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Want to learn about the latest in online safety? The Alannah & Madeline Foundation is hosting free webinars for educators, parents, and carers. Check them out! #eSaftey #OnlineSafety #Education #Resources

🌟 Championing Unrestricted Funding in 2025 🌟 As an innovative, performance-driven not-for-profit, we’re dedicated to fostering greater collaboration and transparency between charities and funders. This year, we are making a special effort to promote the benefits of unrestricted, untied, Pay What it Takes funding. We’re an open book and we invite trusts, foundations, philanthropists, and intermediaries who want to take a closer look at how we measure, monitor, and report on our progress toward our mission. Book time with Naomi Nicholas, our Head of Community Engagement, for an in-depth conversation about: 📈 How we monitor and report on Cool.org’s KPIs. 🔍How we measure impact and evaluate the effectiveness of our work. 🚀 The transformational power of unrestricted funding to drive mission-aligned outcomes. We’re passionate about transparency and excited to share our experience to help others understand the incredible potential of unrestricted funding to empower charities and drive long-term impact. Let’s work together to build a stronger, more impactful nonprofit sector. 🌱 📅 Book an online session with Naomi: https://lnkd.in/gqbEAmk8 Thea Stinear ✨, Jason Kimberley, Hamish Curry, Jan Owen AM Hon DLitt, Julie Buxton, Helen Whitehead, Josh Cubillo, David Coleman, Naomi Nicholas - if you have a moment to share with your networks, that would be brilliant 😊 #UnrestrictedFunding #Philanthropy #Charity #Impact #Transparency #CoolOrg #PayWhatItTakes #Collaboration #NFPs #Sustainability #Education #Productivity #Agile #Governance

Anika Molesworth, PhD, is a farmer, scientist, and storyteller, widely recognised for her work in agriculture, food systems, and raising climate change awareness. She is the author of #OurSunburntCountry, which won the Royal Societies of Australia and New Zealand Writer’s Award for Outstanding Writing on Social Change. We’ve collaborated with Anika to launch new professional learning for educators, covering topics such as #ClamateChange, #Ecoanxiety, #CultivatingHope, #InclusiveClimateEducation, #ClimateCommunication, #RegenerativeAgriculture, #FoodSystems, and #SoilHealth. Our 45-minute online courses are hosted on our premium platform, Cool+. For less than the cost of a cup of coffee per week, educators gain access to premium resources, saving over 5 hours a week while building their knowledge and skills. Please share with your teacher networks! ❤️

🌍 Empowering Educators to Inspire Change with ‘The Life You Can Save’🌍 At Cool.org, we’re proud to partner with The Life You Can Save to offer impactful education resources that are free to download. These 6 units of sequential learning help educators equip their students with the tools to tackle urgent challenges like global poverty and inequality. These resources have already inspired 39,800 young people to understand the power of effective altruism and the practical ways they can make a real difference. By fostering critical thinking and compassion, students learn how their choices—big and small—can create a ripple effect of positive change. 💡 Why It Matters: Educators have shared that teaching with Cool.org resources results in students feeling more hopeful about the future. What’s more, 78% of educators have observed improvements in their students’ knowledge, confidence, and skills. 🙌 A Big Thanks to the educators who champion these resources in their classrooms and to The Life You Can Save. Your dedication and investment are shaping a generation of changemakers. If you haven’t explored The Life You Can Save resources yet, discover them here: https://lnkd.in/gc-PqD_3 Let’s continue to inspire hope, action, and change—one classroom at a time. 🌟 #SDGs #Education #Teachers #Resources #Altruism #Values #Action

As the year comes to a close, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our entire community— educators, values-aligned, philanthropic partners and everyone we've worked with or crossed paths with this year. Your passion, collaboration and commitment to empowering educators and creating meaningful change inspire us every day. Wishing you all a joyful and restful holiday season. Here’s to an impactful 2025, together! Love from, The Cool.org Team. #education #seasonsgreetings

Hamish Curry, our general manager at Cool.org, has written an incredibly thought-provoking article for Learning Creates Australia’s 'Shaping the Future of Learning' event, held in Sydney this week. He highlights the need for education to prioritise real-world connections and experiences over technological reliance, emphasising the importance of fostering genuine relationships, critical thinking and proactive engagement in students' lives to combat isolation and anxiety. Have a read - it’s a really interesting one that’s sure to spark reflection and conversation! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gWTvXabb #education #technology

After 13 transformative years at the helm, our CEO, Thea Stinear ✨, is taking on a new challenge within Cool.org. While stepping down as CEO, her new role will focus on expanding our international impact and forging new partnerships. Importantly, Thea is also creating space to spend more time with her young family. Under Thea's leadership, Cool.org has flourished, supporting over 202,000 educators and delivering 29 million lessons globally. Her unwavering commitment to championing educators and creating meaningful, evidence-based resources has been inspirational. Jan Owen AM, our Chair, describes Thea as "one of those unique, truly grounded, highly self-aware, deeply passionate, mission-driven leaders with the ability to navigate, lead, pivot, and adapt. This has led to real outcomes with genuine impact for over 200,000 educators and millions of students!" As we bid Thea farewell in her current role, the search begins for a new CEO to lead the mighty Cool Crew. This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead a forward-thinking organisation at the crossroads of education, technology, sustainability and social justice. Are you ready to join us as we continue to make a lasting difference for educators and students worldwide? #Education #Tech #Sustainability #SocialJustice #Leadership #Impact

In collaboration with AIME, we’re proud to launch four workshops and a professional learning course designed to help educators shift from traditional teacher-student dynamics to mentor-mentee relationships, unlocking relational potential, bridging cultural gaps and nurturing collective and individual imagination within the classroom. The workshops empower young people to design their dream learning spaces, explore the importance of goal setting, become comfortable in learning through failure and learn from and with local knowledge holders.  The professional learning course equips educators with strategies for understanding, connecting with, and teaching all students, with a focus on First Nations students. It also explores the core values of mentoring. It’s been an honour collaborating with AIME to create these impactful resources—together, we’re reimagining education and mentorship. Check these resources out here: https://lnkd.in/gm-drqbC #education #teachingresources #partnership #launch

🌟 Join the Conversation on the Future of Education 🌟   Cool.org’s Hamish Curry and First Nations expert Tanna Hardinge are bringing their expertise to the EduXchange Conference, an interactive virtual event designed for sharing, learning and leading in Australian schools.   🗓 When: 25-29 November 2024 | 4:00 pm AEDT (with Cool.org's workshop running on 26 November) 🤝 Designed for Principals, school leaders, IT leaders, curriculum coordinators, head teachers and passionate educators. 🎓 Explore practical strategies and insights to inspire the next generation.   🔗Register here: https://hubs.li/Q02VCshP0   Here are some of the incredible people you'll hear from at this expo: Dr Simon Breakspear, Think Forward Educators, Literacy Impact Programme, PESA, The Wellbeing Distillery, PivotPlanet, Seven Steps to Writing Success, Next Learning, Dr Nathaniel Swain, Julie Scali, David Bott, Cleo Westhorpe, Toddle - Your Teaching Partner   #EduXchangeConference #professionaldevelopment #freepd #australianschools #education #educationexpo #AustralianEducation 

Schools can lead the change in tackling the e-waste crisis!   Have a read of this article to find out how we've worked with Comsol to develop educational resources to teach students about e-waste and actions that they can take to reduce it. There is also some great information about the Free Cartridge Collection Program for schools and the e-waste Pop-Up Days to keep an eye out for.   Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/gJJtNr-m #ewaste #education #schools #teachers