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Climate change is affecting learners everywhere — from wildfire smoke negatively impacting healthy development, to heat harming students’ ability to learn, to flooding forcing schools to close. Educational systems — and leaders — must increasingly grapple with how to best support learners, schools, and communities in a changing climate.
Working with schools and initiatives across Harvard — including the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability — HGSE will lead a connected, coordinated, and research-based approach to support the education field in understanding how climate change affects education, how it exacerbates existing inequities, and how leaders can advance solutions and ensure that learners across the world can thrive.
“Climate change is not a future problem; climate change is already happening and it affects us all. With about 70 million students enrolled in school from preK through postsecondary education, one in five Americans are currently connected to the education sector, making education a critical lever for change. What we do matters.”
Dean Bridget Terry Long
Learn to foster global competence on climate action in your school using proven frameworks and tactics for organizational change.
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Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt has assembled a cross-Harvard team to develop methods for turning climate change skeptics into green energy supporters after being awarded a Salata Institute grant
The do’s and don'ts of empowering young children in the face of climate change
With "Hollow Tree," HGSE student and film director Kira Akerman makes filmmaking an education journey
"The only way to prevent the dread and guilt from taking over is by taking action. For all our kids, it’s time we prioritize their future and help ensure they can thrive in a changing climate."
"I think these topics become difficult when people don't respond to them. We need to move beyond inhibiting power structures and bring more voices to the table."
"Students need to feel 2 things: Relevance that what they are learning actually has meaning in their lives and they need to feel agency. We want people that are advocates for change — that can only take place through environments that are learning by doing environments that teach you how ecosystems are shaped by the world."