Dear ECCLPs Supporter,

Join us at the upcoming free ECCLPs virtual annual forum symposium! Featuring renowned leaders in the field of climate and environmental literacy like Jothsna Harris , founder of Change Narrative and Obama USA Leader , and Suzie Hicks, children's media artist and climate storyteller. This event will be a transformative experience allowing students, educators, faculty members and state leaders to unite over finding holistic and sustainable solutions in climate education. Each week this month we will be releasing exciting symposium announcements, including opportunities to engage with presenters and registrants!

As a reminder, all registrants will automatically receive access to all the workshop recordings!

Featured Session Presenters

Visualizing Climate Change: Fostering Empathy through AI

In Tina's workshop, STEM educators will learn about integrating climate change communication into their teaching while focusing on skills such as data visualization and storytelling. This hands-on session will guide participants through the process of creating engaging narratives and visualizing climate data to make it more understandable and impactful for students. Tina aims to give educators effective tools for interactive storytelling, helping them inspire their students to engage with climate change topics.

Building Stress Resilience & Sustainability

Balance your nervous system with multiple somatic/mindful practices woven throughout an engaging session that maps our stress cycles against the Human Function Curve. Learn to read your unique "body cues”, “behavior cues”, and “communication cues” so that you can engage in connected communication with colleagues and mindfully shift yourself/your nervous system back into homeostasis in the work environment. Additionally, you’ll consider the ways in which implicit bias is perpetuated at higher rates by individuals who are stressed and burned out.

Featured Affinity Space Facilitators

Registrants who qualify will be invited to these personalized affinity spaces to build community, connect, and support one another before and during the event!

PK-12 Youth Affinity Space Facilitator

College Students Affinity Space Facilitator

Featured Poster Session Presenters

The Roles of Schools in Community Climate Resilience

(Primary Audiences: Grades 6-12 Teachers)

In the face of devastating climate impacts, California has become a center for innovation in equitable and effective climate adaptation. Universities, planning agencies, and non-profit groups are pioneering adaptation initiatives that both target the climate vulnerabilities of frontline and historically underserved communities and enhance their adaptive capacity. The dual nature of schools—as places for youth to learn and as places where communities convene— offer unique opportunities for capacity building and community engagement. We describe a program working to leverage California’s schools as a community climate hubs and to provide resources for teachers to identify local climate risks and engage their students in meaningful work around these risks.

Facilitating PK-12 Climate Education that is Equity-Centered, Science-Grounded and Solutions-Oriented

(Primary Audiences: University Faculty)

Supported by the National Science Foundation’s ITEST Program and led by CSU East Bay, the Climate Empowerment Learning Initiative (CELI) applies a networked-improvement-community (NIC) approach to school-wide transformation, teacher agency, and minoritized students’ climate learning and belonging. The NIC directly engages about 30 teachers and administrators in a highly-diverse low-income public high school and one of its feeder middle schools in Hayward, California and is continually widening its collaborative network. This poster explores the university’s role, and lessons learned, in facilitating the co-development, implementation and improvement of a school-wide cross-disciplinary climate curriculum that is equity centered, science grounded, and solutions oriented.

Featured Virtual Booths

Don't forget to stop by the virtual booths hosted by amazing partners like Climate Action Pathways and West Los Angeles College! Thank you to all our wonderful partners for helping us bring this program to life.

Register for the symposium today and automatically enter our raffle to win amazing prizes, including ECCLPs consultant and leading DEI expert Lily Zhang's book "DEI Deconstructed: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Doing the Work and Doing it Right"!

Thank You to Our Featured Event Sponsor!

A HUGE thank you to the Inland Region Energy Network for sponsoring this event to support the vision and mission of ECCLPs! I-REN is currently accepting applications for their paid Energy Fellowship program in partnership with CivicSpark for the San Bernardino and Riverside areas. Learn more here and follow I-REN on socials @ InlandREN.

If you're interested in supporting this event as a sponsor, please reach out to Sydney Quinn , Development Associate at UC Irvine School of Education at snquinn@uci.edu.

Featured Partner:

We extend our gratitude Subject to Climate as a program partner for their continued support. We're excited to launch the ECCLPs California teaching and learning hub for the upcoming school year with StC! This hub will be piloted at the event by many participants who will have the opportunity to directly influence the creation of the digital resource hub. Register today and opt in as a piloting teacher for more info!

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at ecclps@uci.edu and don't forget to subscribe to our monthly newsletter here to stay updated on upcoming events and initiatives!

Stay tuned for more weekly announcements and see you at the event!

- The ECCLPs Team

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