Right Here! An Educator’s Guide to Equitable Climate Action in the Upper Valley provides the curricular ingredients for equitable climate action with your students. Combine it with your creativity and vision to prepare a curriculum that is right for you, your students, and your community.
What you’ll find in this guide:
- A framework for equitable climate action
- A catalog of ideas and resources for creating curricula designed for a range of capacities and interests
- Real-life, local examples that will help you and your students envision what is possible
This guide is primarily designed for use by middle-school educators in the Upper Valley region of Vermont and New Hampshire, but can readily be used by educators outside of this region or adapted for older or younger grades. Students and community organizations are encouraged to use this guide as well.
By Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools educator Joan Haley; Andrew Powers and Micheal Duffin of PEER Associates; environmental justice consultant Casandra Mathelier; and Prosper Valley principal Aaron Cinquemani.
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Learning Locally, Transforming Globally
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Climate Resilience Case Studies
Case studies representing four schools that are engaged in climate change education, focused on resilience and adaptation.