Professor of Education at the University of Washington fighting for a thriving, just world 🌿 Settler on Coast Salish Lands 🌿As a learning scientist, I promote and study equitable science education and climate / environmental justice education across scales of implementation.
#SciEd #TeachClimate #NGSS #NGSSchat #ClimateJustice #ClimateAction #ClimateEducation #STEM
Many appreciated my op-ed yesterday, as the important points & concrete examples resonated with them or rethink the #climatecrisis.
But a couple of folks have expressed the TINA (there is no alternative) attitude. In other words, 'my prosperity may destroy the biosphere but so what'. 👀
Hmm, I wonder where will they enjoy this prosperity when they can’t breathe the air, drink the water, food systems have collapsed, oceans acidified, stronger frequent storms & floods hit? 🤔
#climatechange
Coming back to share my comments from the ISLS2023 presidential session last month https://tannervea.org/2023/06/comments-at-isls-2023-presidential-session-reexamining-core-constructs-in-the-learning-sciences-building-bridges-to-sustain-our-community/
Are you an experienced social scientist interested in working with our One Conservancy Science team at The Nature Conservancy to lead an organizational-wide assessment of and help develop a program to integrate social and behavioural science into our conservation and climate work? If so, please consider joining us!
This is a global position so candidates from any of the 82 countries in which we work are welcome to apply. The link below has the full job description. (You have to go on LinkedIn to see it.)
Decolonizing Climate Coloniality
by Farhana Sultana
(short essay from Not Too Late)
#ClimateJustice
#ClimateColoniality
#Decolonization
#NotTooLate
https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/Sultana-Decolonizing-Climate-Coloniality-2023.pdf
As with all of our STEM Teaching Tools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others and to use during events! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd
Hi everyone: We just published a NEW STEM TEACHING TOOL that shows how to promote the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through community-centered approaches to #SciEd and #NGSS.
The resource links to supporting frameworks and includes tons of practical guidance for supporting ecological, human & economic health. The #SDGs are centered on social and multispecies justice. You can promote global equity by teaching in support of these #GlobalGoals.
The IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report released today. Here are the key takeaways and figures.
First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.
This was the first time I was giving an overview of this part of the collection—so it isn't the most refined presentation I've given. 😉 But if you want to just watch and learn about our ClimeTime and Climate Teacher Ed Collaborative, supporting inservice and pre-service teachers respectively, this is a decent overview of that work and the resulting OER pieces that can be adapted for use elsewhere.
Hi all: I recently gave an overview presentation of our collection of educator learning resources on how to #TeachClimate. It includes dozens of resources that gather powerful approaches and tools from a broad variety of #ClimateJustice education projects. We are so grateful that they shared their work at a crucial moment of societal response. 🙏
Here are the links to the recording and slides…
🌿 VIDEO RECORDING: https://youtu.be/8-ZEcvAmJMA
All resources link off to many other supporting resources. Each tool is an idea and resource funnel focused on specific problems and opportunities of practice. We are #NSFfunded and supported using public funds from the state of Washington.
All resources are available on our site:
➡️ https://stemteachingtools.org
Our team at the University of Washington publishes OER resources to support equity-focused science and climate education. You can check out our new resources in our latest newsletter.
It describes…
🌿 2 new practice briefs on: (1) integrating Crosscutting Concepts into #SciEd instruction and (2) how to engage youth in #ClimateAction
🌿 2 webinar recordings on teaching #ClimateJustice
🌿 3 #TeacherEd lesson plans on how to #TeachClimate
February 2023 Newsletter:
➡️ http://eepurl.com/ikFKYz
@sachbon It is a powerful approach! All students are encouraged to share readings / ideas with the whole group. Sometimes students identify suggested readings, but typically they find topics of personal and collective interest—and I identify specific readings that relate. Basically, students nominate—and I curate the final readings. It has been working quite well.
As with all of our @STEMTeachTools, you can get to the more polished PDF formatted version from the landing page of the resource. It is a great format to share with others! #NGSSchat #NGSS #SciEd
Here's the direct link to the PDF:
➡️ https://stemteachingtools.org/assets/landscapes/STEM-Teaching-Tool-92-Nature-Journaling.pdf
We are grateful to the co-authors of this new @STEMTeachTools for sharing their fabulous and vital work for a flourishing world. Thank you Meenakshi Sharma, Rebecca Rolnick, Anne Stephens, and Kathryn Hayes!
New STEM Teaching Tool (PLS BOOST)
Over the past 9 years, we have published a collection of professional learning resources to help educators teach science & STEM in equitable ways (#NSFfunded). Check out & share our latest one…
Do you want to get your students outdoors and help them connect with and better understand nature in #SciEd? Check out this fabulous new STEM Teaching Tools on approaches and tools to the study of local phenomena through NATURE JOURNALING.🌏🌿💚
Thanks, @sachbon. I get a research group culture going in different ways…
I work to cultivate a low-key sharing of ideas, phenomena, situations & resources from the students & model that.
I map out first 3 weeks of readings & have others from prior course runs in my back pocket. in week 3 small groups sink in to "breadth resources" to nominate future reading topics. We build those out.
Collaborative design projects get nominated by students using a bottom up process & shape last 1/3 of class.
Q: Why is limiting the size of SUVs key to road safety?
A: "every life saved in a large vehicle came at the expense of 4.3 dead pedestrians, motorcyclists and car drivers"
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/larger-vehicles-may-make-canadians-feel-safe-on-the-road-but-heavier-cars-are-proven-to-cause-more-fatal-collisions
We're developing open teacher learning resources on #ClimateJustice & #EnvironmentalJustice
Here's Climate Ed Tool #2: Leveraging Environmental Justice to Unlock the Potential of Education
When Might You Use It: To introduce teachers to environmental justice through a rich historical / scientific case study, to help them consider goals of science, to support them in brainstorming how to select & incorporate local environmental justice phenomena into their curriculum
Global #ClimateJustice requires global action to reduce the neoliberal capitalism being driven by corporations & the disproportionate #GHG emissions from the super rich who own those corporations.
