Teach the Future is one of five organisations across the UK that will receive £100,000 to boost green measures and reduce carbon emissions in schools.
Meeting to talk with our political candidates as part of Teach the Future's "Is Climate Education on their Cards?" general election campaign is our chance to open up a nuanced and effective political discussion of the issues that matter to us.
Young people are expected to find solutions, work in green industries and save our planet, yet we have not been adequately equipped to do so.
Protesting is a vital part of democracy. Society would look extremely different today if you were to remove protests from our history - just think women’s rights as one example! Protesting is a direct way that members of the public can show frustration or discontent with politics or issues in global society.
Find out more about how the national primary curriculum can be reformed for sustainability.
The elections of today have higher stakes than ever before. We need politicians to be taking action if we are to prevent climate catastrophe, and our votes and political engagement are an essential part of how we show politicians what we care about.
We joined other students driving SOS-UK's projects and campaigns, to create the first ever youth-led edition of the NAEE journal.
In April 2022, we published our reaction to the final draft of the Department for Education’s Climate and Sustainability Strategy. When we first met ministers pre-COP26, there was no section about climate education. Thanks to Teach the Future’s tireless campaigning and efforts, it was put into the strategy and was made the first theme on the strategy. It was a strategy that, yes, we had a significant amount of input into but at the end of the day, it was the government’s choice as to what to put into the strategy and what not to. There were some positives in there but the majority of our reaction wasn’t positive at all due to the strategy’s failure to meet the necessary standards. It was indeed very concerning to see a strategy published that did not meet what the Secretary of State at the time, Nadhim Zahawi, promised.
After collapsing school buildings hit the headlines in September last year, the government's pledges to solve the RAAC crisis are suffering the same fate as their promises to reduce global warming. Yet, retrofitting to remove RAAC could help us also take action to mitigate the climate crisis
We asked our current National Organisers to share their reflections on working for Teach the Future.
Questions and concerns that Teach the Future sometimes receive and some short, intelligent points to respond with to show the possibilities and benefits of integrating climate into education.
Labour has adopted our Climate Education Bill in their draft policy programme ahead of the general election, read about what this means for our campaign.