Just like you, pediatricians have witnessed a shift in how children spend their time: more and more screen time, more and more (over) scheduled activities, and more parental stress, including concerns about all kinds of safety in public spaces. All...
Ten Strands is a flagship, state-wide effort to promote environmental literacy in California schools. The front-line work of teachers, with the support of their school leadership, departments of education, and NGOs, is at the heart of all climate change education...
Last year, the California Youth Climate Policy (CYCP) Leadership Program hosted its inaugural cohort. The first cohort was a transformative platform for students to engage in meaningful climate policy work. The program’s pioneering efforts empowered California’s youth to take the...
It’s the first week of the school year, and I’m at Kids Creek Forest, one of our Learning Landscape properties identified by teachers and conserved by the Feather River Land Trust. I’m meeting with Lynee Crawford, a botanist and GIS...
Students are noticing extreme heat, flooding, wildfires, and other effects of climate change right in their communities. But our teachers do not have access to California-specific instructional materials on these topics. The good news: for the 2025–26 school year, that’s...
This summer, Ten Strands partnered with Sequoia Riverlands Trust and the Tulare County Office of Education to offer the first-ever SEED Summer Institute. The Sequoia Environmental Education Directive (SEED) was established in 2014 as a coalition of environmental education organizations...
You can teach some aspect of environmental literacy, justice, and action in any subject to any age student. —Climate Gen attendee Every year, the Climate Generation Summer Institute holds a three-day summit with climate change education leaders from across the...
Outdoor learning has taken on many meanings over the last hundred years, especially since the global pandemic. It can be seen as learning about local ecosystems, survival skills, agriculture, or simply taking the lesson that would otherwise be taught within...
As the school year comes to an end and summer is in full swing, we want to reflect and share all the resources that Ten Strands and our partners have created this year. From perspective articles that uplifted our community...
Over the past year and a half, Ten Strands has spearheaded initiatives that use an equity-informed and data-driven approach to scaling environmental and climate action in California schools. These efforts have focused on collecting data and compiling data sets focused...
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