A swift move into outdoor learning may well be the only way that school districts can reopen safely with maximum enrollment while minimizing risk.
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Families
Environmental Literacy: A K–12 Experience
Parent Michele Whiteaker reflects on the importance of ecoliteracy as part of her son’s K-12 education. She explains how outdoor experiences can be integrated into every subject of every grade, with students exploring and problem-solving along the way, so that environmental literacy can impact students in a lasting way.
EdSource Podcast: Youth Leader Isha Clarke and Ten Strands CEO Karen Cowe
Young people from around the globe have taken to the streets–and to the United Nations–to protest adult inaction on climate change. In this episode, EdSource takes a look at how students and teachers in California are helping to raise awareness and shape action in the fight against global warming.
The Important Impact Environmental Literacy Has on Kids—and How Parents Can Support It
In this Q&A, Michele shares her experiences with environmental literacy in schools, and the ways she says parents across California can help encourage the important outcomes this type of learning provides.
This Is Environmental Literacy: Pajaro
The students, once again, have the answer: our charge is to hear them, and join in the work of enacting the solutions. Please take a moment and listen to their voices.
This Is Environmental Literacy: Rialto
The history of this place, and the story of what Ms. Chan and the district are doing to provide effective student-centered learning are inexorably intertwined, and illustrate another instance of how district-level support, committed educators, and community partnerships—working in concert with a place itself—enhance student engagement and support student success. Environmental literacy is woven throughout their innovative strategy to serve their students.
This Is Environmental Literacy: Plumas County
My next 48 hours in Plumas County provides many deep and powerful lessons on the meaning of place, of place-based learning, of public education and the public trust, and of community.