About: CAELI

In November, CAELI members, Ten Strands staff, district leaders, and partners gathered in Pasadena for the annual Green California Schools and Higher Education Summit (GCSHE). This year’s Summit was marked...

Throughout the fall season, CAELI webinars have served as spaces for connection, shared learning, and inspiration for advancing environmental and climate literacy in TK–12 schools. Topics this fall were varied...

This fall marks the launch of a new season of CAELI-supported Communities of Practice (COPs), where county office of education leaders, district innovators, and community-based partners come together to advance...

This September marks a decade since the release of California’s “Blueprint for Environmental Literacy”—a vision that has grown into a statewide movement. For ten years, the CAELI network, with backbone...

As CAELI moves into a new phase of its evolution, we celebrate the leadership of outgoing CAELI co-chair Juanita Chan and welcome Nate Ivy as the new co-chair. Both have...

The ELA Superheroes Podcast series shares stories across California that are bringing environmental literacy into classroom instruction. Produced by CAELI’s Professional Learning Initiative, the episodes spotlight TK–12 educators who teach...

We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of the third CAELI COE Fellowship cohort, comprising six fellows from four county offices of education. This year marks another milestone in...

While environmental education often gets pigeonholed as just for science instruction, teaching about the environment is meant to be interdisciplinary. In California, no subject area holds sole responsibility for environmental...