EDUCATION

EXCEEDS CAPACITY (cont.)

Actions To Achieve This Level

Organizational Actions

Partnerships. Foster partnerships between learning institutions, local communities, cultural experts, learner organizations, and non-governmental organizations that enhance opportunities for learning from all societal perspectives.

Transformative curricula. Address and integrate environmental, economic, gender equity, science-based, intersectional, and climate justice concerns in national education policy and curricula.

Place-based learning. Actively engage and connect learners with their community through interdisciplinary learning that is relevant, engaging, grounded in, and in service of local communities and contexts.

Civic engagement. Promote civic competence and responsibility by teaching about the political system, history, design thinking for local problems.

Civic education. Provide practical experience, in both formal and non-formal learning spaces, designed to foster a sense of competence and efficacy for active participation in policy-making.

Socio-emotional capacities. Intentionally nurture and stimulate the development of socioemotional skills to relate to others and cope with climate anxiety.

Partnerships. Establish schools and community based learning centers as family-communitystudent exchange hubs to support each other as active partners of children’s climate learning and engage families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways in these processes.