SCHOOL

FIRST OF ALL!!!!! install a

0.) POSITIVE NEWS BOARD

Positive News Boards make PNYV available to the entire school community, at a glance, every day, at minimal cost and time. It only requires two square meters of wall space, a little printer ink, and just 15 minutes every two weeks. 

In educational terms, we call this an ISLE: an Informal Sustainability Learning Environment:

Students will have daily access to inspiring portraits, solution-oriented thinking, good practice projects, pacemaking organisations, youth communities and useful tools for meaningful participation.

Moreover, PNYV's Global Edition displayed on a Positive News Board provides an excellent backdrop for posting local content: reports on positive projects and activities, innovation and initiatives in the local community and home region as well as information on local organisations, youth projects and opportunities for positive engagement and volunteering.The local dimension is put in global context, which inspires knowledge transfer, communication and networking with partners worldwide. 

GO TO our special page on Positive News Boards

1.) YOUTH GROUPS IN SCHOOL

You can start a Youth Group in your school to support introduction of innovation in your school. You can form it informally with friends, or make it a formal work group. Think of a creative, conscientious teacher who could support you in this. PNYV! has been created as an instrument supplying you with a wide range of tools. Schools don't have it easy to offer extra and special learning opportunities besides conventional teaching. You can make a great gift to your school by setting up a Positive News Board - it helps making self-guided sustainability learning available to students and staff. You can start very special projects, you can even introduce outstanding, award-winning learning programs. And why not start a media work group that launches and hosts a Local Edition, in online, print, radio or tv format? You have all the tools, support and content available! Read on below and contact us for support.  

GO TO our special page on Forming Youth Groups and Running Youth-led Activities

2.) POSITIVE NEWS LESSON PLAN

PNYV!'s Print Editions are a good stimulus for analytic discussion of the conventional media landscape. PNYV!'s example helps at analysing the media's role in society, and at the role of information and knowledge transfer in achieving humankind's priorities - global peace, justice, ecological, societal and cultural integrity – in other words: achieving a global, peaceful, just and sustainable civilisation.

Researching and/or creating a Local Edition is a fabulous class activity in media education. It can be done in the classroom, but can also involve researching and visiting local positive actors, documenting projects and making interviews. A playful way of gathering materials that is also perfectly suited for children is the 'Treasure Mapping Adventure'.

GO TO our special page on the Positive News Lesson Plan

3.) TREASURE MAPPING ADVENTURE

The Treasure Mapping Adventure is a great class activity for playfully exploring, getting to know and visualising the many positive actors and 'treasures' in one's local community. Treasures include everything that enriches life in one's home city from the perspective of sustainability. Such as organic farms, environmental youth clubs, recycling projects by kindergardens, businesses using solar power, beautiful river banks, nice public places, artist and culture centres, adventure playgrounds, the city's environmental office, a research centre on global peace and stability and so on.

Students not only learn about the pacemaking positive actors in their region but effectively raise public awareness and amplify networking and collaboration between organisations and citizens!  

GO TO our special page on Treasure Mapping for more information and for a lot of impressions from successful treasure mapping expeditions!

4.) PNYV! LOCAL EDITIONS

Creating a PNYV! Local Edition is an outstanding class and group activity. Young people research and meet  the most important people in their community - those committed to making the world a better place. This can include participation in important events and interviewing prominent changemakers! The students' work product has societal relevance by amplifying knowledge transfer, inspiration, collaboration between citizens and organisations. The Local Edition can be shared and used to invite other schools of the region for collaboration! The PNYV! server offers free hosting in professional format as part of the global network. Online Editions are a step towards launching a Radio or TV programme. 

GO TO our special page on Local Editions!

5.) PNYV! RADIO & TV PROGRAMS

Young people can launch a PNYV! Radio or TV program in playful, informal yet avantgarde format. PNYV!'s growing archives offer a lot of text, audio and video resources. Just like young journalists working on Local Editions, the team members of a PNYV! Radio and TV Program can gain access to exciting events, and significantly contribute to positive change by creating a new and important public media sphere.

GO TO our special page on Radio & TV Programs!

6.) EARTH DAY CELEBRATIONS & POSITIVE PEOPLE PARTIES

EARTH DAY is a day of global balance celebrated at the United Nations and in capital cities worldwide. Peace Bells are rung around the world, when the sun rises for the first day of spring, which is an omnicultural day of celebration. Make Earth Day an anchor point of sustainability learning by joining with the local positive actors for a peaceful celebration of global unity, observing the planet's beauty and the fragility of the life-systems supporting our common, one and only space ship - Planet Earth.

GO TO our special page on EARTH DAY Celebration & UN Days Celebration.

A COLOURFUL CALENDAR with all the UN DAYS OF THE YEAR - Women’s Day, Indigenous People Day, Peace Day, Water Day, etc. - is a great asset to your school forum! 

It will nurture global awareness and understanding of global issues. Often, there are international events, online transmissions and educational activities. Setting up the Calendar will tune you to the global rhythm of positive action and stimulate projects and participation in international celebrations and activities. 

You can build it yourself as a class project. Or take the one that we are developing for download.  

POSITIVE PEOPLE PARTIES are a great way of building community, making friends, learning meaningful things and having fun! We coined this term for Positive Nett-Works activities. We called them different, of course, like Earth Day Celebration, Earth Dance, Treasure Mapping Meet, or Water-Sun-Life Festival. With a small subtitle: Positive People Party J What is a positive people party? Let’s look at our Treasure Mapping Expedition. Groups running positive projects come together for submitting their “Treasures” and adding themselves to the map. This triggers very nice dialogue and networking, especially when you organize it with some music and snacks. Whenever you bring engaged people together, you actually have a Positive People Party. We need more of that, and add fun to the serious commitment!

7.) INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL PEACE GARDEN & HOLISTIC GSE CURRICULA

The ISPG program is the world-leading curriculum for holistic Peace & Global Sustainability Education. It has originated in Canada and already reached more than 3.000 schools in dozens of countries worldwide. Founding President Julia Morton-Marr has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as member of the 1000 Women for Peace initiative.

GO TO our special page on LearnScapes and on International School Peace Gardens.