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Media Features: Better World Day on the Big Screen

Are you ready to take Better World Day to another level? If your school is in active partnership with EL Education, you can apply for a $2,000 Media Feature grant to share your Better World Day story with the world in two ways:

  • A mini-documentary about your Better World Day project. Get inspired by past Media Feature schools:

Ujima Wellness

Students at Kuumba Academy Charter School embodied Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) by partnering with medical professionals to create a school-based health center in their school building.

Out of the Margins

Old Sturbridge Academy students advocated for more diverse representation in Old Sturbridge Village, a 19th-century immersive living museum with which their school shares a site.

Buttons for a Better World

Students make the invisible visible at Explore PK-8 by crafting and wearing unique buttons. These buttons’ designs promote inclusivity and spark connections by sharing the purposes, passions, and identities of button-wearers.

  • A live keynote address from two of your students at EL Education’s 2023 National Conference in Denver, CO, this December. *Travel, lodging, and registration costs will be covered for two students, their school liaison(s), and their chaperone(s).

Ujima Wellness

This video features the EL Education 2022 National Conference presentation of Saniya Cunningham and Bishop Whitehead, from Kuumba Academy in Wilmington, Delaware.

Out of the Margins

This video features the EL Education 2022 National Conference presentation of Wyatt Neill and Elijah Ofori, students from Old Sturbridge Academy in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

Buttons for a Better World

This video features the EL Education 2022 National Conference presentation of Cayden Olson and Clark Pittman, students from Explore PK-8 in Thornton, Colorado.

We’ll work with members of the Student Advisory Council to select three schools to receive Media Feature grants. These schools will receive weekly guidance, support, and collaboration from EL Education staff. These meetings will begin mid-March and continue through EL Education’s 2023 National Conference in December 2023.

Applications for the Better World Day Media Features are now closed.

For questions about Media Features or the Media Feature grant application, please contact Jessica Wood, EL Education’s Associate Director of Experiential Marketing, at jwood@eleducation.org.