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Environmental and Climate Justice Storytellers Website

The Future of Climate Change Education in America

How can scientific ocean drilling's professional development be enhanced to develop critical scientific and transdisciplinary skills for educators?

Climate Action: Designing with Policy in Mind

Climate Education, Communication & Outreach Stakeholders Community

Climate Storytelling Workshop

Climate Storytellers Participant Pack

Climate Storytellers Collective

Setting the ACE national context in the U.S.

How can the community review the US ACE Framework?

Implementing the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) agenda at multiple scales to accelerate climate action

Developing a national strategic plan for action for climate empowerment in the United States

Resetting the Futures Knowledge Jam, Diverse Futures Forum, UNESCO Futures Literacy Summit 2020

Empowering Climate Action in the United States with Co-Editors/Authors Dr. Deb Morrison and Tom Bowman

BIPOC Climate Justice Dialogue

Engaging the people in just climate action

Equitable, empowering, and inclusive participatory policy design strategies to accelerate just climate action, adaptation, and resilience

Building capacity, momentum and a culture of climate action in the United States

Will the Canada-U.S. climate meeting accelerate community empowerment?

North American Association for Environmental Education

BIPOC Climate Justice Dialogues

US ACE Coalition

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)

Environmental Defense Fund

Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

Institute for Multidisciplinary Ecological Research in the Salish Sea (IMERSS)

Climate Education Reform BC

One Island, One Earth

ṮEṮÁĆES Climate Action Project Course 3: Climate Change in the Salish Sea Archipelago

A 5 day curriculum combining climate science with Traditional Knowledge of the W̱SÁNEĆ people, focused on the San Juan and Gulf Islands

ṮEṮÁĆES Climate Action Project

A multi-day educational program that combined current climate science with Traditional Knowledge of the W̱SÁNEĆ people

ṮEṮÁĆES Revitalization Project

A project featuring educational videos that share W̱SÁNEĆ Traditional Knowledge with Southern Gulf Island communities

West Coast Climate Action Network

Website for a project bringing together hundreds of community climate action organizations to network, resource, learn, and act together

Wildfire and Climate Change in the Gulf Islands

Videos and slides of conversations about wildfire and climate change mitigation and resilience within the Southern Gulf Islands

Inventory of Federal Climate Engagement and Capacity-building Programs

A 2023 updated inventory and database of existing federal climate education programs for strategic planning and implementation

Analysis of a Phase I Inventory of Federal Climate Education, Engagement, Workforce Development and Training Programs

A 2022 inventory and database of existing federal climate education programs for strategic planning and implementation

Morrison and international team highlight climate justice at COP27

News article describing the collaborative work and learning outcomes of the Climate Justice Pavilion at COP27

UNESCO Roadmap for Implementing the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development

A paper outlining priority action areas, implementation ideas, and monitoring methods for an educational response to climate issues

Education 2030: Incheon Declaration and Framework for Action for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning

A paper outlining goals, approaches, indicators, and implementation methods towards promoting free, equitable education for all

Education for sustainable development: a roadmap

A paper outlining ESD for 2030 priority areas, implementation ideas, and monitoring methods for an educational response to climate issues

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A foundational and historic international treaty detailing the rights and freedoms of all humans signed in 1948

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

An international environmental treaty designed to fight anthropogenic climate change signed by 154 states at Earth Summit in 1992

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

A UN resolution document that defines the rights of Indigenous peoples, including identity, language, employment, health, and education

Paris Agreement

A legally binding international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015 designed to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius

Glasgow work programme on Action for Climate Empowerment

A framework for country-level action to help with implementation of Action for Climate Empowerment

Action for Empowerment: Guidelines for Accelerating Solutions Through Education, Training and Public Awareness

Policy paper that describes the history of ACE and guidelines for countries as they implement the six facets of the program

Integrating action for climate empowerment into nationally determined contributions: a short guide for countries

A research brief that helps countries implement UN ACE ideals by providing concrete target examples for each ACE element

Future pathways for action for climate empowerment (ACE)

A research brief that gives an overview and critique of the UN ACE program, proposing strategies for improving implementation

ACE = Action for Climate Empowerment

A website that gives an overview of Engage4Climate’s work on the ACE program and resources for climate civics

Justice and Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE): Guidance for Equitable Capacity-Building and Justice-Centered Implementation

A research brief that describes specific ways to do UN Action for Climate Empowerment work through a lens of justice and human rights

Social Justice in the Science Classroom

NSTA blog for educators describing an overview of cultural aspects of science and resources for social-justice based learning

Building Teacher Professional Learning Infrastructure for Climate Justice Education

NSTA article for educators describing design principles and programmatic examples of climate justice professional learning for teachers

Exploring Climate Justice Learning: Visions, Challenges, and Opportunities

NSTA editorial article for educators providing an overview of rationale and resources for engaging students in climate justice learning

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy & Climate Justice

Professional learning session for educators focused on K-12 teachers engaging in self-work and designing justice-centered science curriculum

Teaching for Climate Justice and Student Action

Professional learning session for educators focused on K-12 teachers helping students engage in climate activism in hopeful, real-world ways

It's Not Only About the Content: People, Culture, and Processes within Climate Justice Education

Professional learning session for educators focused on storytelling, developing a network, and frameworks for community climate justice

Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education

Professional learning session for educators focused on defining environmental justice and ways that scientists and K-12 schools can partner

Centering environmental and climate justice in education

Professional learning session for educators focused on defining climate justice and selecting justice-based phenomena for PK-12 learning

Pedagogical Commitments for Climate Justice Education

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on PK-12 exploration of Indigenous knowledges and Black feminist geographi

Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on partnerships between university scientists, K-12, and the community

It's Not Only About the Content

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on a nonprofit building regional networks for teacher learning

Teaching for Climate Justice and Student Action

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on high school curriculum resources and student activism

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy and Climate Justice

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on educator reflection and UN Sustainable Development Goals curriculum

Sustaining Community-School Relationships Around Shared Visions of Climate Justice and Science Teaching

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on community-school partnership and curriculum-based examples of action

Community Climate Justice Education

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on EJ history, communication with families, and teacher activism

Keeping Climate Science Learning and Instruction Focused on Creating Solutions and Building Community Resilience

One-page practitioner brief that describes reasons and resources for focusing on actionable ways to frame climate science learning

Identifying local environmental justice phenomena for science and engineering investigations

One-page practitioner brief that gives specific examples of and tools for environmental justice-centered science learning

Focusing Science and Engineering Learning on Justice-Centered Phenomena across PK-12

One-page practitioner brief that describes rationale for and specific examples of justice-centered science learning

How can you advance equity and justice through science teaching?

One-page practitioner brief that provides seven intersecting equity lenses to guide teaching science towards social justice

How place-based science education strategies can support equity for students, teachers, and communities

One-page practitioner brief that provides rationale and strategies for learning around local science phenomena and community issues

Navigating the Political Dimensions of Climate Change Teaching and Learning

One-page practitioner brief that prepares educators for political challenges to discussing climate change in the classroom

Addressing controversial science topics in the K-12 classroom

One-page practitioner brief that provides rationale and strategies for discussing socially controversial science topics in K-12 classrooms

Designing Climate Change Learning for Action

One-page brief that provides rationale and strategies for engaging in action-oriented K-12 climate change learning despite challenges

How Learning about Kaitoku Can Increase Climate Consciousness

Swirls of discolored water are signs of activity from the underwater volcano.

Using Theatrical Performance to Promote Climate Justice

One-hour webinar about community climate justice learning focused on visual and performing arts with study of socio-ecological histories

ACESSE Resources

Clime time covid adaptations

STEM Teaching Tools

Inclusive scientific meetings: Where to start

Washington ClimeTime 2018-19 Case Study Report

Policy Briefs

peer reviewed research journals

The Feedback Loop: Using Formative Assessment Data for Science Teaching and Learning

Teaching core practices in teacher education

Teacher participation in formative assessment practice with learning progressions

Handbook of Formative Assessment, Volume Two. New York, NY: Routledge

Improving K-12 STEM Education Outcomes through Technological Integration

Possibilities in Practice: Social Justice Teaching in the Disciplines

Power Equity and Redesign

Critical Race Spatial Analysis

Empowering Climate Action in The United States