Climate Change Education
Regional Climate Change Education Support
Climate Generation’s Regional Education Program builds capacity for localizing climate change and climate justice education in K-12 ecosystems. We work with non-profit organizations, schools and districts, government agencies, and individuals, to share experiences, build knowledge, understand and remove barriers, and reimagine systems that support climate justice education at the regional level.
Non-Profit Organizations
Schools
Individuals
Government Agencies
Districts
REGIONAL EDUCATION SUPPORT
What we do
Connect and convene stakeholders to affect systemic change in the climate justice movement through consistent, accessible, and action-oriented education.
Facilitate professional learning communities to bring together educators to co-construct knowledge for their practice in collaboration with peers, colleagues, and other individuals who are situated locally.
Single and multi-day workshops to increase climate literacy of educators through hands-on place-based activities featuring Climate Generation’s curriculum materials.
Year-round climate change education support to provide 1:1 or small group coaching, informal mentorship, etc. to increase educator confidence and self efficacy.
Single and multi-day working groups to develop a workshop curriculum or create individualized curriculum.
Current Project
MN Schools as Climate Solutions Fellowship
Schools are not only sites for learning about climate change, they can also teach through example by leading in climate solutions! Climate Generation is supporting a professional fellowship of 12 interdisciplinary Minnesota educators who want to support their schools in leading on climate solutions.This fellowship will gather in person and virtually over January-May 2025 to cultivate spaces for learning, sharing, and problem-solving as each fellow develops or strengthens an action plan for a school-based climate solution.
Examples of Our Work
We facilitated two workshops centered around quality climate change education practices featuring our Minnesota’s Changing Climate curriculum for formal and nonformal educators from Illinois. Educators explored concrete examples of how to adapt the Minnesota’s Changing Climate curriculum to Illinois.
We facilitated hybrid training to a group of ten interdisciplinary teachers for junior and senior grades at School of Environmental Students in Apple Valley, Minnesota. Educators participated in a series of listening calls and workshops geared toward integrating climate change education and project-based education into their curricula.
We facilitated four virtual training sessions with the middle school department to support Wardlaw and Hartridge School’s implementation of an interdisciplinary Climate Change Week. Educators took part in listening sessions, interactive workshops, and individual lesson plan coaching in order to create a week’s worth of climate change lessons in their subject area.
We worked with Lowell School for two years to design, implement, and assess a plan for integrating climate change across the sixth grade humanities curriculum. Students demonstrated an increase in understanding of all topics and increased engagement in the content matter.