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EcoEducate believes that public schools (preK-12th grade) are integral to forming these citizens.
EcoEducate is a catalyst and a source of technical expertise and funding for transforming education communities. We work in partnership with schools, education authorities, and local nonprofits to implement Education for Sustainability (EFS). EFS is an approach that helps students acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary to shape a sustainable future (UNESCO, 2014) and to understand the interconnectedness of social, economic, and environmental systems.
There are five components to our evidence-based approach. They include:
We begin with a comprehensive “listening phase” to learn about the educational needs and opportunities where we work and then collaboratively design professional development programs with local stakeholders.
Our programs embrace what research shows works in terms of content, duration, and delivery of impactful teacher professional development.
We identify educators with the skills, personality, and motivation to become instructional coaches who can design and deliver teacher professional development workshops and support their peers through classroom observations, feedback, modeling, and goal setting.
We help build collaborative networks of schools, educators, and organizations to perpetuate professional development and continually implement strategies to enhance educational quality and student outcomes.
Ongoing data collection and analysis are essential to optimize our work and for teachers and school leaders to work towards higher-quality education.
In addition to delivering evidence-based teacher professional development to entire education communities, we connect these communities with one another to share experiences and promote ongoing learning. We believe these communities will become showcases of best practices in action for expanding Education for Sustainability on regional and national scales.
This platform will offer Spanish language training videos, lesson plans, and videos of teachers modeling proven practices with their students in Latin American classrooms. In addition to sharing our resources, EcoEducate and our partners will actively solicit, evaluate, and curate content created by other educators in the region. The platform will also support real-time and asynchronous professional development and teacher-to-teacher collaboration.
