Educators equip the next generation with the knowledge and tools needed to achieve a flourishing, equitable, and sustainable future. EcoRise is excited to offer online teacher professional development courses to educators, of all subjects and grades, that equips them with knowledge, skills, and resources to confidently incorporate climate change and related topics into their existing curriculum. Courses are facilitated by instructional leaders with expertise in teaching climate change in schools. Together, we can ensure all students leave high school climate literate and prepared to create a better world.
The courses were originally developed by the K–12 instructional design team at Presidio Graduate School to address the questions and challenges around teaching climate change. In 2023, EcoRise was selected to receive the program through a highly competitive evaluation process and is excited to grow the teacher education courses with more instructional resources. Learn more about the history of the program here.
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Teaching Climate Change Essentials: A six-week course designed to equip elementary, middle, and high school teachers with knowledge, skills, and resources to integrate climate change into their existing curriculum, regardless of their grade level or subject area.
Teaching Extreme Weather: A four-week course that provides grades 6-12 science teachers with an opportunity to explore the driving forces behind extreme weather events occurring where they live, the relationship to climate change, and methods to address NGSS standards.
Teaching Climate Justice: A four-week online course that gives K–12 classroom teachers the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of climate change, the history of the environmental and climate justice movements, the inequitable impact of climate change on marginalized communities, and ideas and solutions for how to address climate justice.
EcoRise is known for providing leading-edge teacher professional development.
We served teachers and students across all 50 U.S. states and in 54 other countries.
During the 2022–2023 school year we served:
9,469
Teachers
4,237
Schools
530,264
