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Green Women: Leadership in Action.

Teaching for a Better Future. The seventh and final session of our online conference on 6 June will be: Green Women – Weaving Leadership for Environmental Education with Purpose.

Stephany Carrasco Sardon will present the experience of a digital magazine dedicated to making visible socio-environmental projects led by women in Latin America. Through inspiring stories, conscious digital design and collaborative methodologies, a community that promotes environmental education from the territory and action has been woven. This presentation will show how to strengthen women’s leadership networks, communicate with purpose and use accessible tools to educate and transform. An invitation to rethink environmental education as a living, regenerative and deeply human process.

Stephany is an environmental engineer with a master’s degree in Renewable Energy (IMF – Madrid) and UX/UI designer with a focus on digital sustainability. Founder of Green Women, an organisation and magazine dedicated to environmental conservation and women’s empowerment in Latin America. She has spoken at international conferences in countries such as Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina. She has diplomas in sustainability, environmental education and wildlife monitoring (Universidad de Antioquia and Politécnica de Colombia), as well as training in the rights of nature with Earth Law Center and the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de México.

Join us at Teaching for a Better Future on 6 June 2025.

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More Green, Less Screen!

More Green, Less Screen
More Green, Less Screen!

Join us on 6 June for Teaching For A Better Future – a day of inspiration, innovation and action for educators who believe language teaching can drive meaningful change.

Our sixth session with Lucy Crichton is More Green, Less Screen.

Designing projects for YLs that involve environmental themes is an urgent necessity. But how can we truly involve our students and deepen their learning? Join me as I share 3 ways to encourage students to take care of the planet through planting, the use of natural loose parts, and recipes for a Mud Kitchen.

Lucy Crichton is an ELT educator, young learner specialist, and materials writer based in Brazil. She has given lectures in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. She runs her own school, The Secret Garden, which attends children and teenagers. Her teaching
philosophy comes from her deep love and respect for children.

View the full programme here: https://green-action-elt.uk/events/

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Think Green, Teach Smart

Marcella Villan
Think Green, Teach Smart

Join us on 6 June for Teaching For A Better Future – a day of inspiration, innovation and action for educators who believe language teaching can drive meaningful change.

Our fifth session with Marcella Villan is Think Green, Teach Smart: Systems Thinking in English Language Teaching.

Our world faces complex environmental challenges and English Language Teaching (ELT) must evolve to foster sustainability and make an impact on this. “Think Green, Teach Smart: Systems Thinking in ELT” explores how educators can integrate systems thinking into their teaching to make students understand the bigger picture, promoting ecological awareness and global responsibility. Participants will gain practical strategies for embedding sustainability into language learning to make students see connections between language, society, and the environment, making ELT more holistic, impactful, and future-focused this way. Let’s remember that small shifts in teaching can lead to meaningful global change!

Marcela Villan is an experienced teacher of English from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She specialises in Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development. She has presented widely on these issues at international conferences and events. With over 30 years experience, she has also served as coordinator, head of studies, examiner and teacher trainer.

View the full programme here: https://green-action-elt.uk/events/

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Planet-Based Classroom Hacks

Join us on 6 June for Teaching For A Better Future – a day of inspiration, innovation and action for educators who believe language teaching can drive meaningful change.

Our fourth session with Harry Waters is Planet-Based Classroom Hacks

How do you feel about the climate crisis? How do your students feel? Instead of the usual “How are you?”, why not ask something a little more specific? In this practical session, we’ll explore super simple ways to bring sustainability into everyday lessons without extra work. From meaningful questions to quick classroom hacks, you’ll leave with ready-to-use ideas that foster environmental awareness and build global citizenship. Whether it’s a five-minute warm-up or a subtle language tweak, these small changes can make a big impact.

Harry, a multi-award-winning teacher trainer, climate activist, and TEDx speaker, founded Renewable English to merge language learning with environmental consciousness. He’s the author of “Activities for a Greener Mindset”. Passionate about sustainability, he weaves eco-friendly practices into education, from second-hand shirts to impactful teaching

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Speaking, Listening and Sustainability

Join us on 6 June for Teaching For A Better Future – a day of inspiration, innovation and action for educators who believe language teaching can drive meaningful change.

Our third session with Hannah Tucker-Bloom is Speaking, Listening and Sustainability: an Integrated Curriculum for English learners

How can we ensure that our curriculum recognises key world issues while remaining true to EFL roots and being sensitive to the communities we work with? This interactive workshop will promote discussion and group interaction by exploring some aspects of our 12-week Speaking & Listening course that uses 1-2 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals each week as a theme. We will explore how students of different language levels can work on different aspects of the same goal as well as encourage ongoing discussion and action beyond the classroom.

Group Academic Manager (Pathways) at BSC Education, Hannah manages academic programmes including the International Foundation Year. She is involved with developing curriculum products, including incorporating the UN SDGs into Speaking and Listening and supporting the development of BSC’s innovative English Skills for AI course.

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Write for the Planet

Join us on 6 June for Teaching For A Better Future – a day of inspiration, innovation and action for educators who believe language teaching can drive meaningful change.

Our second session with Marla Lise and George M Jacobs is Write for the Planet.

Get tips on expressing your environmental cause through writing in this session. Facilitators Dr George Jacobs and Marla Lise will lead participants to explore various pressing environmental issues, and examine how different writing mediums and styles can be adopted or leveraged to push for, show concern or gratitude in the course of your work as a champion for the environment.

Born in Singapore and raised globally, Marla Lise is a hopeless romantic who dreams of a better world. Passionate about stories and environmental education, she runs The English Curve and The Eco Chapter, inspiring systemic change through eco-literary activism while
teaching English and volunteering in conservation. George M Jacobs is an educator and activist in Singapore. He promotes plant-based diets, cooperative learning, environmental education, ecolinguistics, and student-centered learning. He is co-author of the free online book Cooperative Learning and the SDGS, from Peachey Publications.

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