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**UPDATE: In less than a week, this campaign has already surpassed two-thirds of it's goal! I am inspired to dream big. Any money raised above the original amount will go to paying youth of color and teachers from comunities of color as collaborators. With a larger team, we will produce curriculum for multiple grade levels. This will also ensure the curriculum is directly addressing the needs of students of color.
By contributing to this campaign, your money will help bring empowering, inspiring climate justice curriculum to hundreds of classrooms across the U.S.
I am Sally Neas, an educator and PhD candidate at the University of California at Davis. For five years, I have studied how to use education to foster hope and inspiration around the climate crisis. I am now transforming what I have learned into tools for teachers and launching this campaign to build online resources for empowering, creative climate justice education. We will use poetry and art to help students not just learn the facts about climate change but make sense of it. This deeper reckoning is key for climate action.
Using poetry and art to teach climate change
Although the need is great, climate change is rarely talked about in schools. When it is, typically it’s handled in ways that overwhelm and even traumatize youth. Students learn the horrifying realities of this crisis but have no way to express how they feel about it.
I have interviewed scores of young climate activists about their journey from despair to empowerment. This has taught me that what youth need is the opportunity to grapple with what is at stake and express their fears, hopes, dreams and nightmares. Poetry and art are perfect for this.
Through a collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, I am designing climate justice curriculum and online resources for teachers. These will use poetry and art to help youth relate to climate change.
What your money will fund
● A website to house resources, curriculum and videos
● Guiding resources that introduce approaches to teaching climate justice through poetry and arts
● Engaging, innovative climate justice curriculum for English and arts classes
● A lively and deeply moving series of videos featuring young climate activists from diverse racial backgrounds
● A series of short, clear, engaging webinars for English and arts teachers about teaching climate change
Engaging with climate justice
The curriculum presents climate change as a social justice issue. It will include a series of videos featuring racially diverse young climate activists. The videos will integrate with Wick’s new online Listening Wall. As students watch a video, they will see the transcription. The Listening Wall tool then allows them to highlight words or phrases from the transcription. These words or phrases then become the basis for a poem. This allows the students to not just learn about climate justice but create their own story about it.
This whole project will cost $5,000. I have already received $2,000 in matching funds. With another $3,000, I will be able to build and share this important work with hundreds of classrooms across the U.S.!
By contributing to this campaign, your money will help bring empowering, inspiring climate justice curriculum to hundreds of classrooms across the U.S.
I am Sally Neas, an educator and PhD candidate at the University of California at Davis. For five years, I have studied how to use education to foster hope and inspiration around the climate crisis. I am now transforming what I have learned into tools for teachers and launching this campaign to build online resources for empowering, creative climate justice education. We will use poetry and art to help students not just learn the facts about climate change but make sense of it. This deeper reckoning is key for climate action.
Using poetry and art to teach climate change
Although the need is great, climate change is rarely talked about in schools. When it is, typically it’s handled in ways that overwhelm and even traumatize youth. Students learn the horrifying realities of this crisis but have no way to express how they feel about it.
I have interviewed scores of young climate activists about their journey from despair to empowerment. This has taught me that what youth need is the opportunity to grapple with what is at stake and express their fears, hopes, dreams and nightmares. Poetry and art are perfect for this.
Through a collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, I am designing climate justice curriculum and online resources for teachers. These will use poetry and art to help youth relate to climate change.
What your money will fund
● A website to house resources, curriculum and videos
● Guiding resources that introduce approaches to teaching climate justice through poetry and arts
● Engaging, innovative climate justice curriculum for English and arts classes
● A lively and deeply moving series of videos featuring young climate activists from diverse racial backgrounds
● A series of short, clear, engaging webinars for English and arts teachers about teaching climate change
Engaging with climate justice
The curriculum presents climate change as a social justice issue. It will include a series of videos featuring racially diverse young climate activists. The videos will integrate with Wick’s new online Listening Wall. As students watch a video, they will see the transcription. The Listening Wall tool then allows them to highlight words or phrases from the transcription. These words or phrases then become the basis for a poem. This allows the students to not just learn about climate justice but create their own story about it.
This whole project will cost $5,000. I have already received $2,000 in matching funds. With another $3,000, I will be able to build and share this important work with hundreds of classrooms across the U.S.!