Build Capacity In Your School
Orenda Learning offers a range of services to support education providers to build their capacity to deliver incredible service programs.
Target 4.7.1 of SDG 4; Quality Education, states that by 2030, we must ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development. Indicator 4.7.1 covers the extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment.
We are aware it is likely that education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship is an important part of your school vision and mission and we want to support you to increase your capacity to deliver this important area of education to your stakeholders, including your students, parents and community.
Our Consulting Services
Undertake an initial consultation and make an assessment of your needs.
Analyse your current programs including service trips.
Analyse your current teaching and learning materials.
Write reports on our findings and make recommendations.
Coach your team about best practice ways to teach service and support students to take action.
Model the teaching of service to support understanding.
Mentor your educators.
Coaching regarding the integration and embedding of Be The Change.
Assist you to build meaningful relationships with charitable organisations and your community.
Help guide parent education and involvement in service programs.
Support you to develop curriculum and also teach it through the Be The Change program.
Assist you to undertake high level design related to service.
Support you to make links between service and other curriculum areas, as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) outcomes.
Guide you around logistical and administrative processes connected to different types of service.
Support you to design best practice service trips for your learners.
Help you with short and long term processes and strategy related to service.
Advice regarding integration and embedding of the Be The Change program.
Delivery of professional development sessions to support best practice service programs.
Delivery of professional development sessions to support the implementation of the Be The Change program.
Be The Change
In addition to advisory and coaching we offer a short Professional Development Sessions to support you to embed Be The Change, and ensure your team is ready to facilitate the program. These are 1 hour sessions which are delivered virtually and you will be provided with the slides and video after the session.
Resources and Tools
Watch Our Service Program Professional Development
How to Level Up Your Service Program
In the video you will learn
- Why delivering effective, inspiring service programs is crucial for your students, school and our planet.
- 7 major challenges that we see in schools around the world regarding service program delivery.
- 3 keys to help develop your school service program, including practical ideas to promote real change.
- How Orenda Learning helps you create and deliver an effective, inspiring, innovative, world-class service program that builds student agency.
Access Our Webinars
Watch Our Service Program Professional Development
A Toolkit to Elevate Students' Service Initiatives & Projects
Join the Orenda Learning team for an engaging webinar in which we will share content from Be The Change, our program in service, which combines theoretical learning with real life community action. We’ll equip you with a toolkit to elevate students' service initiatives and projects, which you can quickly implement with your students.
ESG for Schools: Which Way Forward?
Join an interactive panel discussion of educators, administrators and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) experts who will share the value of adopting an ESG code at your school (pre-tertiary). They will bring practical examples from their various areas of expertise, as well as ideas and guidelines for implementation.
Building a Sustainable Culture of Service in your School & Community (with practical ideas!)
Join the Orenda Learning team who will share tips and practical ideas to support you to build a sustainable culture of service in your school and community. They will share their perspectives on why this is important, bring examples from their various areas of experience, as well as offer tools for implementation.
Download Our Activity Template Pack
Download Your Free Service Program Templates PDF
These free service program templates offer you:
- Ideas and inspiration for student service experiences.
- Clear frameworks to underpin a cycle of service or the IB DP CAS stages of: Investigation, Preparation, Action, Reflection, Demonstration.
- Guidance and a focus for student service group work.
- Ready made material that saves you precious time.
- A window into the content of Be The Change, an program in service for high school students.
Be The Change for Teachers
Be The Change for Teachers is a 90 minute mini course we developed in partnership with Go1.
The aim of this course is to help teachers learn how to ensure that students engage in service in a fully informed manner, so their service is purposeful and mutually beneficial for all. Be The Change for Teachers takes some of the core themes from Be The Change for High Schools, delivering them in a quick and easy to access way.
Be The Change for Teachers is available to schools on request. Please reach out to find out more about how we can get this program to your team.
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ORENDA
(Oren-da) An innate and sometimes mystical power present in all humans which, once evoked, enables them to consciously affect change in their lives and the world around them. (n.) Iroquois origins.