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Statement of Purpose: Transforming California’s Educational System

Posted By  Amy Frame
  • ON September 1, 2022

I first understood that something was very wrong when I saw that the 2015 Sustainable City pLAn had exactly zero mentions of K–12 education in it, despite its focus on “Transforming Los Angeles: Environment, Economy, Equity.” My professor, the first...

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California’s Hub for Environmental Learning and Action (CHELA) Connects Passion with Location

Posted By  Thomas Herman
  • ON August 24, 2021

California’s Hub for Environmental Learning and Action (CHELA) is a new website resource for inquiry- and place-based learning on topics related to environmental literacy and environmental justice. It is designed to leverage the power of geospatial technologies to accelerate environmental...

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Climate Champions—For Ourselves, Our Future, Our Planet

Posted By  Nan Renner
  • ON July 22, 2021

Launched in spring 2020, the Climate Champions pilot project, based at the University of California, San Diego, models K–12, university, and community collaboration for climate action and climate justice. It was inspired and informed by the Environmental and Climate Change...

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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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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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A Year in Review: Thank You for Being Part of This Journey!

Posted By  Karen Cowe
  • ON December 3, 2020

In a letter to Ten Strands’ community, CEO Karen Cowe reflects on the challenges and accomplishments of 2020 and expresses appreciation for all partners and supporters who have been part of this journey towards statewide K–12 environmental literacy.

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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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