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Measuring teachers’ perception of their participation in Environmental and Sustainability Education programmes: introducing the ESE programme questionnaire
Gracia et al
1-26 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2025.2526529

#wholeschoolapproach #selfefficacy #burnout

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red bunny on mint green background with a call to boycott on feb 28 - buy nothing, use small businesses and remember we have power

remember this can be one day or day one - do what you can!

The umbrella effect is something I’ve been taught and talked about with students. The idea that conserving one species will inadvertently help other species in the same ecosystem. In a lot of cases, the charismatic megafauna’s management plan encompasses huge ranges and systems of interdependence.

Northland built some of the greatest minds in ecology, sustainable development, and conservation in the USA. Another huge loss for our country, for the environment, for our uncertain future.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

As I say every year on Women In Science Day:

There are unfathomably many ways to be a woman.
There are unfathomably many ways to be a scientist.

Attacks on women and attacks on science go together, and it takes strength across the spectra of gender and science to stop them from breaking us down.

Massive support for climate change education continues | National Center for Science Education

*77%* of American voters agree that schools should be teaching children about the causes and consequences of global warming, and potential solutions. ncse.ngo/massive-supp... @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social @mason4c.bsky.social #goodnews #stopdoomscrolling #stats #ClimateSky

I feel like we don't talk enough about how many lives have been saved by accurate, publicly available weather forecasts

"I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one.

We are each other's destiny."

We cannot stand idly by as DEI and environmental justice initiatives are reduced to conjecture. These are the cornerstones of imagining a better world for everyone. Equity is not a hypothetical it is mandatory for our world’s future. Every person deserves clean air and water, for generations.

Trump’s executive order that utilizes the term environmental justice in quotations is a travesty. There is no “environmental justice” - we know that climate change and other environmental issues disproportionately affect those who are the least responsible for the climate catastrophe.

Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."

Should you bear near a poet with agita today, simply distract them with a math problem. Have them inventory their books. Alphabetize their TBR piles, shelved or otherwise. Bake cookies with them. Go watch the birds. Paint. Pet some dogs. Offer to take a walk with them. Rub their shoulders. 📚💙

Here is another resource from WWF and CLLC on sustainable infrastructure: www.worldwildlife.org/pages/align-...

We forget that even species of amphibian need to cross over roads and fragmented habitat. escholarship.org/content/qt7j... Designing an engineering unit for students to think of solutions to fragmented habitat could be cool!

The bear who tried to cross the road Making sense of a famous bear’s death and the future of grizzlies and roadways By Kayla Heinze, Communications Specialist A […]

I have always been interested in road-ecology and built out a unit to teach for high schoolers in CA. I would check out the Center for Large Landscape Conservation! A source from MT for comparison: www.vitalground.org/juan-carrito...

Systems thinking and systems design are the most important things we can teach young people today. It’s how we solve people’s confusion about the intersections between fire ecology, forest mgmt, and climate change.
How do you incorporate systems design into your work in env ed?

"Who pays the price for climate destruction around the globe?
Not the fossil fuel industry pocketing profits and taxpayer subsidies as their products wreak havoc.
Everyday people suffer, with their lives and livelihoods," says UN SG Antonio Guterres
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I didn’t expect good science in the form of conservation and wildlife management to be so on the Republican’s chopping block - but here we are. So hard to feel positive about a future for the young conservationists I work with when these are our leaders.

If you are struggling with 2025 and what it means for you as an environmental activist & educator – you are not alone!!!

Project and place-based learning is a start, but it’s also social emotional learning, it’s also talking about climate anxiety, its peer work, its required reading and other forms of media. It’s immersive and transformational education.

Lack of modes to effectively teach environmental and scientific literacy is why we have students disconnected from how they learn, their communities, and nature as a whole. Luckily, there are SO many things we can be doing and talking about with students to build these skills. #environmentalliteracy

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

Would love to be added! Work on and around climate change education, place- and project-based 🤍 interests in wildlife and biodiversity loss