The Climate Literacy Teacher Leader (CLTL) Fellowship Program provides in-service preK-12 teachers with support, resources, mentorship, and training to become leaders in climate literacy education. Fellows develop tools and strategies to leverage written, visual and multimodal narratives in the classroom to empower students to understand the climate crisis and become agents of change in their lives and communities. Fellows deepen their knowledge of pedagogy and curriculum development, create climate literacy educational materials for their classrooms, provide mentorship to peers, and join a growing community of teacher leaders committed to transforming education as a system capable of supporting the transition to an ecological civilization
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Year Three
Dongmei Lian (Math)
"The fellowship has opened my eyes, humbled me and help me become a better educator. Seeing how the other Fellows teach climate literacy in their subject area definitely gave me confidence to do so too."
Luke Gliddon (Science)
"Having time set aside for this work is important. Without it I would be spending time on other important things, but would neglect this longer-term, and ultimately more important, work."
Joseph Lin (Chinese)
"This Fellowship is important to connect educators and feel an urgent obligation to impart climate knowledge to the next generation through the school education system."
Abby Hartzell (English)
"I loved the interdisciplinary connections in our cohort. I learned more about the curriculum writing process as well since I saw my fellow educators develop and hone ideas, create timelines, and workshop lessons."
Zach Johnson (Science)
"I learned a lot about how we tell stories and how those stories are used to communicate ideas, and it's given me a lot of ideas for how to discuss climate with my students."