I just finished working on a project with The UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, entitled, “Embedding Education for Sustainability in Cultural Heritage Conservation Education”. The Getty Program received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEH) to implement the initiative because conservators and preservation specialists are in a timely and critical position to be global leaders in sustainability.
Read MoreWe are excited to share a special opportunity for educators seeking a meaningful and engaging book to explore with their students. When you purchase a class set of 10 or more copies through the Cloud Institute website, you will receive a 10% discount, along with complimentary inquiry-based questions to support rich classroom discussions.
Read MoreJaimie has been educating for sustainability for over 30 years. She created a practical guide to help school leaders understand why education for sustainability matters. The guide offers a mini audit and explores the connection between your students’ mindsets and the curriculum. These are the first steps toward building a purposeful and coherent core curriculum that empowers students to shape a thriving, sustainable future.
Get Jaimie’s 3-Step Guide Toward Educating Students for a Sustainable Future here.
Read MoreOur Oxford International Curriculum for Sustainability continues to gain momentum!
Since its publication, the series has won the 2024 GESS Education Award, was nominated for the BESA Sustainability and Net Zero Award 2025, was presented by Daniella Tilbury to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) during a meeting of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Steering Committee in Geneva.
Read More638 educators from around the world joined our latest International Baccalaureate (IB) webinar on how to integrate Education for Sustainability (EfS) into the Primary Years Programme (PYP). The engagement was exceptional!
For anyone who was unable to attend, we will soon receive the chat comments and the full recording, and we will be pleased to share both. You can write to admin@cloudinstitute.org
We are also pleased to confirm that two additional IB webinars will take place later this year, focusing on the Middle Years Programme (MYP) and the Diploma Programme (DP). Dates will be announced soon.
Read MoreOregon has passed a new law requiring climate change and sustainability to be integrated across school subjects — thanks in large part to the persistence of Mikayla May, a student at Caldera High School in Central Oregon.
Mikayla became the driving force behind House Bill 3365 after noticing that her classes taught the science of climate change but not the solutions. “We’re only taught the problems and the causes of climate change,” she said. “We don’t learn anything about the solutions.” Determined to change that, Mikayla partnered with Oregon Educators for Climate Education and testified before lawmakers, helping push the bill through the 2025 legislature.
Read MoreAt the Cloud Institute, we are always excited to spotlight new resources that bring education for sustainability to life in vivid, accessible ways. Last spring, we shared a wonderful new Earth system science website called Story.Earth, developed by our long-time partners, WorldLink. Like us, WorldLink’s work is deeply inspired by the ideas of Buckminster Fuller—cultivating systems thinking, futures thinking, and ecological literacy.
Read MoreStory.Earth makes Earth system science accessible and meaningful with beautiful visualizations, interactive maps and globes, and NGSS-aligned lesson plans. Students explore real-world data, analyze patterns of change, and develop solutions for a sustainable future. Perfect for inspiring a global perspective and making connections across disciplines. Explore for free at Story.Earth. An ideal Earth Day resource!
Read MoreIf you are an International Baccalaureate (IB) teacher with an IB Exchange account, check out the new Commons microlearning modules co-developed with the Cloud Institute.
These microlearning modules are available to educators who want to understand more about the Commons and those who want to undertake the micro-credential Recognizing and Protecting the Commons.
Read MoreNeed help with Education for Sustainability action submissions? Join our professional development workshop on March 7, 2025, to gain the knowledge and tools to integrate sustainability into your teaching and strengthen your Sustainable Jersey action submissions.
Read MoreWe are proud to announce that the print book series of the Oxford International Sustainability is now available! Developed in collaboration with The Cloud Institute, this comprehensive series includes 9 Project Books, 9 Teacher’s Guides, and professional development support for primary and secondary education. Designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to navigate the challenges and opportunities of sustainable living, this series empowers the next generation to lead the shift toward a sustainable future.
Read MoreThe Cloud Institute is proud to announce the new Oxford International Curriculum for Sustainability! Now more than ever, teachers are increasingly looking for ways to bring the attributes of Education for Sustainability into the classroom, and today’s young people are counting on all of us to learn how to work together to make the shift toward a sustainable future.
The Cloud Institute is working closely with the Oxford International Curriculum team at Oxford University Press to build the vertically articulated series of project- based learning experiences from 1st year to 9th year (K-8 in the U.S.).
We wrote the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Framework for the series and are working closely with the lesson authors to make them come alive for students and teachers in classrooms all over the world.
Read MoreCheck out the Climate Change Education Resource Guide for Schools produced by the team at the Center for Sustainability and Climate Education at the Dutchess County BOCES. Find ideas, resources and activities to start the conversation about our climate and the actions that we, our students and colleagues can take as global citizens.
Read MoreWhat perspectives are needed to weather our current social climate? What knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits of mind do we need to instill in young people to prepare them for tomorrow? How do successful leaders manage remote teams and achieve goals during times of change and uncertainty? What role will vision, imagination, and intention play in creating a future that is vibrant, resilient and thriving? We will explore these ideas and more in this free webinar series.
Read MoreOur work with the NYC Department of Education’s High School Career Technical Education continues and has now been merged into the CTE Academic Integration Blueprint. This document aims to bridge the gap between graduation rate and low college readiness by facilitating the integration of CTE and academic coursework, training teachers to develop integrated curriculum and promoting high quality project-based learning (PBL) practices in academic classes. One of the plan’s five objectives is to “Infuse sustainability principles throughout CTE and academic content curricula”.
Read MoreIn my experience, it is harder for people to think about what it will take to educate for sustainability, than it is to actually educate for sustainability. This makes sense, given that change of any kind is threatening to our reptilian brains. We have a biological fear of change. Add to this the fact that most educators think of “sustainablizing” as an add on to an already packed life, curriculum and to do list. Given the flavor of the month way that schools often operate, it seems like just one more thing to do. It isn’t. It can’t be. It is the thing we all must do if we want to thrive over time.
Read MoreI have been working with Kapalama Middle School at the Oahu campus of Kamehameha Schools for the past seven years. We would like to continue our work together, but for now, the contract has been completed. How can we know if the work we have done together to educate students for a sustainable future will last and will be improved over time? We can’t. What we can do is create favorable conditions for it to flourish over time—just like everything else we want to sustain. As I always say, there is no such thing as “sustain-guaranteed” but there is such a thing as “sustain-able”.
Read MoreThere are many options when it comes to designing curriculum that educates for sustainability. Some educators prefer to "sustainablize" their curriculum by working with the commencement edition of The Cloud Institute’s EfS Standards and Performance Indicators and cross walking and embedding them where and when appropriate. This also involves determining which ones are developmentally appropriate at each grade level. Others prefer we do that for them. If you would like to see how we would "sustainablize" our K-12 curriculum from the first quarter of Kindergarten to the last quarter of 12th grade, check out our new EfS Scope and Sequence.
