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Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program
Opportunity for California K–8 Teachers Test engaging, student-centered, and solutions-oriented K–12 climate change and environmental justice instructional resources in your classroom Be a cutting-edge leader in your school site Shape
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Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program
Filling a Gap in Students’ Education “Things in our backyard were drying up. Summers have been super hot or unnaturally cold. I’m seeing the world around me change.” —California student
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California Environmental Literacy Initiative
The California Environmental Literacy Initiative (CAELI), led by Ten Strands, works statewide with guidance from a Membership Council to create systems change in support of ensuring that all students have
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Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Projects
Ten Strands partners with the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems and key entities to advance PK–12 climate and environmental literacy, justice, and action through this
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Outdoor Learning Initiatives
Ten Strands’ outdoor learning initiatives intend to make safe and healthy outdoor learning spaces widely available to TK–12 students as a positive, accessible, hopeful, and powerful resource. NATIONAL COVID-19 OUTDOOR
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Technical Assistance Services for Environmental and Climate Action Initiatives
Ten Strands offers Technical Assistance Services that support education-focused organizations to design and implement environmental and climate action initiatives that take place across the campus, curriculum, community, and overall culture
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Youth Engagement Initiatives
Ten Strands leads or supports several youth engagement initiatives that aim to empower youth environmental and climate action. THE CALIFORNIA YOUTH CLIMATE POLICY (CYCP) LEADERSHIP PROGRAM This youth leadership program—a
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Sustainable and Climate-Ready Schools
Ten Strands and UndauntedK12 work together on initiatives that center on decarbonizing every school building to ensure that school buildings and grounds are resilient and can support student health, safety,
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Data Initiative for Environmental and Climate Action in California’s TK–12 Schools
The environmental literacy and sustainable and climate-resilient schools movement in California is transitioning between laying foundational elements for broad-scale change and moving toward taking implementation to scale in every school
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Environmental Principles and Concepts
California’s Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) have a timely and relevant place in our state frameworks. Background: In 2003, the California Education and the Environment Initiative, Assembly Bill 1548, was
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Education and the Environment Initiative Curriculum
The California Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) Curriculum is a powerful, state board of education-approved instructional resource that helps educators teach to state standards in science* and history–social science
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San Mateo Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship
The Environmental Solutionary Teacher Fellowship (ESTF)—formerly known as the San Mateo Environmental Collaborative (SMELC)—is built around four key elements of professional learning: knowledge, action, accountability and reflection, and connection to