Spring Newsletter | Play The New Fish Game Online and Summer PD for Educators

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Thank You!

Thanks to all of you who supported the upgrade of The Fish Game Online and to the team at Funatomic - educational game developers extraordinaire. The new Fish Game is now live!

There are many new features to play with, including the ability to choose the number of fisher folk with whom you are fishing in each game; the ability to announce your intentions or not, and the ability to do or not do what you promised. You’ll see that everything you do and don’t do makes a difference. Let us know what you think!!!

The Cloud Institute's Annual Curriculum Design Studio will be Online and On Campus this year!

Join us August 2nd - 6th for the popular Introduction to Education for Sustainability (EfS) One Day Workshop or a full week of Curriculum Design and Coaching.

Sign-up today to access expertise, resources, and tools required to design elegant curricula for use in the classroom, protocols for professional development, or action plans designed to implement EfS change initiatives in schools and communities.

Earn up to 24 Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) credit hours for this event.

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Center for Sustainability and Climate Education | EfS Strengths Assessment

An EfS Strengths Assessment tool offered by Dutchess County (NY) BOCES allows schools to determine how best to integrate sustainability and climate education into teaching, the school community, and buildings and grounds.

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Ultimate Civics Curriculum Project

The Cloud Institute and Earth Island Institute have partnered to support the development of a series of curriculum units by the Ultimate Civics project. These units are designed to inspire youth to engage in activating democracy, and to emerge as game changers in their communities.

Through this project students will:

  • Learn tools and skills for understanding and protecting our social, economic and ecological wealth, and the liberties afforded to us by our constitutional democracy

  • Learn basic concepts and structure of our government in principle and in practice

  • Explore critical issues of their generation to create game-changing action plans

We're in need of additional funding to complete the project. If you can donate to support this important work, we can do our part to change minds, change culture, and change the world.

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We are excited to announce The Cloud Institute’s new long term collaboration and partnership with the Sustainability Institute at Sequoia Group in Singapore. “We have been planning this for eleven years” said Jaqueline Wong, Executive Director of Sequoia Group and Co-Director of the Sustainability Institute, about our new work together. “The conditions are finally favorable in Singapore for this to happen.” The Singapore Green Plan 2030 has launched and takes Education and Schools seriously as leverage points for sustainability.

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The Green Schools Conference | June 28-29, 2021

The Green Schools Conference (GSC) is the only event to bring together all the players involved in making green schools a reality: people who lead, operate, build and teach in schools.

The conference will address topics such as design for sustainability education and social equity, healthy schools and COVID-19 response, empowering student leadership, achieving climate commitments, and much more. 

Student Solar Competition for Long Island, Westchester and NYC Students

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We are excited to partner with EmPower Solar on their bi-annual student solar competition. We encourage all students K-12 to participate. Learn about solar power in your communities and enter to win some exciting prizes and scholarships!

Register your team by April 16th! 

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The Teacher Development Grants support small teams of teachers in the formation and implementation of groundbreaking k-12 classroom instruction. The grants provide opportunities for teachers to integrate fresh strategies that encourage critical inquiry and to observe their effects on students.

Teachers have the opportunity to reflect and write about their projects, as well as to share their results with other teachers. The Foundation awards grants to individuals in amounts up to $10,000 per year for a maximum of $30,000 over three years, provided the eligibility requirements continue to be met.

Applications are due April 15th 2021.