Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community

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This fully asynchronous, online Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community helps participants hone their knowledge of climate justice and civic engagement*, and brainstorm ways to bring them into one of their courses along with positive stories of change. Readings and videos help participants recognize the intersections between climate justice and racial, economic, gender, intergenerational, and other systemic forms of injustice and generate ideas for civic engagement for systemic change and positive stories of change that can be used in their classrooms. With significant one-on-one feedback and support via online discussion boards, participants emerge from the FLC with a climate justice lesson draft that addresses a social justice issue that intersects with climate impacts, involves students in civic engagement for systemic change around that issue, and highlights related positive stories of change. You can teach your climate justice lesson anytime during the 2022-23 academic year. Participants do not need pre-existing specialization or knowledge of climate justice or civic engagement.

Meeting times and date This is an asynchronous online learning community, with one 1-hour meeting with a colleague from the FLC sometime during the 2022-23 academic year

25 PD Hours | 15 seats | Register to participate in this FLC!

$800 stipend ($400 for completion of four Canvas Modules and draft lesson creation in Fall quarter; $400 for teaching, revising, and submitting lesson to the Bellevue College Climate Justice Curriculum Repository, administering a survey to students, and observing another colleague’s lesson one time during the 2022-23 academic year)

If you are interested and have questions, please contact Sonya (sonya.doucette@bellevuecollege.edu).

*Civic engagement is not the same as a full service learning experience and, instead, can involve small actions such as: reading about societal issues or talking with others about them; displaying buttons, stickers, or signs; calling a legislature about an issue; organizing or protesting; participating in city council meetings; writing a letter to the editor; and many other possibilities. Of course, it can be a full service learning experience for your students, if that is what you would like to pursue!

Last Updated November 23, 2022