Climate Literacy & Energy Awareness Network Newsflash

June 14, 2023

CLEAN Needs Assessment

Teaching about climate topics? If you are teaching or would like to teach about climate topics, consider completing CLEAN’s anonymous, 15-min online survey! CLEAN is gathering information about teachers’ experiences, interests, and needs around teaching students about climate change. You can enter a drawing for one of six $50 Amazon gift cards. To enter the drawing complete the survey by June 10th and provide your email address. Your email address will not be connected with your survey responses.  

Click here to access the Survey!

Resources

Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies

Read more here!

"COLUMBUS, Ohio—Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty.

Now one year into her program, she wonders if she belongs here. The problem has nothing to do with Ohio State and everything to do with the Ohio General Assembly and a proposal that would regulate higher education. The wide-ranging bill includes a provision that designates climate policy as a 'controversial belief or policy' and says faculty must 'encourage students to reach their own conclusions about all controversial beliefs or policies and shall not seek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view.'"

Opportunities

Wade Institute for Science Education 2023 Summer Professional Development Institutes

Watershed Science and Engineering in the Berkshires

A Five-Day Summer Professional Development Institute for Grades 6-12 Educators

Registration Information

Dates: July 10th – 14th, 2023 (8:30 AM – 3:30 PM ET)

Location: Based out of the Berkshire Science Commons at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA

Cost: Free with a $450 stipend for eligible MA Educators through DESE's OAPL funding; $450 per educators who do not qualify for OAPL; discounted prices for teams of teachers from the same school or free for eligible MA educators

Credit: PDPs are provided; 3 graduate credits available for an additional fee

Learn more and register online here!

Connecting Science and Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

A Three-Day Summer Professional Development Institute for Grades 3-5 Educators

Registration Information

Dates: July 17th - 19th, 2023 (8:30 AM – 3:30 PM ET)

Collaborating Partner and Location: Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst, MA

Cost: $350 per participant; team discounts available for teachers from the same school

Credit: PDPs are provided; 2 graduate credits available for an additional fee

Learn more and register online here!

SENCER West Coast Regional Meeting

This one-day in-person conference, on September 14-15, 2023, will convene climate experts, teacher-scholars from other disciplines, and community partners to discuss the future of climate education for undergraduates. The goal of the conference is to expand the number of faculty involved in climate education and for those already involved to deepen their understanding of and appreciation for the strengths that multiple perspectives bring to addressing the challenges of climate.

Register online here!

Sponsored by The Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment at Harvey Mudd College

Events from the CLEAN Network

CLEAN Calendar: Opportunities & Professional Development

On Call with CLEAN

Attend CLEAN's Weekly Teleconference

For Network Members each Tuesday, 1:00pm ET/12:00pm CT/11:00am MT/10:00am PT

This Month's CLEAN Calls are featuring:

• June 20th: Informal Conversation
• June 27th: Citizen’s Climate Lobby and COP with Isatis Cintron
• July 4th: NO CALL
• July 11th: Informal Conversation
• July 18th: Care about Climate and COP with Mujidah Ajibola

Featured CLEAN Post

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We’re leading a cohort for @climategenorg's Summer Institute for Climate Change Education!

Join us, and educators from across North America, for an impactful 3-day online training July 17–21. Teachers from all backgrounds and subjects are invited to attend and learn new tools, skills, and resources to teach climate change in science, social studies, ELA, environmental studies, geography, art, math, and more.

Learn more and register here!

Posted: May 23, 2023