As a part of our Writing The Future, Together commitment, to improve learning conditions for 250 million students worldwide, we are proud to launch our 5th annual Global Education Week initiative.
In partnership with the BIC Corporate Foundation, we aim to inspire and support diverse educational initiatives during Global Education Week. Throughout this time period, BIC team members from around the globe donate writing and coloring products to schools and organizations, volunteer in their local communities, supporting education in various ways.
With over 6.7 million units of product donated since 2022, BIC’s Global Education Week initiatives have positively impacted more than 530,000 children around the world – and we’re not stopping there.
In addition to product donations and volunteer initiatives, Global Education Week serves as a great way for educators to infuse BIC’s Creativity Educator’s Guide into their classrooms!
This manual, created by the BIC Corporate Foundation, includes activities for both primary education levels (ages 5-10) and secondary education levels (ages 11-18) to ignite a sense of curiosity and wonder in students.
Thank you for joining us in our mission to create stronger, more inclusive, and more creative classrooms for future generations!
Share your creative activities with your students on LinkedIn and Instagram using the hashtag #BICGlobalEducationWeek.
Our Educator’s Guide was created in collaboration with the partners list below.
Based in France, BIC Corporate Foundation’s mission is to promote access to quality education, with a particular focus on fostering creative skills. The Foundation believes that in the current context of our society’s transformation, economy, and workforce, creativity is a fundamental skill for nurturing a spirit of lifelong learning in children and youth. For this reason, the BIC Corporate Foundation funds non-profit organizations that offer innovative educational programs for children and youth in underserved and isolated communities, helping create changemakers and inspiring them to make their mark on our world. Since its establishment in 2016, the BIC Foundation has had a positive impact on more than 200,000 children, youth, and adults in over 20 countries.
Creative Actions are leaders in the field of pragmatic creativity, using evidence-based research to build creative and academic capacity and embed creative competencies in schools, vocational training and universities in the Asia Pacific and beyond. Senior partner, Dr Tim Patston, and his team, conduct applied research which is then utilised in educational organisations. His work has been recognised as a leading educational innovation by the HundrEd organisation of Finland. He works across the education sector, with organisations, individual educators and policy makers. He teaches in the Education faculties at three Australian universities. He is a featured expert in the documentary Finding Creativity and for Adobe Education. His publications, Creative Actions – Embedding Creative Competencies into Every Classroom, and the Indigenous Astronomy Starwheel are used widely across the education sector.
Based in the UK, Creativity Culture & Education is an international foundation who have been creating, researching, developing and collaborating with partners across the globe, offering creative learning, teaching and leadership programs to young people, their teachers and schools, since 2008. CCE is recognized by Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative as one of 50 organizations delivering an education that is engaging, powerful, rigorous, and relevant to the 21st century.
Based in Boston, FableVision/Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning & Creativity was founded by creativity champions, New York Times Number bestselling author/illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and his twin brother and co-author Paul. Peter, Paul and team work to foster positive, purposeful creativity through the power of media, storytelling and technology - with a focus on teacher professional development across schools & libraries. Their non-profit RC-TLC oversees International Dot Day, the global celebration of creativity, based on Peter’s picture book for all ages called The Dot. Dot Day has now reached over 29 million participants in more than 190 countries.