Education for Sustainable Development
Community Science
Behavioral Science
Sustainability Science
Global ESD works internationally to engage educators, students, and community members in Education for Sustainable Development.
As we embark on 2025, please enjoy highlights from last year:
Finalizing the migration of our free resources to OpenEvo.
Relaunching Global ESD as an implementation partner with OpenEvo, and as an incubator for school-based community science.
Appointing Josia Razafindramanana as President and Chief Volunteer Officer of the Board, marking a transition from founder to growth mode.
Celebrating our 5th year of internationally piloting our educational design concept.
Launching Portraits of the Park to begin surveying every functional group in the Adirondack Park.
Helping a partner secure a year-long feasibility study for an agricultural and community science hub.
Guiding public school students in successfully revamping their behavioral rubric and presenting to their school board to ensure program continuation.
Education for Sustainable Development ("ESD") :
Empowers people of all ages with knowledge, skills, capacity and values clarification to make informed decisions and take responsible actions to improve individual, social, economic, and environmental wellbeing. ESD advocates for learning that is:
Cognitive: Improving how we think about and understand information systems.
Socio-emotional: Building social skills, empathy and emotional intelligence.
Behavioral: Encouraging positive actions and behaviors
Our Key Strategies for ESD:
We work with schools and communities on these aims through three key strategies, supported by open-access classroom materials on a free, Creative Commons license:
Educational Design Labs: supporting interdisciplinary ESD curriculum development through teacher capacity building and conceptual learning.
School-based Community Science Labs: supporting student and whole school community teams in understanding and driving school and community improvement strategies.
Project Incubation: providing organisational infrastructure and technical support for a diverse range of projects that link skills and perspectives across community science, behavior, and sustainability sciences.
Drawing on insights from biology, economics, anthropology, improvement science and contextual behavioral science, in addition to participatory action research from local schools, we endeavor to identify overarching competencies as well as skills that underpin the work of successful learning communities.
Seeking professional support? We offer a variety of implementation services to help bring these strategies to life in your classroom, district and/or community.