Schools. The Ultimate Makerspaces

Each #community is full of members with a varied skill-set. The issue is that these members may rarely meet and interact.

Various barriers prevent this from happening. Our busy lives, lack of a venue or facilitator organising it. By their very nature, #schools partially, if not mostly, overcome these barriers. Pupils are expected to come to school. They too have unique skills and interests that are prime for utilising. They come to school to learn, but as already outlined, why do they?

They learn for more than merely attaining particular standardised assessment scores, no? Make Change combines the learning that national curricula state that schools must teach with the purpose of making our communities even better.

However, the school community is more extensive than just its #learners and its #educators. Parents are a fundamental part of the school community. How often are parents’ skill sets utilised to aid learning and community progression?

The school is one establishment in the fabric of a community. There are many others that include places of worship, businesses, and services in addition to local governance. Again, how often do these establishments come together to make change?

Moreso, how often do schools include themselves with these establishments that may already work together to make change?

Make Change aims to make schools the fulcrum of community #innovation, where people come #together to create solutions to problems being suffered; to make their communities even more ethical and sustainable.

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