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The Power of Place: Outdoor Core & the Mountain Kids of Plumas County
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It’s the first week of the school year, and I’m at Kids Creek Forest, one of our Learning Landscape properties identified by teachers and conserved by the Feather River Land Trust. I’m meeting with Lynee Crawford, a botanist and GIS...
August 22, 2024 Newsletter
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In this week’s newsletter, we’re excited to introduce the new K–12 instructional materials, Seeds to Solutions™! Developed through a partnership between Ten Strands and the San Mateo County Office of Education, this curriculum is designed to deepen students’ understanding of...
Coming next year: K–12 lessons on climate change and environmental justice
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Students are noticing extreme heat, flooding, wildfires, and other effects of climate change right in their communities. But our teachers do not have access to California-specific instructional materials on these topics. The good news: for the 2025–26 school year, that’s...
Statement of Purpose: The Beauty of Our World
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Statement of Purpose: Ten Strands continues to introduce its staff through statements of purpose that reveal the motivations and ambitions of their work. Today, we hear from Rachel Weisbrot, Ten Strands’ operations and program associate, whose environmental journey began with...
August 8, 2024 Newsletter
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We celebrate the success of the SEED Institute in Tulare County and highlight the new CCEE case study, ‘From Outages to Opportunities,’ which showcases how Santa Barbara Unified School District is transforming outages into opportunities by leading the way in...
Tulare County Hosts SEED Summer Institute to Build a Climate Literacy Framework
This summer, Ten Strands partnered with Sequoia Riverlands Trust and the Tulare County Office of Education to offer the first-ever SEED Summer Institute. The Sequoia Environmental Education Directive (SEED) was established in 2014 as a coalition of environmental education organizations...
July 25, 2024 Newsletter
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We share reflections and resources from the Climate Generation Summer Institute’s three-day summit, where global leaders in climate change education gathered. Ten Strands along with CAELI and The Lawrence Hall of Science released the report Peaks and Valleys: A Landscape...
Environmental Literacy Study Finds Promising Trends, Need for Additional Support in California Schools
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:July 25, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT:Ten StrandsCamille SolivaCommunications Specialistcsoliva@tenstrands.org The Lawrence Hall of ScienceMargot FreyMarketing Directornewsroom@berkeley.edu Environmental Literacy Study Finds Promising Trends, Need for Additional Support in California Schools Berkeley, CA – California educators have the experience and will...