Environmental Community and Culture

Overview: This page provides an overview of indicators related to school culture and community engagement across California's TK–12 school districts. Embedding sustainability and climate resilience into school culture helps make these principles part of everyday decision-making, strengthens student and community engagement, and fosters lasting institutional change that extends beyond the classroom and into the broader community.

Explore detailed information about each indicator, including its definition, why it matters, and how it is measured. The page also includes links to in-depth analyses of specific school culture and community engagement indicators, allowing you to examine statewide adoption patterns, district examples, and related data in greater detail.

The dashboard below provides a statewide overview of environmental community and culture initiative adoption across California's TK–12 school districts. 

The map on the left displays the geographic distribution of adoption. Districts highlighted in color have adopted at least one environmental community and culture initiative. The summary cards in the upper right show the total number and percentage of California school districts that have adopted at least one community and culture initiative.

The bar chart in the lower right breaks down adoption by individual community and culture initiatives. Initiatives with no documented adoption are not displayed. As a result, some indicators included in our tracking system may not appear in the chart because data for those indicators have not yet been collected or because no California school district has publicly available evidence of adopting that initiative. Hover over each bar to view the definition of the corresponding initiative.

A growing number of districts showing evidence of Environmental Community and Culture, with the most prevalent indicator being Safe Routes to School (424 districts participating). 

Ten Strands would like to thank the following contributors to this project:

• Data Analysts Interns: UC Berkeley Data Discovery Intern Teams

  • Spring 2024: Charis Tang, Chiru Udatha, Chris Wang, Cole Hesterberg, Ethan Wei, Isaac Santillian, Michelle Lin, Pranav Angadi, Zoey Yang