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Ric Galvan
Ric Galvan is a senior at the University of Texas, Austin, and advocates with the Texas Freedom Network’s program for young Texans, Texas Rising. TFN has fought for sound science education in Texas since 1995.
Climate change is a problem that doesn’t allow the luxury of unlimited time
Susan Holveck
Susan Holveck is Program Administrator for High School Science and Mathematics for the Portland, Oregon, Public Schools.
1.5°C May Not Seem Like Much, But It’s a Really Big Deal. Here’s Why
Climate change education legislation in Wisconsin dies
Climate threat sparks youth action
A “whole” climate change education is needed
Lessons in Crisis
Lindsey Kirkland
Lindsey Kirkland is Climate Change Education Manager at Climate Generation.
Teaching what our students deserve: Justice-based climate change education
Greg Simons
Greg Simons is Science Department Chair and Senior Class Dean at Shattuck-St. Mary’s School in Faribault, Minnesota. He currently teaches AP Environmental Science and is professionally interested in ways environmental science teachers incorporate social justice themes when framing global environmental issues. He holds a BA from St. Olaf College and both an MA and EdD from Hamline University.
Helping students see global climate change issues through a social justice lens
Hawaii resolution encourages climate change education
Kelly Le
Kelley Le has been in the educational field for a decade as a high school science educator, instructional coach, and educational leader. She is currently the director of the University of California Irvine Science Project and also author of the book, Teaching Climate Change for Grades 6-12: Empowering Science Teachers to Take on the Climate Crisis Through NGSS (2021). She serves as an executive committee member for the University of California-The California State University Environmental and Climate Change Literacy Project initiative, a board member at Ten Strands, and a Climate Reality Corps Mentor.
Teach about climate change and injustice to position students as agents of change
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen books of literary fiction, most recently a novel called A Children’s Bible (W.W. Norton), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction and one of The New York Times Book Review’s Best 10 Books of 2020. Other titles include the novels Sweet Lamb of Heaven (2016) and Mermaids in Paradise (2014). Millet has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and various other honors and works as a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity, an organization dedicated to fighting climate change and species extinction.
We owe it to future generations
Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America
Climate change education bill in Maine progresses further
Why climate education? Because it’s even more interesting than molecular biology
