First Book Canada and Ashoka Canada are joining with Swiss Haute Horlogerie manufacturer Audemars Piguet to equip a generation of educators and young people with the abilities needed to take action to make sustainable change in communities within Canada and around the world. New resources are now available in English, French, Inuktitut, Plains Cree and Anishinaabemowin (Eastern Ojibwe).
Launched on September 30, 2024, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Time for Change resources are one way for us to respond to Call to Action #62, by building up a body of educational resources that tell the story of Indigenous innovators of today and support their flourishing tomorrow.
Getting Started with Changemaking
Getting Started
with Changemaking
Changemaking is the idea that, in collaboration with others, every person can apply creative solutions to address problems in their communities. Use this helpful resource to learn more about Changemaking and how you can incorporate it into your teaching or program.
Changemaking is the idea that, in collaboration with others, every person can apply creative solutions to address problems in their communities. Use this helpful resource to learn more about Changemaking and how you can incorporate it into your teaching or program.
The Four Key Changemaking Abilities
Discover our classroom Time Savers to help students develop key changemaker abilities: empathy, teamwork, leadership, and changemaking action. These skills will help them flourish in the classroom and make positive change in their communities.
Conscious Empathy
Teamwork
Changemaking Leadership
Changemaking Action
The Four Key
Changemaking Abilities
Use these Time Savers to help students develop the key changemaker abilities: empathy, teamwork, leadership, and changemaking action. These skills will help them succeed in the classroom and make positive change in their communities.
Conscious Empathy
Teamwork
Changemaking Leadership
Changemaking Action
Tools to Help You Foster Changemaking
Tools to Help You
Foster Changemaking
A Guide to Inspiring Young Changemakers
This guide will help you create an environment where your students believe they can be changemakers, see themselves as powerful, and identify ways they can make a difference in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
A Guide to Inspiring Young Changemakers
This guide will help you create an environment where your students believe they can be changemakers, see themselves as powerful, and identify ways they can make a difference in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
2025 – 2026 School Year Calendar: Time for Change
This year's school calendar celebrates the power of changemaking. We're highligting inspiring Canadians, key cultural and historical dates, and classroom-ready ideas to foster empathy, leadership, and teamwork. Theme months, religious observances, and dates with cultural or historical significance are also included.
2025 – 2026
School Year Calendar:
Time for Change
This year's school calendar celebrates the power of changemaking. We're highligting inspiring Canadians, key cultural and historical dates, and classroom-ready ideas to foster empathy, leadership, and teamwork. Theme months, religious observances, and dates with cultural or historical significance are also included.
Elementary Classroom Poster
Bring changemaking to your classroom with our colourful, engaging poster designed just for young learners.
Introduce Empathy, Leadership, Teamwork, and Action through playful visuals and conversation starters.
Perfect for classroom walls or as individual handouts. Download your free copy today.
Want a large, high-quality printed version mailed to you at no cost? Email timeforchangecanada@firstbook.org while quantities last.
An additional French version with more gender-inclusive language is also available HERE.
Elementary Classroom Poster
Bring changemaking to your classroom with our colourful, engaging poster designed just for young learners.
Introduce Empathy, Leadership, Teamwork, and Action through playful visuals and conversation starters.
Perfect for classroom walls or as individual handouts. Download your free copy today.
Want a large, high-quality printed version mailed to you at no cost? Email timeforchangecanada@firstbook.org while quantities last.
An additional French version with more gender-inclusive language is also available HERE.
Changemakers in Action: A Video Series
Changemakers from around the country share how they built sustainable solutions to problems in their communities. We hope these inspiring stories will encourage you and your students along your own changemaking journeys.
Changemakers in Action: A Video Series
Changemakers from around the country share how they built sustainable solutions to problems in their communities. We hope these inspiring stories will encourage you and your students along your own changemaking journeys.
Activity Sheet - Changemaking Scavenger Hunt
Designed for students ages 8 and up, this simple printable activity sheet helps young people reflect on what it means to be a changemaker in their community. It's a great tool for students who are just beginning their changemaking journey or aren't quite ready for journaling, encouraging them to spot real changemakers in action, and imagine how they can become one too.
Perfect for classroom use, field trips, or community events, this free resource is now available to download in both English and French.
Activity Sheet - Changemaking Activity Sheet
Designed for students ages 8 and up, this simple printable activity sheet helps young people reflect on what it means to be a changemaker in their community. It's a great tool for students who are just beginning their changemaking journey or aren't quite ready for journaling, encouraging them to spot real changemakers in action, and imagine how they can become one too.
Perfect for classroom use, field trips, or community events, this free resource is now available to download in both English and French.
Books Featuring Changemakers in Action
Books Featuring
Changemakers in Action
Canadian Changemaking Stories
Activism & Civic Engagement
Indigenous Characters & Cultures
Changemaking Stories by Canadians
Activism & Civic Engagement
Indigenous Characters & Cultures
SEL Books That Model Changemaking Skills
SEL Books That Model Changemaking Skills
Tools to Help You Foster Changemaking
Tools to Help You
Foster Changemaking
Student Changemaker Action Journal
The Changemaker Action Journal will inspire middle and high school students to reflect on issues and inefficiencies they notice in their communities and take action to address them.
Now available in Spanish!
Student Changemaker
Action Journal
The Changemaker Action Journal will inspire middle and high school students to reflect on issues and inefficiencies they notice in their communities and take action to address them.
Now Available in Spanish!
Accompanying Educator Guide
The educator guide to accompany the Changemaker Action Journal has introductory activities and suggestions about how to use the journal to develop your students’ changemaking abilities.
Accompanying Educator Guide
The educator guide to accompany the Changemaker Action Journal has introductory activities and suggestions about how to use the journal to develop your students’ changemaking abilities.
Subject Specific Tip Sheets
for Changemaking
Use these Tip Sheets to integrate changemaking into subjects like STEM, social studies, art, and health — and learn why doing so can increase students’ engagement, creativity,
and agency.
Incorporating Changemaking
into STEM
Incorporating Changemaking
into Social Studies
Using Books to Teach Empathy and Inspire Young Changemakers
Incorporating Changemaking
into Arts/Music
Incorporating Changemaking
into Health/PE
Subject Specific Tip Sheets
for Changemaking
Use these Tip Sheets to integrate changemaking into subjects like STEM, social studies, art, and health — and learn why doing so can increase students’ engagement, creativity, and agency.
Incorporating Changemaking
into STEM
Incorporating Changemaking
into Social Studies
Using Books to Teach Empathy
and Inspire Young Changemakers
Incorporating Changemaking
into Arts/Music
Incorporating Changemaking
into Health/PE