Teaching for Sustainable Communities: Exploring Responsible Choices for Consumption and Production

Credit Validation for California Global Education Project Participants Only

This professional learning opportunity focuses on the UN. Sustainable Development Goals #11 and 12, Sustainable Cities and Communities diving deeply into the choices we make around Responsible Production and Consumption while bringing together K-12 educators in LA County who want to further explore:

• Increasing critical academic, geographic, economic and media literacies
• Connections to local resources and individuals, including those who are creating different models for living and working consistent with evidence and values
• Design thinking with an equity focus to understand and re-imagine sustainable and just solutions for the local/global community
• Co-creating with their students a learning environment that promotes global competence and directly connects with the critical local/global issues they are most passionate about and how to individually and collectively design solutions that grow student agency
• Developing a community of practice with other like-minded educators as a place to share ideas, concerns and solutions

Teachers and students co-create productive, respectful, and sustainable cultures/practices that begin in the classroom and extend into local and global communities. This program will support educators in creating classroom practices that emphasize student agency, promote asset-based instructional practices, and contribute to global sustainable development goals.