Picture taken at a UNESCO event as member of Germany’s National Round Table for the Implementation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-14 … I know what I am talking about. – Eric, YL Captain

Trust me when I speak of schools. And of you and schools.

Dear BOOSTER youth and citizens, you may feel insecure about working with schools, based on your own suboptimal experiences with schools. 

Let me assure you – much has changed – and you are equipped to make school more awesome, now. Trust our approach. It’s easy, cannot cause trouble for you and it cannot fail. Let me explain. 

THE KEY. At every school exist teachers with a lovely Heart like yours who’d love to see their students rock like today’s teen hero*ines and form Gryffindore student clubs. Usually the green one, the social one and the wild one, often a sports teacher. You may immediately remember these teachers at your school/s and that they were respected or even “everybody’s favorite teachers”.

This tells you that it’s people who tick like us. And that they’d like to see better learning culture in classrooms and beyond. This means you have a gift for them, that’s highly successful at thousands of North American schools and needed everywhere. For real! You don’t approach them as a no clue outsider, not as a rebel protestor, but as an ally that knows what matters, even as an angel

With this calm confidence approach “schools” aware that schools are PEOPLE – young people and grown-ups – students, teachers and parents – some idiot, many that wish school to be more awesome and some lovely like you. We approach the wishers and lovely ones.

We look to find those and inform them on our free hero*ine role model solution stories and our Boost Club flyer with project partners, exhibits, speakers. That’s all. That’s something they are highly likely to receive, look at, appreciate.

Then, if you like to go face 2 face, you can offer presentations, poster exhibits etc. Interested teachers and students will find this in our materials.

Simple. It may only take minutes.

It is likely, that you and your close and extended circle of friends and relations KNOWS 

• a good-willing teacher
• kind-hearted, fired up students
• caring parents

each of which can be THE ONE introducing this to their school

• to the one, two or three teachers that they already know
• to their peers and class

Hence, don’t just think about contacting a school secretariat or a teacher. You can

• seed this information much further
• without need to be “pro” or formal
• and outsource the mission to others who already have such connections to teachers or who actually are in schools, like kids and their parents.

Further, here is another potential big ally: 

Town Councillors  in charge of EDUCATION and of YOUTH

Good ones do exist. They dearly wish for more and better “youth change the world stuff” at schools and in public. You are an angel and ace partner to them.

THEY know the local education landscape, local principals, teachers, organizations, funders … because that’s the crowd they hang out with as part of their profession 🙂 … They can

• direct you to good folks and initiatives
• launch programs to disseminate information, presentations, poster exhibits
• unlock funds
• appear at your FUNdraising events to express their support + take photos
• seed them in news media. 

You’ve already seen photos and news reports of mayors and town councillors meeting with girl scouts, citizen volunteer groups etc. It’s mainstream. 

That’s how successful teen charity champs work. Good councillors love them as role models, mentors and coaches for youth and the citizenry and boost them. You are a role model, mentor and coach, too, even as a newbie!  

If the Councillors currently in office suck, check out the other political parties … and find their member in charge of YOUTH and EDUCATION. Also parties that do not rule have considerable reach and leverage to stakeholders.

Simply use our flyers, letters, or ask us for help to optimize them for your local setting.

WE ARE HERE TO HELP.

Schools are our entire young generation’s daily hangout

• for their 10+ forming years

and these youth have veritable superpowers that adults don’t have: 

• daily access to 100s of peers
• genuine passion, sense of silly
• free infrastructure
• free support
• good public status
• win-win benefits; makes school days awesome, collaborate with teachers, score respect and good grades, shape learning culture and excursions, learn ace skills, epic CVs, true friends, life of adventure
• TIME!
• no worries about making a living, partnerships, raising kids, political ideologies etc … which keep adults from being awesome

Also, school’s purpose actually is to enable Able Active Caring Citizens of libertarian, peaceful, sustainable societies, view your state’s Law of Education §1

and we help achieve this purpose. Íf an entire generation grows up with high impact youth leadership, they’ll be an awesome adult generation. Once they graduate they will never again have the TIME, COMMUNITY AND STATUS to develop changemaker skills at this depth and scope. The Future is sown at school!

Now, let’s look at potentials of BOOSTING that you want to unfold:  

• 100s of kind-hearted youth open and willing to learn how to create a good world, life and future
• 1+ per class willing to join a Changemaker Student Club make 20 to 100 at a school, an Army equipped with 100s of humanity’s finest actions, tools, methology and partners
• At least 3 teachers wish to enrich learning culture with purpose and student-centred projects; the green one, the social one, the wild one (often a sports teacher) would love to have a Gryffindore Student Club at their school; their Heart will rejoice every day; you can make them this gift!
• 100s of parents, proud when they see their kids rock stuff, and yearning that their kids get a chance for a GOOD FUTURE in this time that enormous stormclouds of fear, violence and poverty darken the sky over their generation; and many are willing to help in-kind with resources and relations for REALLY GOOD STUFF

Each is a MUST-DO reason to connect with schools to achieve Y/OUR aspirations for hero*ines and local youth. We make it easy for you to connect with Caring Teachers and Principals and work together.

• Easy. You give them flyers and links on our offer
• Optional. You give a presentation in class, involve fired up students in BOOSTING their favorite hero*ines
• Advanced. You become their best friend as certified YL Coach, follow up with video-meets, forming Changemaker Student Clubs, setting up LearnSpaces, team up for projects, connect them with allies and more.

We have 30 years of experience in good learning culture, have status with UNESCO, scored major global education awards, worked with partners on 6 continents through the 10 years of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD, are Competence Partner of RCE-Ruhr, Regional Centre of Expertise for ESD and SDGs, United Nations University and more.

You need zero experience in teaching or formal learning.

We do informal and non-formal learning like people passionate about birds, music, clowning or meditation – who give passionate presentations with practical real world examples like sports clubs and music schools are sports and music teachers’ outer school partners where fired up students can gather, evolve their skills, team up and perform for the upliftment of society.

Why have you come to this planet at this special time?

Welcome to the grand quest of our era. Welcome to your greatest adventure!

Embrace your Mission. # bemoreawesome and let us hear of your breakthroughs, breakdowns and epic wins! WE ARE HERE TO HELP.