Educator Resources
Start Here:
- 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
- Application Guide: Want to see some example application answers and get tips on what makes a good response? Check out this handy guide.
- Introduction to Changemaking: Use this Introduction to Changemaking to learn more about changemaking generally and how you can incorporate it into your teaching or program as a regular practice.
Time Savers with activities to foster the four key changemaker abilities:
- 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.
Flyers for printing and posting
You can print out these flyers to post around your school and let more students know about Time for Change Challenge:
For books that feature changemakers in action or that model changemaking skills, and to learn more about the Time for Change initiative, visit:
Time for Change: Dream. Act. Change Our World. (fbmarketplace.org)
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.
- For youth participants (13 and older), text CHANGEMAKER to (571)622-1066 for application reminders and support.
- Sign up for our newsletter for updates about the Time for Change Youth Challenge and other opportunities.