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Current Events in the Classroom

Posted By  Shelley Brooks, PhD
  • ON April 13, 2021

I am writing about the Current Context: A Focus on the Environment series, an environment-based current events classroom resource, at an exciting time. The series began in 2017, and all 18 issues were published during Trump’s presidency, when there was...

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Environmental Education Behind the Redwood Curtain

Posted By  Olivia Kernen
  • ON March 31, 2021

Greetings from Humboldt County! We are located 300 miles north of San Francisco and serve nearly 18,000 students across 4,000 square miles of beautiful redwoods, isolated beaches, and the Northern Coast Ranges. Our isolated rural county is a land of...

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Climate Champions: Collaborative Learning for Climate Action 

Posted By  Nan Renner
  • ON March 8, 2021

Tackling the climate crisis requires creating climate champions of all ages—people who are educated on climate science, passionate about addressing the climate crisis, and engaged in concrete efforts to “bend the curve” of global warming. This is why Climate Champions...

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A COVID-19 Story in Three Acts: The Origin of the LAUSD-Skyhook Eco-Vans

Posted By  Gerardo (Gerry) Salazar
  • ON February 19, 2021

Prologue: Costa Rica Early morning walks to meet the preschool microbús are my earliest memories of engaging the natural world. The sun was usually bright, but the pavement was wet from the predawn rain that routinely showered our suburb in...

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Reimagining Science Education with Climate Change

Posted By  Dr. Kelley Lê
  • ON February 16, 2021

Eight. This was the percentage of students from the Title 1 high school I attended in Los Angeles who enrolled in and completed a degree at a four-year university. My senior class had nearly 1,000 students at the beginning of...

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Can the Environment Be Racist?

Posted By  Leena Bakshi
  • ON January 4, 2021

Take a moment to go outside and inhale a whopping breath of air. Do you take in a breath of fresh air or do you in fact take in a breath of fresh pollution? The answer to this question lies...

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Remote Solutionaries: A Story of Transformation from SMELC Community Partner to SMELC Facilitator

Posted By  Naomi Stern
  • ON December 14, 2020

When I entered the Tree Rooms for the first day of the San Mateo County Office of Education’s (SMCOE) San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative (SMELC) institute in summer 2017, I knew some of what to expect. I knew I would...

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Using Environmental Literacy as the Through Line, All Standards All Students: A Focus on Equity and Access

Posted By  Margaret (Peggy) Harte, MEd
  • ON November 17, 2020

“Research shows that weaving together science and language development can increase students’ academic performance in reading, writing, and science simultaneously.” ~ Sarah Feldman and Verónica Flores Malagon, “Unlocking Learning: Science as a Lever for English Learner Equity” The path that...

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Environmental Education and NGSS in an Era of Uncertainty

Posted By  Juanita Chan , Lizbeth Mariscal
  • ON October 15, 2020

Environmental issues lend themselves to cross-disciplinary integrative learning and science teachers are central to the effort to bring environmental literacy to every California child. . . . At the heart of this broader integrative effort is three-dimensional science learning (NGSS)...

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Igniting the Imagination of Students

Posted By  Trena Noval , Ana Raquel Thomas
  • ON September 28, 2020

For the last 15 years, we have collaborated to create standards-aligned integrated learning models for environmental literacy and the arts in order to support issues of justice. Using these models in the classroom has ignited our students’ imaginations. In early...

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