💙🌍 TEACHERS FOR PEACE – SUNDAY NIGHT GATHERING Hello, amazing teachers and volunteers! 💙 You're warmly invited to our Sunday Night Teacher Gathering! 📅 Sunday, November 1, 2026 🕖 7:00–8:00 PM (Barcelona/Madrid time) 🌍 Meeting times: 🇬🇧 London – 6:00 PM 🇪🇸 Barcelona – 7:00 PM 🇺🇦 Kyiv – 8:00 PM 🇦🇫 Kabul – 10:30 PM 📍 Join us on Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/tdr-vwvs-sky What we'll discuss: Updates from our Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Syria chapters Current classes and student needs Volunteer roles and team responsibilities Learners to Leaders and GivingTuesday Our next steps as a global teaching community Whether you've been volunteering since the beginning or have only recently joined us, your voice matters. Together, we're building more than classes. We're building a global community of educators who believe education should continue, even during war and displacement. 💙 Looking forward to seeing you tonight!

Hello my friends! ❤️ I wanted to share something I've been working on with my FCE (B2 First) students! I've been teaching teenagers for years, and one thing I've learned is that not every student learns, processes information, or handles exam pressure in the same way. Some of my students struggle to stay focused, others get overwhelmed by long texts or timed activities, and some know the answers but have trouble organizing their thoughts. So I've been experimenting with different ways to make FCE preparation more accessible, engaging, and a little less stressful, particularly for students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences. I've put together some activities and strategies that I'm happy to share with you all for FREE! ❤️ 📚 What's included? 🎯 Odd One Out — FCE Warm-Up: A vocabulary and grammar challenge where students identify the word that doesn't belong and, more importantly, explain WHY! Great for critical thinking, speaking, linking words, and modal verbs. 🧠 Discussion & Speaking Activities: Follow-up questions that encourage students to explain their reasoning and use more advanced English. 📖 Multiple Choice Cloze Practice: FCE Reading & Use of English activities with worked explanations and strategies for eliminating incorrect answers. 🌈 Visual Grammar & Vocabulary Activities: Color-coding, highlighting, and language detective tasks to help students recognize verb tenses, linking words, and collocations. 💡 Focus & Exam Strategies: Simple techniques such as breaking activities into smaller steps, using reading guides, and building confidence under exam conditions. I'm sharing these because I believe good teaching ideas should travel! And I'd LOVE your feedback. 👩‍🏫 TEACHER DISCUSSION: Do you teach students with ADHD, dyslexia, or other learning differences? What's ONE strategy you've found really helpful for keeping students engaged or reducing exam anxiety? Have you adapted any exam preparation activities that you'd be willing to share?

Hello my friends! To be honest, I've been feeling a little overwhelmed lately. I'm going through a new phase in my life. Perimenopause (oh, the joys! 😂), moving to the countryside, changing schools, and trying to balance family, teaching, and Teachers for Peace. I made these changes so I could dedicate more time to Teachers for Peace, but goodness, change is exhausting! And then I think about our incredible teachers in Ukraine, continuing to teach through endless rocket and drone attacks. Our teachers in Afghanistan, some teaching in hiding, and now our teachers in Syria, some facing redundancy and losing their jobs. It breaks my heart. Why is it that education is so often one of the first things to suffer during conflict? We lose so much more than classrooms. We lose routine, connection, opportunity, and sometimes hope. And that is exactly why Teachers for Peace exists. ❤️ But what about the teachers themselves? We're all carrying different things. Some are facing unimaginable challenges, while others are juggling families, classrooms, children, homes, husbands... 😂 And somehow, we keep going! But we also need to look after ourselves and each other. And goodness, it's only October! We have a whole school year ahead of us! So let's bring a little joy into this space. 🍂 🎃 Do you celebrate Halloween or have any fun autumn classroom traditions? ☕ And more importantly, what helps YOU keep your spirits up when life feels overwhelming? Share a photo, a funny story, or simply tell us how you're doing. And if you're struggling, that's okay too. You don't always have to be the strong one. Sending you all a big hug from Spain! 🌍❤️ Jennifer

🌍 What could we create together for Generosity Week? 💜 If you don't know this about me yet, I'm a BIG believer in radical generosity! In 2022, I was part of the GivingTuesday Starling Collective, a global community of grassroots changemakers who believe that even the smallest acts of generosity can create incredible change. And honestly, Teachers for Peace is living proof of that! When the war in Ukraine began, I asked a teacher friend how I could help. She asked me to keep the children busy, so I offered free English lessons. Other teachers joined in, generously sharing their time, skills, and knowledge. Four years later, together we've delivered over 4,000 free lessons to children and adults affected by war and displacement. All because people were willing to give a little of what they had. ❤️ That's what radical generosity means to me. With Generosity Week (December 1–7) coming up, I've been wondering... What if we brought our classrooms together for one global act of generosity? Have a go at the poll below! I'd LOVE to hear your ideas! 💌 International classroom kindness exchange ❤️ 7-day generosity challenge 📚 Teachers sharing resources and skills 🌱 Student-led community projects 🤝 Global online classroom event 💡 Something else? Tell us in the comments! Let's see what we can create together! 🌍💜 Jennifer #GivingTuesday #RadicalGenerosity #TeachersForPeace

Imagine all of us have just walked through your classroom door. What's the first thing we'd notice? 👀 The walls? 🎒 The students? 📚 The books? ☕ The coffee on your desk? 😂 The noise? Tell us about your classroom. What makes it uniquely yours? We have teachers here from all over the world, and I think we can learn just as much from each other's classrooms as we can from each other's lesson plans.