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Outdoor Core and the Mountain Kids of Plumas County
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I have been working in the field of environmental and outdoor education and place-based learning in Plumas County, California, for the past 25 years. Plumas County is a rural mountainous region in the northeastern corner of the state. For the...
July 16, 2020 Newsletter
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This week we are sharing an article written by Kevin Malaekeh and Jack Galloway, high school students and founders of the Youth Climate Action Coalition. Their article highlights the need for environmental and climate change literacy within the education system...
A Youth-Led Coalition to Drive Climate Change Education and Action
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This article is part of our Youth Voices series. At Ten Strands we believe that young people have valuable perspectives and a critical role in shaping our society and our world. We recognize their power to drive dialogue and create...
June 25, 2020 Newsletter
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This week we are sharing an article written by Deedee Chao, a master’s student in community development at UC Davis. Deedee’s article describes a virtual charrette that took place on April 21 focused on environmental justice and environmental literacy within...
Connecting Environmental Justice and Environmental Literacy to Education
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On April 21, 2020, the California Subject Matter Project (CSMP) held a virtual environmental justice charrette. The charrette brought together CSMP leaders, environmental justice organizers and scholars, and student leaders with the goals of exploring the following questions: What is...
Notes from the Field: An Elementary District Describes Three Shifts in Supporting the Practice of Fieldwork
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This article originally appeared in GreenNotes, a publication of the Green Schools National Network, and was republished with permission. There’s no question that real work and research makes for more engaging learning. That’s never more obvious than when we put...
In Solidarity
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May 26, 2020 Newsletter
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This week we are sharing a story written by Dr. Virginia (Gini) Vandergon, director of the San Fernando Valley Science Project, about a professional learning institute attended by Los Angeles middle and high school teachers to learn how to integrate...