In fulfilling our Vision and empowering our students to create a better world, we need to teach them how to do it by helping them develop the skills, competencies, and self-confidence required to be catalysts for change and make a meaningful impact. To support our commitment to global citizenship, service, and sustainability, ISKL is partnering with Inspire Citizens, an educational organization that helps leading schools around the world actively engage in positively contributing to the world via the classroom, local communities, and extending positive influence beyond.
Aaron Moniz Co-founder and Director of Inspire Citizens joined us in November 2023 to conduct workshops for our employees and parents to further embed service and sustainability into our curriculum and community. This work builds on what is already happening in the classroom and through our student clubs, Red Hat initiatives, Malaysia Week, and Global Action Program. Intentionally incorporating real-world issues into the classroom and cocurricular activities increase knowledge retention and student engagement. Crucially, this collaboration fosters students’ comprehension of the significance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It enhances awareness of the challenges confronting the planet and underscores how each of us can exert a positive influence.
In bringing our community along with us on this journey, Aaron led a VOX ISKL workshop on how we move beyond empathy to designing and implementing projects with positive impact and the role parents can play in helping their child/ren contribute to a more sustainable future. Whether it is a simple everyday task such as showing how to sew on a button or mending a tear through to committing our skills, passion, and competencies to a cause we are interested in – our actions collectively create a school community that becomes a center for impact. During the workshop, Aaron got the audience to design their own ethical impact project and experience for themselves how our students learn about global citizenship, service, and sustainability. Click on the link below to find out more.
About VOX ISKL
VOX ISKL was created as a thought leadership platform for external guest speakers to share their perspectives and effect change by igniting learning, reflection, and conversations about important topics. Sessions are open to ISKL’s internal community as well as the wider community.
VOX ISKL was a finalist in the 2023 International School Awards in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice category and short-listed in Talk Education’s 2023 Innovation in Education Awards.
Missed a VOX ISKL? Visit ISKL’s YouTube and Spotify channels to check out previous sessions:
- Communication and Conflict: Approaches to Build and Repair Relationships Learning
- Belonging & Inclusion: Inspiring Learners to Shape their Path as Global Citizens
- Approaches to Building Student Social and Emotional Learning for Academic Success, Balance, and Community
- CommUNITY @ISKL panel discussion
- Growing a School Community for Identity, Agency, and Healing
- Identity-Centered Learning
- The Art of Courageous Conversations
- Living by Our Values: A Compass for Success and Wholeness
Join us on our learning journey and subscribe to our ISKL’s events list at www.iskl.edu.my/community/events/
