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Feb. 18, 2021 Newsletter
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We feature Dr. Kelley Le, program director at the University of California, Irvine Science Project, and author of the upcoming book Teaching Climate Change for Grades 6-12: Empowering Science Teachers to Take on the Climate Crisis Through NGSS. Dr. Le...
Reimagining Science Education with Climate Change
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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...
Jan. 26, 2021 Newsletter
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Our new interim director of equity and inclusion, Celeste Royer, describes her life and career experiences that make up her journey so far in centering equity in the movement to build environmental literacy in California.
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A Journey to Centering Equity
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A few months ago, I was speaking to my friend Julian Agyeman from Tufts University. I mentioned to him that I was newly retired from my full-time job but that I was still active in numerous environmental literacy initiatives related...
Jan. 13, 2021 Newsletter
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Dr. Leena Bakshi, founder of STEM4REAL, a nonprofit professional learning organization committed to combining STEM content learning with principles of equity and social justice, discusses why we should teach about environmental justice and shares five steps for creating antiracist environmental...
Can the Environment Be Racist?
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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...
Dec. 15, 2020 Newsletter
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Naomi Stern, green facilities and operations analyst at the San Mateo County Office of Education, shares her experience participating in SMELC in prior years, how the institute shifted to a virtual format this year, and how hands-on project-based learning can...
Remote Solutionaries: A Story of Transformation from SMELC Community Partner to SMELC Facilitator
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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...