Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign 94% of us will talk about the weather today. How many will speak about the climate? ↓ A new film. The same silence. And why we still need your help. In January, we launched The Hardest Lesson – a short film that sits with a teacher as he goes through the motions of a lesson he's not been trained to deliver, while his students' reactions and his own conscience pull in a very different direction. It doesn't resolve neatly....
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The lecturer helping future teachers face climate reality before they reach the classroom ↓ Meet Elena Lengthorn, Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Worcester Elena Lengthorn trains our future teachers at the University of Worcester. In a world where every child is growing up in a climate and ecological emergency, she believes every trainee teacher needs an understanding of how this affects young people's...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The secondary teacher tackling climate apathy by making action visible ↓ Meet Jane Backeberg, Sustainability Lead and English teacher, Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Hove When Jane Backeberg first met her eco ambassadors at Cardinal Newman Catholic School in Hove, they were a handful of students expressing intense frustration. They knew there was a problem, but nobody was doing anything about it. Six years later, she's...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The English teacher who turned climate fear into letters that actually got sent ↓ Meet Sarah Dukes, English & Art teacher; Sustainability Lead, The Chase Secondary School, Malvern When students at The Chase School in Malvern demanded their headteacher declare a climate emergency in 2019, English teacher Sarah Dukes stepped up to support them. Now the school's sustainability lead, she's found that her subject is "a bit of a...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The primary school that added climate resilience to its safeguarding policy ↓ Meet Danielle Ware & Sara Farish, Co-Sustainability Leads, Drake Primary School,Thetford, Norfolk “I don't think it should be a choice whether the schools decide to weave climate change in or not. It needs to be part of the statutory curriculum.” Year 3 teacher Danielle Ware and forest school lead Sara Farish are reshaping how climate change is...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The Year 1 teacher who turned an overgrown garden into a living classroom ↓ Meet Raphaela Harris, Year 1 teacher and Eco-coordinator at Goldstone Primary School, Sussex "It's not difficult to say, I'm going to take my class outside today to read a story rather than inside. Small things can make a big difference." When Year 1 teacher Raphaela Harris arrived at Goldstone Primary School in Brighton, the outdoor growing space...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign The one lesson he’s afraid to teach ↓ Introducing our new film 'The Hardest Lesson' – and nine case studies showing what real-life Climate Courage in the classroom looks like. “Many teachers I support don’t want to upset their pupils, and simply can’t afford the time and energy to open 'that can of worms'." Louise Edgington, chartered Educational Psychologist. We expect teachers to be the calm in the storm, yet they are...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign Climate makes it into the curriculum – but the government still isn’t listening to what young people are saying ↓ The Curriculum and Assessment review is out. Here’s our take. “To acknowledge young people’s concern and appetite for climate action – and then fail to deliver emotionally literate, whole-curriculum climate and nature education – is to miss a huge opportunity, and to let down a new generation.” Caroline Lucas...
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Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Climate Courage campaign A quick summer update from Climate Courage Schools ↓ A quick hello before I melt in 40° France… Before I head off for a couple of weeks of reading, swimming, hiding from the boiling sunshine, and hopefully still finding some time in nature, I wanted to share where we’re at – and what’s coming this autumn. Since launching the Climate Courage Schools campaign in June, we’ve been laying the groundwork for what’s next:...
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