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Annie Woollard, Teach SDGs Ambassador, on SDG education and global classrooms.

Episode Summary

Annie Woollard is a global educator and TeachSDGs Ambassador. She gives us an overview of the 17 United Nations Global Goals and talks about her work in educating children, and the opportunities and upside for NFP's, NGO's and businesses from embracing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Episode Notes

AnnieWoollard from footprintsontheglobe is a TeachSDGs ( United Nations sustainabledevelopmentgoals ) Ambassador. She's a lifelong #educator, and now also a #globaleducator on the Teach Sustainable Development Goals. Her teaching world changed after discovering the #SDGs while teaching in a school in Melbourne. From there everything became about #globaleducation. We talk about;

the origins and importance of the #SDGs which follow on from the @#Millenniumgoals
the 17 amazing goals that make up the #unitednations #SDGs - covering #education #lifeunderwater #lifeonland
the #2030 target date and what the objectives are
a wonderful campaign at the moment called the www.worldstodolist.org who are asking everyone in small steps or large steps to take them on board to work towards making a better planet, a better and more #sustainableenvironment for everyone, a more equitable world
why it's important whether you are an individual, a #school, a #notforprofit, a #smallbusiness, a large corporation to take these on in some small way, and to work together
how surprisingly everyone is often already doing something already - they just didn't have it mapped already to a goal
how it all started for Annie by resigning from her teaching job, which she really loved, to launch @FOTG in 2019 to deliver greater #globalimpact
becoming a Teach Sustainable Development Goals Ambassador and promote the global goals wherever she went
the up's and down's of starting your own business - the leap of faith, when the easy option would have been to stay teaching where she was very happy and just roll in, roll out
extending into educating businesses, #NFPs, #NGOs and government organizations about the #SDGs
why young students are the future
what makes up contemporary education - #designthinking, and 21st-century skills of #problemsolving, and #innovation, and #questioning and #reasoning - that's how they're learning at the moment. So they are willing to step up and have a go and try different things, and it's completely different style of education
how the world of #sustainability and #climatechange and #climateaction is really becoming at the forefront of people's minds
why people need to work out what they can do to help make our planet a better place for everyone
SDGs' Sustainable Development goals in #smallbusiness
how #businessowners can become a part of this more easily - starting with something they think is interesting and resonates
the wwwglobalgoals.org website and the many ideas and resources out there for businesses, for schools, for corporations
the "start small and build on" approach to avoid being overwhelmed
the major projects Annie is involved with at wwwtake3.org where she is designing and facilitating aa young leaders programs and #ProjectBlue involving a couple of hundred students (10 to 12-year-olds) on what makes a leader all through the lens of #plasticpollution and #oceanconservation. The students were all engaged to do waste audit and to complete a 14-day challenge that aimed to change their behavior in some way, and then taking it further, by telling people, 3 people, what you're doing so then they would tell 3 people - the ripple effect
how #covid has told us or taught us is that the world is just truly connected - what happens on one side of the world affects the other side of the world, and we're foolish. If we think we're sitting in our own little silo, and it doesn't affect us, and it does. So we do need to work together to see if we can get these goals achieved by 2030