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Teaching with Storylines that Call Students In

Posted By  Kim Fortun , Prerna Srigyan , Nadine Tanio , Margaret Tebbe
  • ON February 16, 2023
EcoGovLab takes you on a journey to understand its undergraduate anthropology class, Environmental Injustice, which uses a “storylining” approach for students to explore their climate journey....
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Cultivating Love of Place and Planting Seeds for Lifelong Civic Engagement with California’s Young Learners

Posted By  Adriana Castro , Tara Stafford Ocansey
  • ON January 18, 2023
Our Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program (CCEJP) partner, the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), has been proactively supporting teachers to integrate sustainability and environmental learning into every child’s K–12 learning experience. We share a story by CELF’s Tara Stafford...
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Ten Years at Ten Strands: Transforming Environmental Student Learning in California

Posted By  Karen Cowe
  • ON January 4, 2023
Ten Strands CEO Karen Cowe reflects on her first ten years at Ten Strands. She has been pivotal in leading the organization and the state to ensure that students across California are equipped with the knowledge necessary to create healthy...
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The Power of Story: Building Connection, Understanding, Agency, and Hope

Posted By  Teresa Barnett , Eric Havel , Helen Fitzmaurice , Kate Gallagher
  • ON November 16, 2022
Meet the CCEJP Writing Team for Grades 3-5! The CRS-OTACA team brings together classroom teachers and informal educators, scientists, and community partners with a shared reverence for the power of storytelling....
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The Carbon Almanac: Real Change Requires Hope, Connection, and Smart Strategies

Posted By  Mary Perry
  • ON November 3, 2022

Change can be hard. That’s true for us individually but it’s even more true when we’re trying to change the systems in which our work, including education, takes place. California’s approach to curriculum and instruction offers a case in point....

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Launching Ten Strands’ Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program for Students

Posted By  Roni Jones
  • ON October 20, 2022

Earlier this summer, Ten Strands convened the community- and student-centered organizations selected to create curricular resources that will help teachers increase their students’ understanding of climate change and environmental justice, leading to impactful action in their communities as part of...

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Building Community at Presidio Tunnel Tops

Posted By  Christy Rocca
  • ON October 6, 2022

The Presidio of San Francisco, which serves the community with outdoor experiences and acts as a hub for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, was given a golden opportunity: a necessary highway redesign resulted in a chance to add 14...

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Statement of Purpose: Collaborating to Support Teachers and Students

Posted By  Jeffrey Dowling
  • ON October 6, 2022

In my first year of teaching I worked at a small public school in the Oakland Unified School District. The school included both middle and high school and in that first year I taught middle school physical science, high school...

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The Case for a Tripartite Strategy to Adult Environmental Education and Service Programs

Posted By  Gregory Ira
  • ON July 7, 2022

The mission of Ten Strands is to strengthen the partnerships and strategies that will bring environmental literacy to all of California’s K–12 students. I believe strongly in this mission and like many have benefited from the work of Ten Strands....

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Statement of Purpose: Striving For Educational Equity

Posted By  Ten Strands
  • ON July 7, 2022

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin One of my favorite spots in the Pacific Northwest, where I’m from, is a small Seattle neighborhood known as Mt....

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