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Local Education is Global Education

Posted By  Krista Croteau
  • ON March 6, 2025

“I have a dream.” These words are familiar and powerful. They shaped and continue to inspire a major American movement, but they’re also the words I used at Back to School Night this past August, as I met with the...

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Climate Education: A Sputnik Moment in Need of a Sputnik Response

Posted By  Ian Gilchrist , Lindsay Iversen
  • ON February 13, 2025

Preparing future generations is an essential step in the fight against climate change. It’s time to treat it like one. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit. With this one small satellite, the Soviets announced the opening of...

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California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts –A Cornerstone for Environmental Literacy in the State

Posted By  Gerald Lieberman, PhD
  • ON January 23, 2025

Let’s celebrate the 20th anniversary of California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs)! Why is this milestone worth celebrating? If you’re unfamiliar with California’s EP&Cs, don’t worry—you’re not alone. This is an opportunity to learn about something very important related to...

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Investing in a Data-Driven Approach to Going to Scale

Posted By  Ten Strands
  • ON June 5, 2024

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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Increase Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard as the Anchor to an NGSS-Aligned Ecosystem Unit

Posted By  Janneke Petersen
  • ON January 17, 2024
Discover Janneke's extensive experience in developing, field testing, and collaborating with Volunteer Expert Partners to support teachers in advocating for native planting projects at their respective schools by exploring more....
A network of air quality sensors blankets California, allowing students to pull data directly into CODAP to analyze their local air quality over time and/or compare it to air quality in a different part of the state (or country).

Modeling and Data Science Provide Insights for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change and Environmental Justice

Posted By  Daniel Damelin , Steve Roderick
  • ON November 16, 2023
Explore how Concord Consortium's STEM education technology research and development expertise is shaping how California students will discern and synthesize data. As a CCEJP anchor organization, Concord Consortium offers data tools and support to the curriculum writing teams so all...
BSCS project team members Elaine Klein and Candice Guy-Gaytán working with writing teams during the kickoff convening last summer in Sacramento.

Collaborating with Community Organizations to Support the Design of Locally Relevant Storylines

Posted By  Jean Flanagan , Elaine Klein
  • ON November 2, 2023
Learn about how BSCS’s strategies for highly collaborative curriculum development and justice-driven storylines are shaping California’s new climate and environmental justice curriculum that will launch in 2025!...
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Facing Change Together at the Climate Generation’s Summer Institute

Posted By  Mandy Breuer , Amy Frame
  • ON September 7, 2023
On July 19, Ten Strands hosted the California Cohort Day at Climate Generation’s Summer Institute for Climate Change Education, a three-day conference connecting educators to an engaged community seeking to build collective strength to inspire hope and action in our...
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Climate Justice Curriculum by Youth, for Youth

Posted By  Courtney Welsh
  • ON May 18, 2023
We’re proud to showcase the next story from the seventh-grade writing team in our Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program, Global Nomads Group....
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My Journey as a Solutionary

Posted By  Lela Ward
  • ON May 4, 2023
Today, we’re highlighting the story of Lela Ward, a teacher from Menlo Park City School District, who participated in our Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship (ESTF). ESTF brings together teachers, professional learning and academic standards experts, and community-based partners to integrate...
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