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Lessons Learned About Things I Thought I Knew: Bridging Community and Science Instruction

Posted By  Juanita Chan
  • ON November 29, 2017

I am a science teacher first and foremost, and I view my world through this lens though usually I don’t even recognize it is there. It also means that I ask a lot of questions, but my questions have served...

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An Important Milestone for Environmental Literacy with Assessment

Posted By  Gerald Lieberman, PhD
  • ON November 9, 2017

On November 8, 2017 California’s State Board of Education (SBE) approved a new California Science Test Blueprint—the next step in the process of fully implementing the state’s new science standards, the Next Generation Science Standards. This phase is a normal...

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Environmental Literacy in Los Angeles: NGSS Training for Environmental Education Providers

Posted By  Candice Dickens-Russell
  • ON November 6, 2017

The California Regional Environmental Education Community (CREEC) Network is a program of the California Department of Education to support environmental literacy of California’s students by providing teachers with access to high quality environmental education (EE) resources. In addition to being...

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Teaching for Sustainable Communities: Empowering Eco-Literate Global Citizens

Posted By  Emily M. Schell, Ed.D.
  • ON October 11, 2017

How can educators better understand and teach environmental literacy in our schools? With support from California’s Environmental Literacy Steering Committee and the California Subject Matter Projects, the California International Studies Project (CISP) created a new professional learning program to address...

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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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I Love It When a Plan—for Environmental Literacy—Comes Together

Posted By  Gerald Lieberman, PhD
  • ON September 6, 2017

The State Board of Education (SBE) officially adopted the EP&Cs (Environmental Principles and Concepts) in 2004 and they are an important piece of the curricular expectations for all California students. Teachers can introduce these EP&Cs through their many connections with...

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How Environment-Based Learning Encouraged Me to Master Next Generation Science Standards

Posted By  Katherin Konomi
  • ON August 29, 2017

Being an educator is not an easy job. In my short career in education I have learned how much education policy, standards, and frameworks can change. For me, the first change came with Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and now...

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CREEC Coordinators Connect Educators to Local Ecosystem

Posted By  Karen Swan , Deborah Bruns
  • ON August 23, 2017

“A free-flowing river—the last of its kind—winds through 80 miles of rich habitat. Down the western side of the Sierra Nevada and across the Central Valley, the Cosumnes River flows through farmland, pastures, rare oak woodlands, and wetlands that support...

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Environmental Literacy: One Teacher’s Journey Towards Implementation

Posted By  Kirsten Franklin
  • ON August 14, 2017

I enjoyed a much needed sojourn into the Eastern Sierras this summer. For two weeks, my husband, our two Queensland Heelers, and I cruised our truck camper in and out of the mountains north and south of Bridgeport, California. We...

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My Journey Through SM ELC: Environmental Literacy in the Kindergarten Classroom

Posted By  Carolina Orlando
  • ON August 9, 2017

As a kindergarten teacher, one of my goals at the beginning of each school year is to have my students reading and (hopefully!) writing by June. At the beginning of every year I realize what a monumental task it is...

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