Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education

This timely and uplifting book lays out a powerful vision for preK-12 teaching, learning, and curriculum development to nurture a generation of courageous, informed leaders for climate justice

Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here!

Educators of grades preK-16 can make a pivotal contribution to the success of the global movement for a just and sustainable future. We can do so by giving our students a great education that prepares them to thrive in the challenging world they’re growing into and to shape that world as leaders for climate justice.

Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education offers a compelling argument for what that education needs to be. It’s not a curriculum. Most needed now is an inspiring vision to inform and guide educators in stepping back, taking a clear look at our predicament, and rethinking how best to serve our students and the planet.

The aim of the Teach for Climate Justice website is to support the building of a powerful national movement of educators, students, parents, and community members. Join us! The website will offer

an ever-expanding array of teaching activities and resources
tools for organizing support for climate justice education in your school, including a guide for organizing and facilitating Teach for Climate Justice reading circles
a monthly blog
climate education news and reports from the field
notices of workshops and webinars by myself and others
opportunities for you to share your ideas, triumphs, and challenges with a growing network of like-minded educators.

Warmly, Tom Roderick

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Featured Event

Teach for Climate Justice Costa Rica Retreat

Dates: July 27–August 2

Join with other educators to travel to Indigenous territory in the heart of Costa Rica’s rainforest to explore how to bring climate justice education into the classroom and your institution. This 7-Day retreat will run during various dates in 2025, with the next retreat running from July 27-Aug 2, 2025. Retreat facilitators, Matthew Cook and Bernarda Morales, will provide you with the tools you need to bring climate justice education home to your students.

Highlights include:

Connecting with the beauty and exuberant biological diversity of the Central American rainforest.
Immersion in the Bribri community of Yorkín to experience an Indigenous perspective on our relationship with the natural world and how to resist the forces that are harming it.
Rediscovering the joy of working in community to confront the greatest challenge of our time
Learning real strategies you can use in your school that are designed by and for educators, based on Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education and on the Teach for Climate Justice international movement.

For more information visit the Latin American Service Expedition website, or contact Matthew Cook directly at: matt@serviceexpeditions.net

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