• Welcome | Eric Havel, Community Resources for Science

• Climate Literacy Updates | Nate Ivy, Fremont Unified School District

• Agenda | Nancy Wright, Hayward Unified School District

• Youth Leadership | Tarun Rajesh, Dublin High School

• State-of-the-State | Andra Yeghoian, Chief Innovation Officer, Ten Strands 

• From Expectations to Impact: How Students Turned Field Research into Climate Advocacy | Classroom #1
  Join high school student CYCP (California Youth Climate Policy) Alumni for a Panel on Driving Climate Advocacy in Schools! Are you passionate about making a difference for the climate in your school? Join alumni from the California Youth Climate Policy Leadership Program as they share how they used field research and data to create impactful climate action plans within their schools. Discover the challenges they faced, the successes they achieved, and how you can apply the same strategies to take climate action at your school. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to turn your ideas into real change! 

  • • Slide Deck & Resources

    • Presenters include: Polina Goncharova, Partnership Programs Specialist, Ten Strands; Anwita Gandesiri, Student, Fremont Unified School District; & Emily Yang, Student, San Francisco Unified School District. 

    • Primary audience: High school students and teachers

• From Adoption to Initial Implementation: Climate Literacy Journeys from Fremont, Berkeley & Hayward | Classroom #2
  Passing and implementing a climate literacy resolution require different skills and strategies. Fremont, Berkeley, and Hayward Unified School Districts will share their unique journeys to advance district-wide climate literacy implementation. Participants will have the opportunity to map out their next steps for their schools/districts. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Nate Ivy, Instructional Coach, Fremont Unified School District; Ellen McClure, Climate Literacy TOSA, Berkeley Unified School District; Nancy Wright, Teacher on Special Assignment, Hayward Unified School District. 

    • Primary audience: Anyone advocating for adopting and implementing district-wide climate literacy (students, teachers, TOSAs, administrators, board members)

• Ocean Literacy: Understanding our Climate Connection | Classroom #3
  The ocean is the largest habitat on planet Earth. Climate literacy dovetails with ocean literacy. We'll explore how and why the ocean is essential to include in climate literacy instruction and explore local environmental "phenomena" highlighting coast/ocean change we are seeing and where NGSS and ocean literacy concepts align.  

  • • Slide Deck & Handbook for Increasing Ocean Literacy

    • Presenter: Jennifer Stock, Media Liaison & Educational Specialist, Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries

    • Primary audience: K-12 teachers & partner organizations

• Creating our Climate Stories* | Classroom #4 *Note: This workshop spans both session times. Participants must join both sessions.
  In this hands-on session, you’ll explore your personal connection to climate change. Through guided reflection, you’ll create a mind map to trace your climate journey — from memories and emotions to moments of action and hope. Using your mind map as inspiration, you’ll choose one aspect of your story to bring to life through a photo essay, blending storytelling with visual media to express your unique perspective. By the end of our session, you’ll have crafted a visual narrative that tells your climate story in a personal and impactful way. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Angel Valerio, Program manager for STEM professional learning at KQED; Eric Havel, Community Resources for Science

    • Primary audience: All event participants

• TK-5 Lessons and Action Projects | Lab #1
  Brief presentations featuring ready-to-use lesson plans, student action project examples, and other curriculum resources for TK-5th grade teachers. The session will include time for attendees to move to small group discussions with presenters for additional information and consultation. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Roni Jones, Director of Curriculum, Ten Strands; Betsy Mitchell, Instructional Materials Design, UC Berkeley Understanding Global Change; Natalie Yakushiji, Lawrence Hall of Science FOSS Climate Literacy Connections; Classroom teachers Amy Haghighi (K) & Jamila Edwards (4), and staff members from Community Resources for Science

    • Primary audience: TK-5 teachers and TOSAs

• Fighting Climate Injustice through Stories and Ice Cores | Lab #2
  This hands-on activity explores how personal experiences and ice cores tell the story of climate change and its impact across the globe.  Participants will log, observe and interpret ice cores like paleoclimatologists determining the history of precipitation, warm and cold periods, as well as connect personal stories to the ice core results. The climate related stories highlight  the uneven impact weather extremes have on different communities.  

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenter: Gita Dunhill, Cal State East Bay

    • Primary Audience:  Grade 5-12 students and teachers

• Schoolyard Forests & TK-12 Outdoor Learning Resources for Student Health and Academic Growth | Lab X
  Learn about the Schoolyard Forest SystemSM Initiative, including the tree canopy analysis for schoolyards across the state. Explore a collection of educational resources curated by Green Schoolyards America to support taking preK-12 students outside to deepen their environmental and climate literacy across subject areas.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenter: Ayesha Ercelawn, Senior Program Manager & Education Specialist, Green Schoolyards America

    • Primary Audience: Teachers, Administrators, District Leadership

• TK-12 Curriculum & PD Resources to Support District Climate Literacy Implementation | Classroom #1
  This workshop will include several brief presentations highlighting a range of free and low cost resources for curriculum and student action projects, and resources for teacher professional development (district-wide, cohort, and individual) available to support implementation of district climate literacy initiatives, TK-12.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Topics and presenters include: Seeds to Solutions, Roni Jones, K-12 Units; Understanding Global Change/BASP, Betsy Mitchell; Sustainable Solutions Industry Experiences, Summer Fellowships, Ignited,  Silvia Beas; Climate Education Pathways Curriculum, BSCS Science Learning, Emily Harris; Curated Online Curriculum and PD Resources, Community Resources for Science; Environmental Justice reflections; Best Practices in Climate Literacy Policy Implementation: Teacher PD & Curriculum district self assessment tool

    • Primary audience: District professional development and curriculum coordinators, TOSAs

• Building a Climate Activist Community in Middle School  | Classroom #2
  With support from the Climate Empowerment Learning Initiative (CELI), a grant partnership between the Hayward Unified School District and Cal State University, East Bay, teachers have created interdisciplinary climate change units that allow students to build their climate literacy and identity as a climate activist. In this workshop, we will share the work of Cesar Chavez Middle School and their Extreme Heat and Equitable Solutions Unit, which incorporates lessons from science, math, history, ELA, PE, and art.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Ricardo Gomez, Peter Hiester, Colleen Jackson & Nancy Wright, Hayward Unified School District

    • Primary audience: Middle school teachers, principals and district level administrators

• Centering Environmental Justice in Student Projects | Classroom #3
  Explore examples of TK-12 student environmental justice projects. Participants will engage in two visioning exercises to imagine and critically examine justice-centered youth climate action projects.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Cece Alter & Marcus Cinque Harris, Frontline Catalysts; Helen Fitzmaurice, UC Berkeley/OTACA.

    • Primary audience: K-12 educators

• Creating our Climate Stories* | Classroom #4 *Note: This workshop spans both session times. Participants must join both sessions.
  In this hands-on session, you’ll explore your personal connection to climate change. Through guided reflection, you’ll create a mind map to trace your climate journey — from memories and emotions to moments of action and hope. Using your mind map as inspiration, you’ll choose one aspect of your story to bring to life through a photo essay, blending storytelling with visual media to express your unique perspective. By the end of our session, you’ll have crafted a visual narrative that tells your climate story in a personal and impactful way. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters include: Angel Valerio, Program manager for STEM professional learning at KQED; Eric Havel, Community Resources for Science

    • Primary audience: All event participants

• Carbon Farming & 5Rs Climate Action Projects!  | Lab #1
  Fight climate change with using the 5Rs (Regenerate, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot)! This presentation and hands-on activity session explores how we can individually and collectively fight global climate change by co-creating upstream Regenerative solutions like applying clean compost in our school communities.  Learn about Alameda County carbon sequestration or carbon farming initiatives at the county level and how classroom composting and cafeteria sorting contributes to this climate change reduction phenomena.  Along with compost mini-lessons, StopWaste staff with Debbie Lenz, Berkeley Unified Teacher, will share local climate action projects from Repair educational community outreach clinics, Reducing single-use plastic in the cafeteria, Recreating with trash, to Regenerating school landscapes to edible ecosystems for climate Resilience.

  • Carbon farming slide deck, Repair/ Fix-it Slide Deck, & Other resources

  • Presenters include:  Lori Caldwell, StopWaste Compost Community Engagement Specialist, Angelina Vergara, StopWaste Schools Manager; Jamie Andrade, StopWaste Schools Coordinator & Cafeteria Reusables Specialist;; Zoe Stradler, StopWaste Schools Outreach Educator; Elle Vendegna, StopWaste Schools Outreach Educator; Kara Sun, StopWaste Schools Outreach Educator; Debbie Lenz, Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD Fix-It Fests) 

  • Primary Audience: K-12 Teachers, Curriculum Coordinators, Students

• Chabot Field Trip Opportunities & Hands on Climate Activities| Lab #2
  Explore hands-on climate literacy activities and field trip opportunities with staff from the Chabot Space & Science Center. Activities will include atmospheric models, renewable energy engineering challenges, and more! 

  • • Field Trips & Activities

    • Presenter: Jamahl Edwards & Daniel Erenstein, science associates, Chabot Space and Science Center

    • Primary audience: K-12 students and teachers

• Climate Education Outdoors | Amphitheater / Lab X
  Let’s learn about climate change outdoors! We’ll be going into Redwood Regional Park to engage as field biologists, collect data on what organisms are present, and use our bodies to analyze a historical data set to make sense of how climate change threatens biodiversity. All the while we’ll be connecting with nature to cultivate our environmental activist identities.

  • • Presenter: Stuart Loebl

    • Primary Audience: 5th-12th grade teachers. Adaptable to lower grades

Tabling will take place on the second level of the Chabot Space and Science Center. Organizations include:

• Bay Area Discovery Museum

• Bay Area Youth Climate Summit

• Berkeley School Volunteers

• Berkeley Unified School District 

• BSCS

• Cal State East Bay's Climate Empowerment Learning Initiative (CELI)

• Center for Ecoliteracy 

• Community Resources for Science  

• EcoInnovate

• Exploratorium

• Fixit Clinic

• FOSS / Lawrence Hall of Science

• Fremont Unified School District

• Frontline Catalysts

• Green Pocket Forest

• Hayward Unified School District 

• Homegrown Habitats & Native Plants:

• Ignited

• KQED

• League for Green Leaders

• Marine Science Institute 

• Montera Middle School

• Mt. Diablo USD 

• Newark Unified School District

• Oakland Technical High School

• Oakland Unified School District:

• Quest Science Center

• School of Rap

• SEI

• Sierra Club

• Springbay Studio

• Stooping Club

• StopWaste

• The Culture of Repair Project

• The Tech Interactive

• Ten Strands: Seeds to Solutions

• Tri-Valley Air Quality Alliance

• UC Berkeley Understanding Global Change

Join the group that best connects to your context for a facilitated opportunity to make new connections, share ideas, and get support for questions you may have while exploring our organizing questions:

• What does high quality climate literacy instruction look like at different grade bands? 

• How might we attend to climate and environmental justice? 

• How might we expand climate learning and action across content disciplines, grade levels, campuses, and districts?

Grades TK-2 meet in Classroom 3

Grades 3-5 meet in Classroom 4

Grades 6-8 meet in Lab 1

Grades 9-12 meet in Lab 2

Administrators meet in Classroom 1

Youth / Students meet in Classroom 2

Meet back in the theater

An opportunity to explore the exhibits at the Chabot Space and Science Center