Our Work

The California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI), led by Ten Strands, supports efforts to increase awareness, build capacity, and strengthen the statewide ecosystem for prioritizing and implementing high quality environmental education

Ten Strands’ outdoor learning initiatives intend to make safe and healthy outdoor learning spaces widely available to TK–12 students as a positive, accessible, hopeful, and powerful resource. Campaign for Outdoor

Developed in response to teacher and community demand, Seeds to Solutions™ is a set of free, solutions-oriented, age-appropriate instructional resources on California environmental issues for grades K–12. Learn more and

Ten Strands works with partners on initiatives that focus on transitioning school buildings, grounds, and operations to be sustainable and resilient. This ensures that campuses can support students’ health, safety,

The Data Initiative for Environmental and Climate Action in California’s TK–12 Schools helps provide an understanding of the scale of California’s TK–12 education system, issues related to equity and need,

Ten Strands leads or supports several youth engagement initiatives that aim to empower youth environmental and climate action. California Youth Environmental Data Leadership Program Ten Strands is excited to launch

Ten Strands offers Technical Assistance Services that support education-focused organizations to design and implement environmental and climate action initiatives that take place across the campus, curriculum, community, and overall culture

On September 15, 2015, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson released the much anticipated A Blueprint for Environmental Literacy: Educating Every California Student In, About and For the Environment at

Ten Strands is proud to be a founding partner of the National Outdoor Learning Initiative (NOLI), a collective impact project focused on creating safe and healthy outdoor learning spaces at

Ten Strands partners with the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems and key entities to advance PK–12 climate and environmental literacy, justice, and action through this

Ten Strands’ outdoor learning initiatives intend to make safe and healthy outdoor learning spaces widely available to TK–12 students as a positive, accessible, hopeful, and powerful resource. Campaign for Outdoor

California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) have a timely and relevant place in our state frameworks. Background: In 2003, the California Education and the Environment Initiative, Assembly Bill 1548, was

The California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Curriculum is a powerful, state board of education-approved instructional resource that helps educators teach to state standards in science* and history–social science

The Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship (ESTF)—formerly known as the San Mateo Environmental Collaborative (SMELC)—is built around four key elements of professional learning: knowledge, action, accountability and reflection, and connection to

The September 2018 Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) brought together leaders from around the world to showcase the achievements of states, regions, cities, companies, and citizens with respect to climate