Summer Newsletter | Faculty Coaching and Curriculum Design
/Education for Sustainability Professional Development
We support the design and development of curriculum and instructional materials that educate for sustainability, and are documented, mapped and aligned to academic standards. We also support the building of assessments that measure and produce meaningful learning.
Let's explore together what Understanding By Design/Backwards Design has to do with Education for Sustainability (EfS), what other popular frameworks and strategic initiatives align to the EfS Standards and Indicators, and what integrating EfS into your core curriculum and instruction will look like.
Join Us Next Week - Online or In-Person For Our One Day Introduction to EfS and Play The Fish Game
This special, single-day offering is designed to increase participants’ awareness, knowledge, and understanding of the core concepts, content, and habits of mind that characterize Sustainability and Education for Sustainability (EfS).
This hands‐on workshop engages participants in interactive, replicable learning experiences that combine systems thinking tools with interdisciplinary content for a deeper understanding of our role in moving toward a sustainable future. A discussion of ‘mental models that contribute to sustainability’ and ‘behaviors and strategies that contribute to sustainable outcomes’ provides participants with a hopeful paradigm for education and community action.
VIDEO: How To Be Socially Impactful As A Young Person
In April, 2022 as part of the annual Sustainability Week organized by the Dutchess County NY BOCES, Center for Sustainability and Climate Education, student and Climate Justice Activist Xiye Bastida shares her story about how she began creating awareness on the urgency of the climate crisis at school, then citywide and soon worldwide.Here she conveys that even if you are young, you can make yourself heard when you have a solid argument and a personal story.
School Sustainability Assessment for Teaching and Learning
We love to collaborate with colleagues and combine forces to achieve Whole School Sustainability. This new Strength Assessment Tool is the result of our collaboration with Metanoia in Hong Kong.
This assessment tool provides a baseline assessment of the 'stage of change' your school or district is in on the journey to educate for sustainability through curriculum design, organizational policy, and the built environment. It creates a shared frame of reference for some of the essential elements of whole school sustainability, and sparks ideas for short and long-term planning.
The Cloud Institute's EfS Standards and Indicators in Arabic
In partnership with Qatar Foundation, an Arabic translation of The Cloud Institute's EfS Standards and Performance Indicators are now available. This document includes the knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits of mind of Education for Sustainability, and each EfS standard has a set of coded performance indicators used to guide educators as they infuse their school culture, curriculum, instruction and assessment practices with Education for Sustainability.
Donate to Support Education for Sustainability
Our children are counting on us all to turn “Spaceship Earth” around. Our unique contribution is the different way of thinking that characterizes Education for Sustainability.
Your donation to The Cloud Institute gives us the flexibility to create new opportunities for the teachers, students and communities we serve.