• Plenary Speaker |  Karina Lopez, Program Manager, Frontline Catalysts

  • • Text copy of Karina's remarks

    • Video

• Keynote Address | Commissioner Nancy Skinner, California Energy Commission

• School District Climate Literacy Stories | Classroom #1
  Passing and implementing a climate literacy resolution require different skills and strategies. Hayward, Livermore, and Piedmont School Districts are the most recent districts to pass a climate literacy resolution. They will share their unique journeys to advance district-wide climate literacy implementation. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Nancy Wright, Hayward; Fenna Gatty, Livermore;  Moira Chapman, Piedmont

    • Primary audience: All are welcome

• Exploring Environmental and Climate Data and Simulations | Classroom #2
  UC Berkeley & Columbia Teachers College are developing tools and curricula for students to explore complex environmental systems through simulations and data. In this session, we will share curricula on air and water quality using MoDa: A free, open-source web based modeling and data analysis system. MoDa is a domain-specific, block-based computational modeling tool that allows students to build and test models side-by-side to real-world data.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Tamar Fuhrmann, Senior Researcher & Michelle Wilkerson, Associate Professor; UC Berkeley & Columbia Teachers College

    • Primary audience: Teachers & partner organization serving grades 6-12

• Dream Communities: Reflection, Imagination, Liberation | Classroom #3
  Critical hope requires us to take a clear-eyed look at the injustices our communities face each day, and then continue to imagine a different world. Frontline Catalysts youth leaders will guide participants through an interactive activity to reflect on existing assets and challenges in our local environments, and collectively imagine a climate resilient and liberated future. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Alejandro Tovar-Montano & Jia Cheng, high school student Youth Advisory Board Members, Frontline Catalysts

    • Primary Audience: Middle & High School Teachers & Students

• Circular Economy, Waste and Repair Solutions in Schools | Classroom #4
  Learn about ways that schools are teaching waste and climate solutions connected to the circular economy and repair. In this session you'll hear from StopWaste about the Alameda County Waste Characterization Study, Fixit Clinic's program re-purposing outdated school district Chromebooks, and Berkeley Unified School District's middle school makerspace repair curriculum.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Angelina Vergara, StopWaste; Debbie Lenz, BUSD Makerspace and Science TOSA; Peter Mui, Fixit Clinic

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Building Green Schools Through Youth Leadership | Lab #1
  Critical Hope and Climate Literacy are best fostered at any given school by: 1) offering an elective class that grounds students in a holistic vision of their collective future, through an apprenticeship and leadership experience where they work to manifest the society they want to live in & 2) organizing around recognition programs like the Green Ribbon Schools Award. Learn how teachers and schools are organizing opportunities for youth leadership on campus and beyond.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: John White, 15-year teacher of Green Team at Piedmont Middle; Devin Jackson, 13-year teacher at Joaquin Moraga Intermediate School

    • Primary Audience: Middle and High School Students, Teachers, & Administrators

• Connecting induction cooking, electrification, climate hope and science standards for 3rd - 12th grades | Lab #2
  Using induction cooktops as a starting point and methane pollution as a connecting thread, our cluster of lessons highlights the respiratory health and climate benefits of decarbonization in our buildings, starting in our kitchens.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Aaron Reaven, Project Lead & Erendira Blanco, Lead Teacher; The Induction Cooktop Teaching Project under West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Blue Earth: How Our Ocean Influences Climate  | Studio 3 / Side A
  Why is the ocean an essential component of climate literacy? We will explore essential ocean literacy principles and how they are interrelated with climate literacy across grades. The session will include stories of progress in recognizing the role of the ocean in planetary health and share examples of awe and hope through hands-on activities and presentation. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenter: Jenny Stock, Education Specialist; NOAA / Greater Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries

    • Primary Audience: Teachers & students

• Stitching Critical Hope: Repair, Shashiko & Climate Action  |  Studio A / Side B
  Learn how to turn textile waste into creative climate solutions in this hands-on workshop. Participants will explore visible mending and Sashiko techniques while learning about the environmental impacts of clothing overproduction, microplastics, and textile waste. Leave with practical skills, take-home materials, and ideas for bringing repair-based climate literacy into your classroom or community programs.

  • • Presenter: Clementina "Sustainable Latina™️" Martinez-Masarweh, Clothing Textile Literacy Educator, Mt. Diablo School District  / Sustainable Latina ™️

• Together for Tomorrow: A Brushstrokes for the Bay Community Mural  | Mezzanine
  Brushstrokes' mission is to give youth an opportunity to use public art as a form of advocacy for climate change action. Participants will help create a Bay Area Climate Literacy Exchange mural while learning how this youth-led organization is harnessing the power of art and culture to motivate climate action across the Bay Area. This session is limited to 15 or fewer participants.

  • • Slide Deck, Artists' Statements

    • Presenters: Pooja Verma & Sophie Le, Co-Founders; Brushstrokes for the Bay

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Youth Climate Action Project Presentations | MegaDome
  Youth Climate Action Presentations is a session featuring a series of mini-presentations on youth-centered climate initiatives in schools. Each group will share insights, challenges, and opportunities for participants to explore and learn from, with an emphasis on ideas that can inform and strengthen climate action in other school communities. The session will also include a Q&A, facilitated by Cheney Munson, founder of The Climascope Project.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Let’s Green Our Schools (Joe Senn & Olivia, teachers), Ten Strands’ California Youth Climate Policy (CYCP) (Polina Goncharova, coordinator), Youthpower Climate Action (Heather MacLeod, Adult Advisor)

    • Primary Audience: TK–12 educators and students

• Earth in a Snapshot: Exploring Interdisciplinary Climate Visualization Tools | Planetarium
  Discover how a range of interactive climate and environmental visualization tools can spark inquiry across grade levels and subject areas. This panel offers a curated showcase of multiple platforms and classroom applications, from science and math to social studies and ELA. Through live presentations and interactive educator dialogue, panelists will model how real-world projects can anchor interdisciplinary concepts, build data literacy, and deepen systems thinking.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Adrian Bueno, Planetary Health Program Coordinator, Quest Science Center ; Ann Brown, Schools Outreach Coordinator, Tri Valley Air Quality Climate Alliance ; Eric Havel, Community Resources for Science

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 as you work to expand climate learning and action across content disciplines, grade levels, campuses, and districts:

• Grades TK-2 meet in Classroom 1

• Grades 3-5 meet in Classroom 2

• Grades 6-8 meet in Classroom 3

• Grades 9-12 meet Classroom 4

• Administrators meet in Lab 1

• Community Partners meet in Lab 2

• Youth / Students meet in Studio 3

• A vegeteranian, Mediterranian lunch will be served near the cafe. Please consider bringing your own reusable utensils.

• Tabling will take place on the second level of the Chabot Space and Science Center. List of tabling organizations coming soon:

• Teaching Wildfires in High School Biology and Chemistry | Classroom #1
  CA wildfire can be a driving phenomenon for teaching high school biology and chemistry.  Participants will explore connections between wildfire, their own curricular content and climate change with an explanatory modeling activity.  The models will be used in turn, to identify related justice issues and solution-oriented student action. Resources for embedding trauma-informed pedagogies will also be shared.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Betsy Mitchell, Scientist & Sarah Pedemonte, Director; Bay Area Science Project, UC Berkeley

    • Primary Audience: Teachers, grades 9-12. High school students welcome.

• Design Challenge Learning for Climate Justice | Classroom #2
  How do you approach large-scale issues like climate injustice with students? This workshop will take participants through a systems design challenge focused on tackling local environmental justice issues that students care deeply about. Participants will explore visual strategies for helping students develop curiosity about multidimensional problems that impact their communities like environmental racism and climate change, as well as how to break down these problems and develop innovative solutions. 

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Lauren Cage & Kelly Billings-Yadav, Educator Learning Product Design, The Tech Interactive

    • Primary Audience: Teachers, grades TK-12

• Seeds to Solutions: 6-12, Growing Environmental Literacy through Climate Change and Environmental Justice Curriculum | Classroom #3
  Students are witnessing environmental changes in their communities, like extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires. Yet, until now, teachers have lacked California-specific instructional resources to address these critical topics. In this session, you'll explore Seeds to Solutions, a groundbreaking California-based climate change and environmental justice program that provides educators with high-quality resources to integrate sustainability and environmental literacy into their classrooms, while empowering students to be environmentally literate, engaged community members prepared to act for the well-being of their family, broader community, and environment.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Julie Hilborn, Director of Environmental Literacy and Sustainability; San Mateo County Office of Education & Andra Yeghoian, Chief Innovation Officer; Ten Strands

    • Primary Audience: Teachers and students, grades 6-12

• Seeds to Solutions:  K-5th grade | Classroom #4
  Students are witnessing environmental changes in their communities, like extreme heat, flooding, and wildfires. Yet, until now, teachers have lacked California-specific instructional resources to address these critical topics. In this session, you'll explore Seeds to Solutions, a groundbreaking California-based climate change and environmental justice program that provides educators with high-quality resources to integrate sustainability and environmental literacy into their classrooms, while empowering students to be environmentally literate, engaged community members prepared to act for the well-being of their family, broader community, and environment.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenter: Maybelle Miranda, Associate Director of Professional Development, Community Resources for Science

    • Primary Audience: Teachers & administrators for grades K-5.

• Gaming for Justice: Building a Practice of Radical Imagination through Table Top Role Playing Games | Lab #1
  Storytelling is an essential method of communication that encodes knowledge, histories, ways of being, and hopes and visions for the future. In this time of climate anxiety, we need narratives of joy and ways to express ourselves, explore identity, and imagine new worlds together. Learn about the benefits of joy and connection through tabletop roleplay games as well as Mycelium Youth Network's unique approach to gaming. Participants will engage in a character creation session and potentially a short game created by Mycelium Youth Network. 

  • • Slide Deck  |  Climate California Episode  |  Summer "Leadership in Storytelling" Program for Middle School Students

    • Presenter: Marcy Brown, Lead Storyteller & Shoreline Programs Manager, Mycelium Youth Network

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Intersectional Climate Justice Workshop: How to Build Coalition | Lab #2
  An intersectional lens on climate justice is critical in making the impactful change we are looking for; and it can all start in the classroom. Youth Vs Apocalypse is a youth-led climate justice organization that works in partnership with teachers to create a space for students to frontline tangible change in their communities. In this workshop we will go over the big and small on what it means to be in active intersectional intergenerational coalition within the walls of public education.

  • • Presenters: Ashley Jahja, Director of Campaigns & Nio Gonzalez, Community Education Organizer; Youth Vs Apocalypse

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Getting Outside to Dig in the Dirt & Protect the Climate | Studio 3 / Side A
  Learn how carbon farming, ultra fast growing native schoolyard Miyawaki forests, and indigenous land practices can empower teachers and students to get their hands dirty to restore the soil and help reverse climate change.

  • • Slides:  Carbon Farming with Compost | STEM Micro-learning Forests

    • Trevor Probert, Program Manager, StopWaste; Neelam Patil, Miyawaki Forester and Educator, Green Pocket Forest

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Hope Through Solutions and Everyday Climate Action | Studio 3 / Side B
  Learning about climate change can be very stressful for students. Learning about climate change solutions and the many actions everyone can take to help fosters hope and practical action. We will provide a review of simple, easy to use, free resources for introducing climate change solutions and everyday practical actions to students.

  • • Slide Deck  |  Activities Folder

    • Presenter: Lisa Altieri, President; BrightAction Communities

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome

• Youth Climate Justice Panel | MegaDome
  Hear stories from youth leaders from around the Bay about what brings them into climate justice work, how their work intersects with climate justice, and what they hope educators will bring into their classrooms to support their students in engaging in critical climate hope through collective action.

  • • Presenters: Freyjaa Kirti, Youthpower Climate Action; Alicia Pablo, Frontline Catalysts; Eleanor Pilling Chappelear, Fridays for Future USA; Padma Palaji, BAYCS; Sarah Adkar, Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action

    • Primary Audience: All are welcome!

• Climate California: Classroom-Ready Climate Media, Lessons, and Action Pathways (K-12) | Planetarium
  How can teachers infuse climate literacy into existing curriculum in ways that feel manageable, meaningful, and even joyful—without starting from scratch? This featured session explores how Climate California—NorCal Public Media’s documentary series—can help educators enhance adopted curriculum and existing teaching practices through place-based, relevant, and solutions-centered learning. Participants will experience a trailer and a classroom-ready clip, hear from filmmaker Charles Loi and educator Maria Judnick, and explore practical strategies for using visual media and curated digital resources to support discussion, inquiry, and student action. The session will also introduce The Climascope Project and the Climate Literacy Geovisualizer, with an invitation for educators to contribute local stories and resources.

  • • Slide Deck

    • Presenters: Charles Loi (NorCal Public Media and Climate California), Maria Judnick (Santa Clara University), & Cheney Munson (The Climascope Project)

    • Primary Audience: Teachers, grades TK–12 (students and teacher-leaders also welcome)

“Rooted In Critical Hope” Community Closing | MegaDome Theater

For our closing, please join us for our youth and community partners for a youth and community partner led closing to embrace the community spirit of the day! Learn how we will stay connected throughout the year.  Hear report outs from the day’s community projects.  Join us for a special collaborative closing with Youth and Youth Allies musicians and Poets to launch us back into our communities to take critical action rooted in collective critical hope!

• Photo Gallery

• Slide Deck

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