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San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative 2.0
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Last week Ten Strands and the San Mateo County Office of Education—STEM Center hosted the second iteration of the San Mateo Environmental Learning Collaborative (SM ELC), a professional learning workshop for San Mateo county teachers. The SM ELC brought together...
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July 2016 Newsletter
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Thanks to grants from the Pisces Foundation, the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, and the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, Ten Strands is providing project leadership and management to the Environmental Literacy Steering Committee.
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Incorporating nature—and hope—into STEM Education with Biomimicry
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Mention frog mucus to a group of tenth-graders and you might expect to hear a collective “yuck.” To a class of sophomores from Kearny High’s School of Engineering, Innovation and Design in San Diego, the slimy substance on frogs’ skin...
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A Hopeful Blueprint for Environmental Literacy
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Back in April I had the opportunity to talk about the importance of environmental literacy in front of the California Legislative Black Caucus, along with Will Parish from Ten Strands and Gina Fromer from the Trust for Public Land. My...
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The Power of Local Context and #EnviroLiteracy
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Last week I attended ChangeScale’s 2nd Annual Environmental Literacy Congress. Beyond just learning from the presentations, I had a true ‘aha’ moment when I looked around at all the different organizations being represented and realized that environmental literacy is not...
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Why environmental literacy? A Teacher’s Perspective.
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When I teach environmental literacy in my class I feel like I am opening a door for students to walk through. This door opens to empowerment, knowledge, and stewardship. Children want to be big thinkers. The more I challenge them...
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Climate Change Communication and Environmental Literacy
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Today my team at Ten Strands and I were pondering the bubble we live in here in the Bay Area. In general, everyone we talk to and work with seems to understand that climate change is a pressing issue that...
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March 2016 Newsletter
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We are excited to share Ten Strands’ 2015 Annual Report.
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