Stories & Updates

Sept 2022 Newsletter - Back-to-School Newsletter: New resources, workshops, mentorship from Be the Change!

Hello,

After a productive and creative summer at Be the Change, we couldn't be more excited for the new school year!

Over the summer, we worked with six Program Assistant to update and augment our Student Leadership for Change library of learning resources. 

Teachers, here’s just a taste of the improvements within SLC: to better navigate the SLC library, check out our new walk-through video! To guide students in meaning learning on the UN SDGs, explore our SDG Unit, with updated powerpoints, lesson plans, and a student action tracker. And your students will love our re-branded Community Building Action Pack – perfect for students after several years of pandemic isolation. 

 

July 2022 Newsletter - End-of-School-Year Newsletter: Recapping our busiest year ever!

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With the support of our dedicated teachers, donors and community members, BTCEA had one of our most successful (and busy) school years ever. We educated and empowered over 15,000 youth to take action on the environment and climate change.  

April + May 2022 Newsletter - What an Earth Week!

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In this month's newsletter, we want to highlight an Earth Week Challenge we ran in April to encourage teachers to bring Climate and Eco-Social Education into the classroom while creating collective impact.

How did we do?

March 2022 Newsletter - 2020-21 Annual Report and REN Showcase Recap!

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We hope you are enjoying the start of spring! We want to share with you some highlights from our Reclaiming the Environmental Narrative Showcase last month, as well as the Be The Change Earth Alliance Annual Report for 2021.

February 2022 Newsletter - Showcasing BIPOC Youth Climate Stories

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Reclaiming the Environment Narrative: Showcase

Are you interested in learning more about climate issues, from the perspectives and experiences of BIPOC youth? Come for an engaging afternoon to hear from BIPOC youth on how climate change and climate justice has impacted their lives and community!

January 2022 Newsletter - Sharing Gratitude & Excitement for 2022!

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Happy New Year! We hope you’ve had a restful holiday season and a positive start to 2022. At Be the Change, we are energized and excited for the year ahead.

December 2021 Newsletter - Happy Holidays from Be The Change!

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Congratulations for (nearly) reaching the end of 2021! Thank you all for being such an incredible and supportive community. From all of us here at Be The Change Earth Alliance, we want to wish you a happy holiday break full of warmth and cheer.

With YOUR support, Be The Change engaged over 7,000 students and 3,000 community members in learning and action on climate, environmental and social justice issues this year. Below we highlight some of the NEW initiatives we launched in 2021! A core goal of our team is to foster hope and joy throughout all of our programming, so let's celebrate our achievements together!

But first, some thank-you’s are in order. To TEACHERS, we thank you for learning, collaborating and co-creating with us to bring meaningful climate education to students across BC. To our DONORS, we cannot thank you enough for your generosity in helping us raise over $25,000 so far this year! And to EVERYONE reading this newsletter, we value you and appreciate all the ways you support, participate in, and help grow the Be the Change community.

November 2021 Newsletter - Top 30 Under 30 Award + Completed Rain Garden!

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BTCEA Executive Director Recognized as Top 30 Sustainability Leader Under 30

We are thrilled to announce our Executive Director, George Radner, was recognized by Corporate Knights magazine as one of Canada’s Top 30 Sustainability Leaders Under 30! 

Message from George:

“I am humbled by this recognition, but my work has always been team-based, not individual. This award belongs to the team of dedicated, diverse staff at Be the Change who’ve empowered over 15,000 students and 1,100 teachers in the last two years through action-oriented workshops, learning resources and mentorship programs. ”

October 2021 Newsletter - Clean Shorelines and Provincial Pro-D’s!

Be the Change at Provincial Pro-D Day!

On Friday, October 22nd our team took great pleasure in presenting at three province-wide teacher Professional Development workshops and exhibiting at one other. What a day! As a result, 58 more educators have joined Be the Change and will now be able to access our Student Leadership for Change resources, which could reach hundreds more students year after year. 

In our sessions, participants collaborated to draw curriculum connections to climate change. This was a short pilot of a process we are designing into a full Pro-D model that will bring teachers together to explore these connections, workshop challenges, build relationships and contribute to a Climate Curriculum Map.

Expanding the Climate Curriculum Map to empower teachers and students across BC is just one goal of our Be the Change Action Network Initiative. We can hardly contain our excitement about this initiative! By bringing together teachers who share our vision for Climate Education for all students, we believe we are working towards transformative change.