Let's create continuous conversations about climate change education: Spreading the Sediment of Science!

Key Focus Areas

Framework for Shifting Paradigms in Climate Education

About the Key Focus Areas

There are 7 key focus areas to enhance climate and environmental education in PK-12, drawn from the current landscape and literature on teaching, learning, and research for climate and environmental literacy.

Interdisciplinary

Collaboration and integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines
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Transdisciplinary

Collaboration between diverse stakeholders and incorporating perspectives from various fields.
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Intersectional

Solutions are dynamic, innovative, intersectional, and interconnected endeavors .
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Centers Equity and Justice

Interplay between social, environmental, and racial justices and indigenous sovereignty .
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Honors Deep Community Knowledge

Practices and approaches that are evolving to reflect research-driven approaches and knowledge from multiple sources
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Activates Student Agency

Empowers students with essential skills, competencies, and dispositions necessary for active civic engagement and stewardship
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Cultivates 21st Century Skills

Empowers students with essential skills, competencies, and dispositions necessary for active civic engagement and stewardship
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