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There is Always an Environmental Context: A Los Angeles Professional Learning Collaborative

Posted By  Dr. Virginia Vandergon , Jeannie Chipps
  • ON July 31, 2018

Introduction The San Fernando Valley Science Project (SFVSP) recently hosted a two-week summer institute for middle and high school science teachers focused on incorporating the California Environmental Principles & Concepts (EP&Cs) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) into classroom lessons....

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A Transformative Experience: Students and Nature

Posted By  Dr. Al Mijares
  • ON July 2, 2018

Outside the urban glare of Los Angeles, we found a night sky packed with stars and a still silence interrupted only by the wind’s whisper and the chatter of crickets and frogs. It was different, yet familiar. My father packed...

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A Ten Strands Field Trip to Dixie Elementary

Posted By  Antonia Smith
  • ON June 5, 2018

It is a beautiful Friday morning in May when Ten Strands team members Karen Cowe, Ariel Whitson, Mike Howe, and I arrive at Dixie Elementary School in San Rafael, California. After gathering in front of the school’s jungle gym playground,...

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Reflections on the Alameda Elementary Environmental Literacy Summer Institute 2017

Posted By  Betsy Mitchell , Joanna Totino
  • ON March 5, 2018

“This was a wonderful week—fun balanced with lots of things to take away and try with my kids … a much deeper appreciation of environmental literacy.” The first of three planned Elementary Environmental Literacy Summer Institutes was presented to K–5...

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When Animals are the Teachers

Posted By  Bruce Holaday
  • ON February 16, 2018

As a child growing up on a small lake in the Midwest, I spent my summer days in a little wooden dinghy exploring and learning about my wild neighbors: the muskrats, sunfish, bass, snakes, minnows, turtles, waterfowl, snails, and more....

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Prioritizing Environmental Literacy to Achieve District Goals

Posted By  Tony Knight, EdD
  • ON February 6, 2018

This week’s blog post is written by Tony Knight, EdD, Superintendent of the Oak Park Unified School District and Environmental Literacy Steering Committee (ELSC) member. About his district, Dr. Knight writes: The Oak Park Unified School District is a place...

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Why I Teach About Birds

Posted By  Darrell Steely
  • ON January 22, 2018

ALSO READ: Fun Family Activity-Attracting Hummingbirds from Porch.com “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced” ― David Attenborough “Can you see the small gray bird on the...

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Leveraging the CREEC Community to Strengthen Environmental Literacy

Posted By  Crystal Howe
  • ON January 2, 2018

The first weekend of December marked a high-point in my work as a California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) coordinator. Thanks to the support of Ten Strands and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, I attended my first CREEC Professional Learning Conference...

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Partnering for Equitable Environmental Literacy: A Conversation with Youth Outside

Posted By  Alison Cagle
  • ON November 20, 2017

When we speak of environmental literacy for all, that “all” encompasses the vast diversity that makes up California’s 6.2 million K–12 public school population. Just as biodiversity creates more resilient ecosystems in the natural world, California’s diversity is one of...

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Watching Whales and Weaving Environmental Literacy into History-Social Science Lessons

Posted By  Shelley Brooks, PhD
  • ON September 12, 2017

We couldn’t have asked for a better setting for our environmental literacy retreat. Thanks to Ten Strands and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, regional site directors from the California History–Social Science Project had the opportunity to gather in mid August in...

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