The shocks of the last year have made it clear that we need to change the way people think and work towards a sustainable future. We are facing a number of ‘wicked problems’, meaning they are complex, hard to solve, crosses many disciplines and affects many people – the wicked just means hard to fix.
 
In 2021,  we thought it was a good time to use our core values of creative, independent and compassionate thinking to focus on one of the biggest challenges of our time. Climate change, and the need to shift the basis of our societies towards an environmentally-friendly and sustainable future, means we need to find new ways to collaborate.
 
Climate literacy is going to play a critical role in our children’s future and we want to support its development, using the tools developed by Learn2Think and the opportunity to focus supplied by Tolerance Day. Such literacy not only encourages changes in children’s attitudes and behaviour, it helps them adapt to climate change related trends and empowers them to make change their own.
 
So this year climate change as ‘The Wicked Problem’ is going to be our theme –. And this year we’ll be building up to Tolerance Day on 16th November, and providing you with free resources to help build knowledge amongst your children and students. We’ll be updating you over the year as we add further resources.

You can download the background to Tolerance Day here.