The document summarizes WE Schools, a program that empowers students through experiential service learning. It discusses how WE Schools started in a classroom over 20 years ago and has since grown to involve millions of students and thousands of schools worldwide. The program provides resources and campaigns to help students take action on issues they care about through their school. It aims to improve academic engagement, citizenship, and workplace skills while also creating positive impacts in local and global communities.

2. Imagine a world where you felt empowered and
capable to positively impact issues you are
passionate about.
Imagine a program that galvanizes students to
commit to active citizenship while improving
academic engagement for university and
workplace readiness.
Imagine becoming a WE School. WE Schools
empowers students through experiential service
learning, making positive impacts in local
communities and around the world.
WE makes doing good doable.

3. The Story of WE

4. The story of WE started in a classroom.
At 12 years old, Craig Kielburger told his class about Iqbal
Masih, a child laborer who escaped slavery but was murdered
after raising his voice.
Craig reached out to his classmates and immediately found
twelve 12-year olds, who rallied to join his cause and give back
in a meaningful way to local and international communities.
When Craig started most charities treated children and youth
as “problems to be solved”, rather than the “problem-solvers”.
Together, they started the WE movement to empower students
to impact their communities and the world.
Today WE are millions of students and thousands of
schools creating an ocean of good to change the world.
Empowering students for
more than twenty years

5. Our mission
WE makes doing good, doable. WE is a movement that
brings students together and gives them the tools to change
the world through service learning.
We empower change with resources that create sustainable
impact. We do this domestically through WE Schools,
internationally through WE Villages and with our social
enterprise, ME to WE that has both local and global impacts.
Today we are millions of passionate students, women
and men working together we can shift the world from
“me” to “we”.

6. We transform education through
experiential service learning
16,000+
K-12 schools and groups engaged across North America
and the UK
WE Schools is free program helping students at home to do
good in their local and global communities. It provides
educational resources and service campaigns through extra-
curricular, co-curricular and core curricular programs that
develop the life skills for success.
WE Schools reach
► Increased academic achievement
WE Schools outcomes
Our groundbreaking AP® with WE Service program combines
the academic rigor of AP® courses in the United States with
our civic engagement and service learning resources for
educators and students.
► Improved university and workplace readiness
► Commitments to active citizenship

7. WE Schools
Empowering the next generation of change-makers

8. WE Schools is free and accessible to all students from
kindergarten to grade 12, offering a menu of resources
that can be customized to enhance already existing
curriculum. With cause inclusive programming, WE
Schools supports any issue students are passionate to
positively impact, rewarding a year of change making with
the opportunity to attend WE Day.

9. The why of WE Schools
 Free for all schools, school groups or youth
organizations
 Tied to learning, supporting current curriculum
 Includes programming for all students, from
kindergarten to grade 12
 Fully customizable with a menu of resources that
can support current curriculum or programming
 Cause-inclusive, WE Schools programming
supports any cause youth are passionate about
locally and globally
 Provides an opportunity to celebrate and connect
young change-makers through WE Day
WE Schools is:

10. How programming is integrated into the classroom
Core curricular Co-curricular Extra-curricular
WE offer customizable core-
curricular programming through
AP with WE Service -
embedding service directly into
course disciplines.
WE Schools curricular
resources can be used to
support classroom teaching by
employing issue exploration
and skill development,
customized to complement
current classroom work.
WE Schools resources can
serve as programming for after
school extra-curricular clubs,
tailor made to strengthen
academic achievement outside
the classroom.

11. 21st century learning with impact
Impacts
Since 2007, WE Schools campaigns have
made real, tangible impacts in our local
and global communities:
Student outcomes
WE Schools service learning programming has
positive impacts on students:
WE Schools is a service learning program that provides educators and students with curriculum, educational
resources and a full calendar of action campaign ideas that can be implemented based on needs and timing.
Through WE Schools, students gain an understanding of the root causes of pressing issues like hunger, poverty
and lack of education, and explore what they can do to help. As a cause inclusive program, WE Schools
empowers students to find their passion and create the positive change they want to see in the world.
Source: Mission Measurement Youth Social Impact Study (2015)
With WE Schools programming, students build capacity while impacting their communities:
A fully customizable program that enhances the current curriculum:

12. Turn-key service learning programming
Service learning does involve performing service, but it is rooted in the classroom, facilitated by a teacher, and based
on a structured academic foundation. Students who participate in WE Schools service learning programming apply
their academic learning to real-life situations by being active in meaningful, community-based service while being led
in reflection by their teachers. They work on problems that make academic learning relevant while enhancing their
leadership, social skills, analytical ability and civic responsibility.
Effective service learning is facilitated by educators who connect community service projects to curriculum content,
while welcoming student direction and reflection throughout the process. WE Schools facilitates this by providing
accessible, cause inclusive turn-key programming to initiate or enhance current service learning curriculum.
► Increased academic engagement and learning outcomes, including positive feelings towards school
► Improved college and workplace readiness by building practical, leadership and critical thinking skills
► Enhanced commitments to active citizenship skills by increasing personal development, civic skills and sense of
social responsibility
Empowering a new generation of leaders with service learning:
Participation in our WE Schools service learning programming contributes to significant
outcomes:

13. Measured outcomes: on youth and communities
Academic
Achievement
Workplace Readiness
and 21st Century
Skills
Active Citizenship and
Community
Engagement
2.0x more likely to be seen as a leader at school by peers and educators
1.3x more likely to feel prepared for college or university
58% report greater success at school as a result of their participation in WE
programs
Youth Outcomes
Source: Mission Measurement Youth Social Impact Study (2015)
2.1x more likely to self-identify as a strong leader
2.1x more likely to bring people together to solve problems
2.3x more likely to be confident public speakers
5.2x more likely to self-identify as agents of change
7.7x more likely to start campaigns to solve social problems
2.7x more likely to start non-profits or social enterprise organizations

14. Measured outcomes: on society in the long-term
Long-term Outcomes
Agents of Social
Change
Active
Citizenship and
Community
Engagement
Personal and
Professional
Success
81% of alumni report that their WE Schools experiences helped them
identify their career goals
66% of alumni agree their WE Schools experiences helped them
succeed in their school or professional life
83% of alumni donated to charity in the previous year
80% of alumni volunteered more than 150 hours in the previous year
79% of alumni voted in the most recent national election
82% of alumni used their professional skills such as leadership,
entrepreneurship and collaboration to solve a social problem
3.9x more likely than non-participating peers to mobilize others to
solve a social problem
Source: Mission Measurement Alumni Study (2012)

16. How WE Schools comes to life
September
Students and
teachers identify
causes and issues
they are passionate
about
WE Schools
coordinators guide
teachers
Investigate and learn
about chosen
causes with the
resources provided
by WE Schools
Professional
development is offered
to participating
educators
Students and
teachers attend an
outreach speech at
their school
Plan one local and one
global action to impact
your chosen causes
Engage your school
and community and
plan your campaign
Take action for your
cause
Students and
educators report
their actions and
impacts
Students and
educators celebrate
their positive impact
(WE Day, WE Day
Community)
Above represents how students and educators can activate with WE Schools year-
round. Level of involvement is custom to the needs of schools and school groups.

17. Education and training resources
Service learning resource kit Educational resources Action planning session
WE Schools kits are a
comprehensive set of
empowerment and capacity
building resources for both
educators and students.
WE Schools provides content
resources that can enhance
lesson plans aligned with
already existing curriculum.
WE Schools action planning
connects students with
motivational speakers virtually
or in person, helping fuel their
inspiration into action.

18. Professional learning and support for educators
Professional Development Year-long support Online Resources
We Schools hosts collaborative
workshops that allow educators
to explore programming
resources and provide tangible
and practical resources and
strategies.
We provide year-long support
from a WE Schools coordinator
with resources such as
campaign opportunities or new
ideas for service activities.
WE schools offers educator
resources online to supplement
the physical kits or find content
specific to the causes you and
your students have chosen.

19. Hand-on learning and engagement
Easy to run campaigns Speakers and workshops Youth conferences
When students decide to take
action on an issue, knowing
where to start can be a
challenge. WE Schools action
campaigns are resources for
inspiration.
Outreach speakers visit WE
Schools to inspire students with
their personal story and WE
Charity’s history.
Connect with other change-
making students, uniting over
your passions and impacts.

20. AP® with WE Service
AP® with WE Service offers educators the resources and support they need to use service learning as a pedagogy
while maintaining the academic rigor of AP® courses. It is an opt-in addition to core AP course offerings.
Service learning framework and resources are integrated into six AP® courses, linking each to one local and one
global cause:
AP® Environmental Science
– Water, Environment
AP® Human Geography –
Health, Food Security
AP® Studio Art: 2-D Design –
Homelessness, Environment
Students learn biology by
testing contaminants in water.
Students developing an action
plan that addresses hunger in
their community.
Students painting a mural to
demonstrate their individual
perspectives on man-made and
natural environments.
AP® Computer Science A –
Education, Health
AP® Spanish Language and
Culture – Poverty, Environment
AP® European History –
Education, Poverty
Students practice computer
science by coding apps for
good.
Students improve their Spanish
by working with new immigrants.
Students investigate significant
events and individuals in four
historical periods, developing
the same skills and methods
employed by historians.

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