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“Be the change you wish to see in the world!” To be future leaders, advocates, and engaged community members, students must first connect to the world outside of the classroom. Engage in hands on activities and best teaching practices that demonstrate how sustainability provides an integrating context for content and foundational literacy skills.

Enhance your literacy toolbox to support the diverse readers in the classroom with strategies and skills grounded in current research on reading, heart, humanity, and technology. Reading is a lifelong skill and no matter the grade level, all teachers need to support a range of readers, meeting students where they are at and create meaningful classroom experiences to support all students. Ponder the question, why do U.S. teachers lag behind global peers in teaching about sustainability? We will use articles, podcasts, and talks to identify why, and gather materials to weave sustainability topics across content areas. Your digital reading toolbox will be filled with curricular resources across a wide range of sustainability-based topics. This course is for K-12 leaders across content areas who want to see how sustainability can be integrated into all we do in the schools, while cultivating critical thinkers, digital citizens, knowledge constructors, and literacy learners.