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World Wide Fund for Nature Indonesia (WWF Indonesia) with Guru Belajar Foundation (GBF) launched the electronic guidebook “Waste-Free Families: Reflections from Home for a Better Earth” recently online. This book is a response to climate issues that often feel distant and abstract, even though the impact affects the family, both today and the future. This collaborative work provides a practical guide for families to begin their waste-free lifestyle journey. "This book also invites us to commit together on how to create a school and home environment. Because we know that small changes all start from home,” explained Dwi Widya Mutiara, Education Officer WWF Indonesia. Read too: Deep Learning Restores the Essence of the Teacher's Role Dwi hopes, This book can strengthen the role of the family as the smallest unit in society and support a more environmentally friendly lifestyle with minimal waste. "We believe this is a joint collaboration for us to make our environment better. And of course we have to start from ourselves, starting from now, and start small,said Dwi. “A waste-free school is not a dream. We know and we can if we want to move together,he continued. This electronic book will be used by schools assisted by WWF and GBF in the Zero Waste School program. However, Access is free and open to all schools and families who want to take part in efforts to create a sustainable lifestyle. Consist of 19 page, This book was written by combining several writing styles, of persuasiveness, narrative, to informative. In the beginning, Book users will be invited to imagine how their daily lifestyle impacts the environment and quality of life. Read too: The response of educators to the barracks school: Education cannot be instant. Then it is equipped with an activity sheet, good practice, discussion starter, to recommendations for further reading or viewing. “This book may not be able to immediately reduce waste at home, but my hope is that this book will be a conversation starter about what this really is (zero waste) it could be something we work on,” explained Puty Puar from Buibu Baca Buku, who also compiled this book with GBF. "In fact, the first thing that is most important to convey to parents about this book is the beginning, the why part, that's what's important. Sometimes we know we have to sort the trash, but we don't know why," he continued. According to Putty, collaboration between schools and parents will have a significant impact. He was sure, The message of the zero waste movement will be more easily accepted by parents if it is conveyed by teachers. "Especially if it can be part of school assignments or collective reflection at school, this could have a bigger impact,” concluded Puty. (Yosi)

Student shortages are still a challenge for many schools, both private and public. In the current period of accepting new students, schools are starting to massively implement promotional strategies. However, according to Lina Wijayanti, teacher and Deputy Director for Education at the Alkhairiyah Surabaya Foundation, schools need to develop added value (added value) which is conveyed to the public if the promotional efforts are to be successful. This cannot only be done during the period of accepting new students but consistently throughout the year. "This added value is how we balance quality in fact and quality in perception," explained Lina in the webinar "The Secret to Successfully Accepting New Students" which was part of a series of studies at the recent Merdeka Leaders Festival by the Merdeka Leaders Campus.. Read too: STEAM Fair Elementary School Students in Babel: Tin Damages the Environment Quality in fact is what the school actually has and produces. For example, performance standards, accreditation, graduation rate, physical facilities, and teaching quality. Meanwhile, quality in perception is how society assesses schools. School Competitiveness Strategy: Positioning, Differentiation, and Branding To balance quality in fact and quality of perception, Schools need to pay attention to three things, namely positioning, differentiation, and branding. Positioning Positioning is a way for a school to position itself in the eyes of the community, especially prospective students and parents. There are at least three questions that need to be reflected on to be able to determine positioning. The three questions are:, (1) what are the main strengths of the school? (2) what kind of image the school wants to instill in society?, and (3) who is the school's main target?? “From the answer we can conclude the positioning. For example, the school I went to was a STEAM school which encouraged creativity and innovation, Every year there is a STEAM festival,said Lina. “When identifying, Write down all the brainstorming results first, who knows, maybe there will be an evaluation along the way, that's okay,he continued. Read too: 2. Differentiation Through differentiation, The school shows uniqueness so that there is added value compared to other schools. Several things that schools need to answer to determine differentiation are: (1) what innovative academic programs it has? (2) what learning approach is used? (3) what are the learning support facilities?? (4) what extracurricular programs are superior?, and (5) what is the student guidance and counseling system?? Read too: Andi Zupriaty's Way of Dealing with Vocational School Students with the Stigma of Being Naughty "Excellent programs such as offering blended learning. If it's my school, because the positioning is an Islamic school, then the superior program supports this, namely Ubudiyah and Al-Quran Everyday,explained Lina. 3. Branding After determining positioning and differentiation, It's time for schools to do branding. Branding is a communication process so that the school's positioning and differentiation is conveyed to the public, thereby forming a positive perception. There are several components of school branding, namely (1) visual identities such as logos to school uniforms, (2) the message and value conveyed through the tagline, (3) reputation and testimonials,(4) promotional activities via social media, open house, and participation in competitions, and (5) positive effect. All School Members Are Involved At the end of the webinar, Lina confirmed, Success in building perception in the eyes of the community needs to be done consistently by all school members. "No one is spared to broadcast out. All teachers and even staff receive training and assistance. For example, our tagline is the Al Quran generation, then the teacher also needs to have these qualities,explained Lina. “Or the branding is a joyful school, then we need to monitor in learning, what is missing?? Don't let the branding be like that, but apparently not,” he concluded. (Yosi) This coverage was previously published in April 2025.

Teachers have an important role in helping students become sensitive and provide solutions to problems around them. This role was carried out well by Wardah Fepriyani, guru SD MHIS Bangka, Bangka Belitung Islands (Babel). Since studying at the Wardah Inspiring Teacher program 2024 organized by ParagonCorp and the Independent Leadership Campus, he actively reflects on his students' learning process. Until one of his good teaching practices was published in the book Proud to Be a Teacher, Dare to Inspire. Through his writing, Fepriyani tells how he facilitates students to understand the environmental crisis in their area, Babel. Babylon is one of the largest contributing provinces of tin in Indonesia. The impact of economic improvement is accompanied by natural damage mainly due to the many illegal mines. This moves Fepriyani to bring the issue of tin to his class. "Changes in air and weather quality are very much felt by the people here. As a teacher, I feel responsible for building student awareness about this,he explained. Local issues increase student enthusiasm learning learning begins by showing data and photos of mining areas to students and then asking their opinions. Boisterous students express their feelings, Some claimed to be sad. Previously students have learned about global warming. But they don't realize that their lives have been affected by this. Through this learning, only then can they connect the concept to local issues. "Someone asked, This means that we are already feeling global warming here? It turns out that previously the students did not realize that the hot temperatures in Babylon were part of global warming due to the exploitation of nature,” explained Fepriyani. Furthermore, students are challenged to formulate positive contributions to increase public awareness of this issue. Many ideas emerged, such as digital campaigns, distributing posters, plant Trees, and so on. From student ideas, Fepriyani then proposed a miniature project for three conditions of the earth. Each miniature depicts the state of the earth full of arrow holes, the hot state of the earth due to the burning of tin, and the third is the ideal state of the earth with green trees. This was approved by the student. Students return to collect data and then be creative in making a miniature. The results were presented at the end of the steam fair semester which invited many guests including parents of students and the surrounding community. Feripriyani claimed to be emotional when there were students who loudly invited guests who were present to collaborate to stop illegal tin mining. “As a teacher, That moment strengthens my belief that education is able to instill noble values ​​that can bring positive changes to society,"Close Fepriyani. (Yosi)

SMBC Indonesia together with the Guru Belajar Foundation (GBF) successfully held the Protean Financial Literacy and Career Media Festival (Your festif) on Thursday (28/10) and Friday (29/10) online. More than 1500 Active participants take part in FESTIFIN via Zoom and YouTube broadcasts. Festifin is a learning celebration of participants in the financial creative teacher program (GKCF) which aims to support teacher empowerment through increasing financial literacy competency and career development. A lot 50 The speaker at this festival is part of 187 Financial literacy drive that graduated from the GKCF program. They share good practices through the educational media they have designed. Rizqy Rahmat Hani, chairman of the Independent Leaders Campus, Implementing Unit from GBF, say, Festifin is a strategic step so that the impact of increasing financial literacy participants can extend to many teachers and students. "Festifin is a forum for teachers to empower each other, yesterday I got knowledge, now share their knowledge with other teachers who have not gotten a chance. It is hoped that all teachers are empowered to their financial conditions, so that it also impacts when they teach,” Teachers who are financially literate have greater potential to integrate financial literacy in the teaching and learning process, realize contextual learning by helping to equip students with real problems around them, including understanding of good financial management. Read too: Teaching Media Training: 3 Important Things When Designing a Prototype "Teachers are empowered not only to be able to manage the money they get from their monthly salary but how to increase their income through a professional career,”Added Rizqy. GBF prepared a special session regarding the development of Protean Career at Festifin. The teacher actually has a broad opportunity to develop a Protean Career, Like being a creator content teacher, Coach teacher, Teacher Media Teacher Teacher, and others. Besides increasing income, Protean career increases job satisfaction, encourage self -development, as well as providing flexibility for teachers to contribute more according to their interests but are still in line with the life of learning and teaching in the classroom.   Teacher Creates Exciting Teaching Media for Fellow Tamsiruddin Teachers, UPTD Teacher SMP Negeri 1 Parepare, Festifin resource person, disclose, The ability of the teacher's financial literacy requires attention. "The teacher's income is frequent 5,0, This means it's still on the fifth or the beginning of the month but the balance has been 0 arrival,” he said. One of the reasons is the lack of wise management so that it is still trapped in non -productive installments. Worse, Not a few teachers who ended up caught in an online loan debt (pine nuts) illegal. Responding to the situation, Tamsiruddin took the initiative to create a Cuan Card Education Media. Presented during festifin, Cuan card is a simple calculator to help teachers manage their income to be more efficient. Read too: Creating Meaningful Teaching Media Can Use Artificial Intelligence "This card can be used by those whose salaries are above 5 million and below 5 million. Hopefully we can all be consistent and consistent in managing our finances so we can avoid impulsive buying and non-productive debt. Can save even investment,"He explained. There are various other interesting media, one of the books is packaged like a learning management system (LMS) to more interactive. This book guides its readers to understand the financial concepts of the basis, complete with the game of managing finances, to the assessment. (YMH)

Commemorating World Teachers' Day, SMBC Indonesia collaborates with the Guru Belajar Foundation (GBF) and the Nusantara Learning Teacher Community held a workshop "Innovative Learning and Strong Financial Management" on Saturday (5/10) in Jakarta and Sunday (6/10) in Yogyakarta and Makassar. This workshop is part of the Financially Smart Creative Teacher bootcamp (GKCF) which has been going online for a month. In an online session, Participants learn to manage finances and create teaching media for students using design thinking principles. Meanwhile at the workshop, Participants were challenged to test prototypes of teaching media related to financial literacy. Teaching media is not intended for use by students but by fellow teachers. “This study scholarship is Bank BTPN's commitment to be a friend of teachers. We care about education and we believe that the spearhead of educational progress is teachers and we want to be with you,” said Dody Safrizal, Area Business Leader Pension Business & Area Head Jakarta in his speech. The workshop topic was born out of Bank BTPN and YGB's concerns regarding teachers' difficulties in managing personal finances. The low average income of teachers encourages them to develop a protean career so that they have various sources of income. However, This is not accompanied by financial management skills. Read too: Creating Meaningful Teaching Media Can Use Artificial Intelligence "When we opened registration for this scholarship, his enthusiasm was so extraordinary that 9000 more registrants. We are amazed at the enthusiasm for learning, Mr/Mrs teacher. I hope that those of you who have the opportunity to study here will pass on your knowledge to other teachers who have not had the opportunity," said Dody. Trial of Financial Literacy Teaching Media In trial, Participants were divided into small groups to introduce the financial literacy teaching media they had designed, which is then assessed by fellow group members. Intan Irawati, participants from MAN 15 Jakarta, expressed his feelings of gratitude because he can now create more meaningful teaching media. He narrated, after attending the GKCF online session, he has started creating teaching media with design thinking for his students. “Changes have occurred in my students, they are more enthusiastic about studying physics. The students were initially more silent, I'm starting to have the courage to express my opinion. I also feel like I have become closer to the students, Students no longer hesitate to raise difficulties," said Intan. Read too: Teaching Media Training: 3 Important Things When Designing a Prototype "Now I am challenged to create teaching media that can help fellow teachers. I hope that the media I create is useful and highly effective so that it can help improve the ability to manage finances for its users,he continued. He recounted the experience of his friend who once came crying, Turns out it was because it was entangled in pinjol. Intan doesn't want this to happen again to the people around her, so he was very enthusiastic when he received a challenge from the GKCF program. After trial, there was a learning session on creating content led by Ria Farrabila, teacher content creator whose teaching videos often go viral on Instagram. This session invites participants to always share good practices, including the practice of creating teaching media on social media. The aim is to inspire other teachers who have not had the opportunity to become GKCF scholarship recipients. (Yosi)