Green Guardians is an Oakland-based start-up focused on environmental literacy and action. Ten Strands is providing consulting services for Green Guardians to develop standards-based lesson sequences that will support K–5 teachers to use culturally relevant, local, environmental themes as engaging contexts for teaching science, history-social science, English language arts, and other subjects. Ten Strands, the California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI), and Green Guardians also partnered to build a the CAELI Community-Based Partner Hub connecting California county offices of education and community-based partners in order to increase access to impactful environment-based learning for all of California’s K–12 students.
Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program
The State of California invested $6 million to create curricular resources to help teachers promote students’ understanding of climate change and environmental justice, leading to action in their communities. The units will…
California Environmental Literacy Initiative
The California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI), led by Ten Strands, works statewide with guidance from a Leadership Council to create systems change in support of ensuring that all students have access to…