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The California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI), led by Ten Strands, works statewide with guidance from a leadership council to create systems change in support of environmental literacy with a focus on access, equity, and cultural relevance for all students.

What Can We Do Right Here, Right Now? Bringing Climate and Environmental Literacy into the Classroom: Insights from Tara Kajtaniak

For Tara Kajtaniak, educator at Alder Grove Charter School in Eureka and university supervisor at Cal Poly Humboldt, being deeply connected to the environment is rooted in her background. Growing...

Peaks and Valleys: A Landscape Study of Environmental Literacy in California’s TK–12 Classrooms

The recently released report, Peaks and Valleys: A landscape study of environmental literacy implementation in and out of California’s TK–12 classrooms, offers an in-depth look at the state of environmental...

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Momentum Continues with the Opening of the CAELI 2024–25 Season

Authored by: Andra Yeghoian, CAELI Project Director As the 2024–25 CAELI season gets underway, the CAELI leadership team looks forward to building on the momentum and successes of 2023–24 as...

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Dispatches from the Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange

Authored by: District Innovation Hub Members: Ellen Mc Clure and Nate Ivy On Sunday, February 4th, 2024 as representatives from Berkeley, Fremont, and Oakland Unified school districts began setting up...

Announcing CAELI’s “Call to Action: Educating for a Green Economy”

CAELI is proud to announce the publication of its “Call to Action: Educating for a Green Economy.” Green Career Innovation Hub co-lead Dana Richards, explains, “The Call is meant to...

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ELA Superheroes Podcast: Empowering Environmental Literacy Through English-Language Arts

Environmental literacy and justice belong in every California classroom, especially the core subject area of English Language Arts. With this fundamental idea in mind, members of the CAELI Professional Learning...

Green Horizons: Celebrating the Second COE Fellowship Cohort Graduation

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

Championing DEI in Environmental Learning with STEM4Real

As our planet has warmed and new technologies are needed to combat human-made climate change, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has become more intertwined with environmental learning. This interdisciplinary...

CAELI March Update: Our Innovation Hub Projects are Thriving!

As we edge closer to the final quarter of the 2023-24 school year, we’re thrilled to bring you a quick update on the many Innovation Hub projects. First, we had...

Designing for the Margins | Reflecting on CAELI’s Equity Journey

Looking back now, it’s hard to believe that CAELI’s focus on equity was not always inevitable. When CAELI emerged as a statewide project rooted in a 2015 Blueprint for Environmental...