Greetings!

There are plenty of ways to take action and grow with your students. Some of the highlights include:

• New Professional Development in Transformative Learning Seminars and Institutes!  
• New on R4R: Children's Literature Reviews, Search Features, Hot Topics (Ozone Day and the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup), and check out the latest Lesson Plan Reviews
• Sign up to receive the fabulous Step Outside nature guides  
• Sudbury and London area teachers: Sign up for EcoLeague Youth Forums this fall!
• Action Project Funding: EcoLeague and Project FLOW 
• Get the Final Report of the Ready or not? Preparing youth for 21st century responsible citizenship Roundtables 
• Apply for funding through the Aviva Community Fund 

Ready or not? Preparing youth for 21st century responsible citizenship

Deloitte and Learning for a Sustainable Future hosted four roundtables this past spring on educating youth for responsible citizenship.  

The calls to action that came out of the roundtables were:  

• Make responsible citizenship education a priority: establish it as a graduation outcome
• Learning through experience: embed leadership and volunteerism into the curriculum with service learning
• Grounding education in real word issues: embed learning within the local community
• Empowering youth as change agents: provide positive role models to encourage and support engagement
• Supporting teachers: equip teachers to teach democratically and engage their students in civic participation

The final report, "Ready or not? Preparing youth for 21st century responsible citizenship" is available on the LSF website.  

Next Steps

LSF is hosting a What's Worth Knowing in Education for Responsible Citizenship Symposium in the spring of 2013. We will also be launching a competition to write a "Code of Responsibilities and Duties" for Canadian youth that parallels the Charter of Rights and Freedoms later this fall.