young Changemakers – Stories featuring real youth from communities nationwide:
- Guide to Inspiring Young Changemakers: This guide will help you create an environment where your students believe they can be changemakers, see themselves as powerful, and identify ways they can make a difference in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
- Inspiring Young Changemakers Video Series: Changemakers from around the country share how they built sustainable solutions to problems in their communities. We hope these inspiring stories will encourage you and your students along your own changemaking journeys.
Have questions not answered on the FAQ or Resource pages? You have options!
- Email us at [email protected]
- First Book educators can text CHANGE to 89304 for updates about the Time for Change Youth Challenge and additional changemaking resources.
- Youth participants (13 and older) can text CHANGEMAKER to (571)622-1066 for application reminders and support. They can also text or send a voice note to that same number if they have a question or want some advice!
- To receive updates on the Challenge or to get more information about becoming a First Book member, sign up here.