Sustainable Teaching Network

Laura and Ana are two social entrepreneurs. They give their time, energy and skills to a good cause. The value of their work is manyfold. But let's start by saying that this is a project carried out by young people, like our students, working to help others in a country that is hardly visible in textbooks or in the news: Equatorial Guinea. This choice to focus on people like Laura and Ana and their work is the kind of conscious decision that we, as language teachers, can make to make a difference too. Our entrepreneurship as language educators consists in making a good choice. What is a good choice? A meaningful one, one that directs the focus of attention to initiatives led by creative, resilient and resourceful people carried out in places most in need of such qualities and determination. And these do not have to be neither famous nor well-known.  We have to shift our attention and that of our students to normal people that decide to embark on extraordinary pathways and embrace t

  Our connection with place and the environment has become more and more problematic. This has dire consequences, and is putting life as we know it at high risk of collapsing, if not everywhere certainly in some parts of the world. If our relationship with our world is broken, our life in this world also suffers the consequences.  As a network of educators enabling young people to connect or reconnect with our world we can help restore the balance we need. We need to learn about the ecological failure we are facing to steer away from it. We need to pool together our skills, knowledge, creativity and responsibility and help to bring meaningful change through our most precious and powerful tool: teaching. Biodiversity and bio-cultural diversity intersect. Humans have co-evolved with nature and in the process of our mutual adaptation countless cultures and languages have developed. Regaining a good relationship with our world, the non-human other, leads to a better relationship with other