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Education and Climate Action

What does the education sector need to do in order to respond to the challenges of climate change? Educators and leaders are already driving impact in their schools and communities — embracing evidence-based solutions, innovative practices, and an emerging consensus around education as a key lever for climate action. How can we broaden that vision and scale that impact?  
Harvard Graduate School of Education's faculty, students, and alumni are exploring that question, through important and impactful work in partnership with Harvard's Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, and through projects both within HGSE and beyond, such as EcoLearn and Aspen Institute's This is Planet Ed

 

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Upcoming Event

Building Our Resilient Future: Education Driving Hope, Innovation, and Action

Wednesday, May 10, 2023
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Askwith Hall 

In conversation with national and local leaders, we'll highlight an action-oriented agenda for the education sector with innovation and engagement as drivers for climate resilience and mitigation. We'll show how schools and communities are already making an impact in confronting climate change — altering our use of resources, creating exciting learning opportunities, and advancing equity in community approaches. We'll explore ways to accelerate progress, to spur collective effort, and to act with urgency. And we'll ask participants to share stories of where they are finding hope and momentum now.

In person and open to the public. Additional details and registration coming soon. Presented by the Askwith Education Forum.

Speakers include:

Michael Hester
Michael Hester
Superintendent, Batesville School District, Arkansas; strategic planner for Arkansas' first school district solar initiative, the savings from which was used to increase teacher salaries

 

John King
John King Jr.

Chancellor, State University of New York, and former U.S. Secretary of Education

 

Host

Monica Higgins
Monica Higgins

Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education


 

This event is part of Harvard Climate Action Week, which gathers climate leaders and experts in pursuit of durable, effective, and equitable solutions to the climate change challenges confronting humanity. Visit the Salata Institute’s Climate Action Accelerator site for more information and additional ways to participate.

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Watch: Education and Climate Action Convening

A special convening in October 2022 with research and practice leaders from Harvard and beyond, presented by the Askwith Education Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

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Climate Change Stories

Child at a climate change demonstration

Strategies for how adults can be thinking and talking about climate to and around children

Climate Change signs

Why schools should act against climate change now and how they can make change a reality.

Climate Action Askwith

A crucial conversation about how educators and systems can advance climate solutions, build resilience to climate change, and support the learners of today and tomorrow

Read more stories about HGSE's investment in educating for climate action >>

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