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December 2017 Newsletter
- ON December 12, 2017
This week’s newsletter imagines if the approximately 400,000 students who graduate from California’s public schools each year experienced environmental literacy along with science, math, and English language arts skills.
...Lessons Learned About Things I Thought I Knew: Bridging Community and Science Instruction
- 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...
Partnering for Equitable Environmental Literacy: A Conversation with Youth Outside
- ON November 20, 2017
When we speak of environmental literacy for all, that “all” encompasses the vast diversity that makes up California’s 6.2 million K–12 public school population. Just as biodiversity creates more resilient ecosystems in the natural world, California’s diversity is one of...
An Important Milestone for Environmental Literacy with Assessment
- 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...
Environmental Literacy in Los Angeles: NGSS Training for Environmental Education Providers
- 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...
Bioneers 2017: Revolution
- ON October 31, 2017
Western societies will, in the end, be subservient to the land and what it can provide and teach. . .we will never know ourselves until we know where we are on this land. ~Paul Hawken I was travelling, was halfway across...
California’s Champions: Remarks by Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- ON October 19, 2017
The following are excerpts from the keynote address Terry Tamminen, CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, gave at the California Science Teachers Association 2017 Conference in Sacramento on Friday, October 13, 2017. The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) is working around...
October 2017 Newsletter
- ON October 12, 2017
We discuss the third annual San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative where K–8 teachers came together to learn how to increase student engagement, cultivate cooperative group work, and develop their students’ critical thinking skills by teaching science using the local environment...