Sustainable and Climate Ready Schools Admin Fellowship

A Program of the San Mateo County Office of Education's Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Initiative (ELSI)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The last cohort to complete this program is the 2021 cohort

The Sustainable and Climate Ready Schools Administrator (Admin) Fellowship Program supports educational leaders to successfully drive environmental transformation across their school community, and meet the increasing curricular and facilities mandates related to environmental literacy/sustainability and climate resiliency. This knowledge-to-action fellowship focuses on successfully managing change through the development and implementation of a project that does one or more of the following:

  • Greens one aspect of their school/district's facilities and operations, and utilizes these efforts in the curriculum as a laboratory for learning;

  • Develops and implements a strategic plan for integrating environmental literacy into the curriculum and instruction for all students at every grade level;

  • Supports a project that prepares the school/district to be Climate Ready in one focus area (high heat, floods, wildfires, trauma-informed practices for climate change, etc).

This semester long fellowship program has three core components that fellows must complete in order to be eligible for a stipend.

WORKSHOPS & ONGOING LEARNING: The monthly workshops, asynchronous learning, and coaching sessions are where the majority of program objectives take place (i.e. strengthening knowledge base, skill building, network creation, and project support).

COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECT: Fellows will be supported and guided through the process of developing and implementing an Administrator-Led Community Impact Project that will launch by Earth Week (April 22nd).

FINAL DELIVERABLES: All participants of the program will submit two final deliverables:

  • Administrator Fellowship Case Study: See template here, and examples from past fellows here: 2020 fellows and 2021 fellows.

  • Capstone Presentation: Prepare and deliver a five minute presentation about your project.

Program Support for the SCRS Admin Fellowship

Andra Yeghoian

Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Coordinator

SMCOE

SCRS AF: Program Lead and Coach

Naomi Stern

Green Facilities and Operations Analyst

SMCOE

SCRS AF: Technical Assistant Support

Amity Sandage

Environmental Literacy Coordinator

Santa Cruz County Office of Education

SCRS AF: Coach

Jenn Mutch

Science Coordinator

Santa Clara County Office of Education

SCRS AF: Coach

The SCRS Administrator Fellowship is supported by the below organizations