Elemental Excelerator, a Hawaii-based nonprofit investor in climate technology, is seeking applicants for a professional development course for local educators.
The “Root for Innovation” program, now in its second year, is held in partnership with SubjectToClimate, a national nonprofit that provides free climate education resources for K-12 subjects. A total of 10 Hawaii educators participated in the inaugural program last year.
This year’s program will run in three parts, taking place in different segments between May 1 through Sept. 30. According to the job posting, the program comes with a total stipend of $3,500.
According to a recent announcement by Elemental Excelerator, the program “aims to provide a basis for K-12 educators of all subjects to feel comfortable integrating climate change into their everyday lessons.”
“Preliminary findings based on survey data of the educator participants in this program suggest that these training modules helped educators feel capable of integrating climate change education into their curricula more frequently,” Elemental Excelerator noted in a statement.
According to Elemental Excelerator, the course will include an overview of climate change science and concepts, examples of how to gear climate change topics to specific subjects, and a guide on how to integrate climate change into existing curricula.
“In most districts, learning about climate change is not required, especially not learning about the ways it disproportionately impacts disenfranchised communities,” said Olivia Dulany, a former Root for Innovation teacher fellow, said in a statement. “This work is impactful because it represents an effort to increase access to education about things that we don’t traditionally teach in our nation’s public schools.”
The deadline to apply for the program is April 26. For more information, click here.
