Bellwether
Teacher Pensions & Social Security
Project scrapbook
About our partners
Bellwether Education Partners are a nonprofit organisation focused on dramatically changing the American education system to allow every individual the ability to determine their own path and lead a productive and fulfilling life, regardless of race, ethnicity, and income.
The challenge
In the US today approximately 1.2 million teachers, spread across 15 states, aren’t covered by Social Security. Astonishingly, over half of new teachers will not qualify for a pension at all, and for those who do qualify, many will receive pensions worth less than their own contributions. We had to make a two minute film telling the story of Social Security, how it still varies across states and what impact that has on teachers and saving for their retirement.
The film
Our 'explainer video' for Bellwether Education Partners uses crisp attention-grabbing, black line drawings, with punchy accent colours on a bright white background and a clear voice-over track. This style is coherent, clean and incredibly engaging and helps tell the story of how the social security exclusion came about, what it means for teachers, and what actions can be taken to make teacher retirement plans portable by default, to provide all teachers with financially secure benefits.
The context
Chegg supports students to study better, learn more in less time and achieve better grades. This takes a wide range of tools and solutions, but when it comes to challenging and hard-to-grasp topics, like those found in science, nothing beats an explainer video.
Zone 2e is helping 2e students overcome these challenges by leveraging their strengths. Our creative team explained how Zone 2e supports twice-exceptional students in this explainer video.
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UCL Changing Minds want to help organisations harness the full power of behavioural science, transforming the way they work. We worked with UCL Changing Minds to help share what they do with the world.
Most funding agencies consider research impacts an important factor. Communicating impact is a skill in its own right and University College Dublin have created the Impact Toolkit to provide valuable guidance on explaining impact.
Cynthia Hall and the Karyn Purvis Institute came to us to create a whiteboard animation highlighting the critical issue of human trafficking and the situations that can lead to someone becoming trafficked.
The Berkhamsted Schools Group develop remarkable people, helping their pupils to not only earn a living but also to live lives worth living. We worked with the Berkhamsted to bring their educational vision to the screen in this whiteboard animation.
Your child’s first day of school is a big moment, for you as well as them. Written by Emma Robinson and read by Sir Ken Robinson, Dear Teacher is a powerful and moving insight into the emotions of a parent on their child’s first day.
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Since 1934 The British Council have made a contribution to the UK and over 100 other countries. As part of their mission they have created a web content series with Soho Impact called ‘Creativity in the Digital Age’.