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The national programme for sustainability teaching

Who trains a quarter
of a million teachers?

من يدرّب ربع مليون معلم؟

In its 2026 Voluntary National Review, Saudi Arabia committed to sustainability training for 250,000 teachers by 2028. The promise sits on page 154. NTRP is the working answer: a three-hour training that carries NIEPD points, and a bank where the lessons already exist.

"varying teacher readiness in delivering sustainability and environmental education"
VNR 2026, page 154. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Watch the film
A quarter of a million. The NTRP story in one film.
Here is the strange part
77
Accredited PD courses in the national catalogue
0
Of them on sustainability
500K+
Teachers already on national platforms, daily

Nothing needs inventing. The platforms exist, the teachers log into them every day, and the commitment is already signed. What is missing is the material and the training to put on top.

What NTRP actually is
Part 01

The Training

One mandatory session of three hours, built around a protected sustainability essentials core, with optional self-study beyond it. Every certificate carries NIEPD professional development points.

3 hoursEssentials coreNIEPD points
Part 02

The Sustainability Resource Bank

Complete lesson kits for every region, every pathway, every grade. Arabic first, curriculum codes matched, sized for 40-minute classes. Watch it work below.

44 kits194 resources2 × 40 min
▼ WATCH IT WORK
Live demo (loops every 17 seconds)

Amal teaches Grade 3 science in Abha.
This is her Sunday morning.

greenbox.world/sustainability-bank
44 kits, 194 resources
01 Region 02 Pathway 03 Grade 04 Subject
CORE: ALWAYS ONFILMPLANCARDSWORKSHEET

Sustainability Essentials

What does caring for our world mean, here and now?
MOE SUS-CORE-A, maps to the approved Sustainable Development course
2 × 40 MIN (TWO CLASSES)
FILMLESSON PLANSTORY CARDSWORKSHEET

Where Did the Rain Go?

Where does Asir's rain travel after it falls?
MOE SCI-3-2.1, ARB-3-1.4. Evidence: NCM rainfall, Abha station
2 × 40 MIN (TWO CLASSES)
Amal opens the bank.
Six things worth knowing
The Essentials kit

Whatever you pick, one kit is already there.

Before any filter, a Sustainability Essentials kit is pinned for every band, in every region, mapped to the approved Sustainable Development course. No teacher ever meets an empty shelf.

CORE: ALWAYS ON

Sustainability Essentials

Kingdom-wide, every pathway, pinned before any subject kit.

2 × 40

Each half fits a normal 40-minute period.

Every kit is two classes of forty minutes, planned end to end. Four pieces arrive together, Arabic first, English mirrored.

Film6 MIN, ARABIC
Lesson plan2 × 40 MIN
Slides12, AR/EN
WorksheetA4, AR/EN
How a kit runs

The same six moves, from Understand to Evaluate.

Understand through Evaluate, inside the two classes. The cycle moves learners past awareness into feasible improvement.

Understand→Investigate→Reflect→Create→Act→Evaluate
A year in four slots

Plan the whole school year inside one drawer.

The term plan drawer builds the framework's promise slot by slot: one journey per term, one annual community action, nothing added to the timetable.

Term 1Where Did the Rain Go?, Water Security✓
Term 2Shade Hunters, Sustainable Cities✓
Term 3Sky Colours, Climate & Air✓
ActionSchool water audit, annual✓
Paperwork, handled

The MOE codes are already on every kit.

Every kit carries its MOE curriculum codes, the five secondary tracks keep their own applications, and the whole bank runs inside the three terms teachers already teach.

MOESCI-3-2.1 / ARB-3-1.4 / MTH-8-2.2 / DGT-8-1.3 / HLS-Y2-BIO-041 / CSE-Y3-SD-112 / SUS-CORE-B
GeneralShariahBusinessCS & EngineeringHealth & Life0 hours added
The open shelf

Context for the day a student asks why.

Beside the kits, an open shelf for every teacher: the Kingdom in thirteen regions, the sustainability challenges in plain words, the Saudi Green Initiative, Vision 2030, the SDGs localized.

ATLASSaudi Arabia in 13 regions
PRIMERThe Kingdom's challenges
EXPLAINERSaudi Green Initiative
EXPLAINERVision 2030 & sustainability
POSTERSThe SDGs, localized
CALENDARNational campaigns
2026 to 2028

What happens between now and the next VNR.

2026
Build

The bank and the training take shape with pilot schools, region by region content commissioning, and the essentials core locked.

2027
Deliver

Rollout region by region across the Kingdom, water modules landing with the Year of Water, demand data steering each term's commissioning.

2028
Report

A quarter of a million teachers, sustainability-ready, reported in the Kingdom's next Voluntary National Review.

The pilot needs one region
and one term. Yours?

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