KEY INFORMATION

• LOCATION: St. Francis College, 179 Livingston St., Brooklyn
• DATE & TIME: Monday, July 27 – Friday, July 31, 2026, 9am – 3pm daily
• LED BY: Glen E. Stuart and Jessica Genter (bios below)
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 30
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: K-12 teachers in any subject excited to prepare for the new NYS Climate Education requirements!

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

🚨THIS JUST IN: In collaboration with students, educators, NGO partners, lawmakers, and many of you, the New York State Board of Regents approved a historic new statewide K-12 instructional requirement for climate education! This will ensure that students are given the opportunity to learn about the causes, impacts, and solutions to the climate crisis. The requirement will go into effect in the 2027-2028 school year beginning with grades 5-12 and grades K-4 in the 2028-29 school year (read more about it here) and STEMteachersNYC is here to support YOU with our Interdisciplinary Climate & Environmental Science Bootcamp.

This 5-day interdisciplinary workshop will explore active learning strategies for deepening understanding of crucial climate and climate related concepts that will empower students of any age, in any subject area. Throughout the week, you will engage in thought-provoking, classroom-tested, hands-on activities and discussions. You will spend time observing instruction from the point of view of a student (“student-mode”), and unpacking those experiences in “teacher-mode” to better understand how to empower your students.

Walk away with cutting-edge, standards-aligned content spanning science and the humanities, helping to answer, ‘What should we teach students?” as well as a new toolkit of teacher moves to help answer, “How should we teach students?” By the end of the week, you will be prepared to support students and colleagues alike as we transition into a climate education future. Join a growing community of front-line educators who understand the importance of truth, action, and resilience.

ARE YOU BRINGING 2+ TEACHERS FROM THE SAME SCHOOL/ORGANIZATION? Even better – someone who’s not a typical science teacher? We have a discount code for you! Email Program Director, Brian Levine, at brian@stemteachersnyc.org to set you up.

A full downloadable agenda is available here.

WORKSHOP LEADER(S)

Glen Stuart has been a participant and facilitator of this and other workshops at STEMteachersNYC for 10 years. He earned an M.A from Rider University and a B.S. From Rutgers. Currently, he is entering his 14th year of teaching Environmental Science and Biology at Montgomery High School in New Jersey.

Jessica Genter is currently working at Friends Seminary, helping students learn Introductory Biology, Advanced Biology, and Environmental Science. She was first introduced to teaching Environmental Science through Glen and fell in love with the curriculum’s ability to get students to care about their world through science, art, history, and philosophy. Jessica is also an adjunct lecturer at City College, where she helps teachers learn best practices for their classroom.

ABOUT STEMteachersNYC

STEMteachersNYC is celebrating 15 years! Since 2011, we have delivered professional development workshops for teachers, by teachers, about teaching. We are an approved CTLE and NYCPS MTAC vendor. All workshops over 2hrs offer CTLE. Below is some important information, but please see our official Registration FAQ on our website for full details and policies.

Pricing: workshop/event pricing reflects a desire to offer affordable professional learning experiences. Some workshops are subsidized and offered at a discount or for free. Some workshops include extra materials costs. Often, there is both a “Full Price” ticket for people who can pay full price and for schools/organizations paying for their staff to attend, and a “Teacher Price” ticket for teachers/educators paying out of pocket. If price is a barrier to your participation, please keep reading for several options.

CUNY & other partner campus pre-service students: If you are training to be a teacher, we want to welcome you to attend our workshops for free! Please email registration@stemteachersnyc.org for details and to see if you qualify.

Want to pay by invoice or purchase order? We encourage you to ask your school or organization if this is a possibility. Please see the Registration FAQ for the process, which includes a template letter with messaging geared towards administrators.

Are there discounts available? Often, yes!

• Discounted Early Bird and “Teacher Price” tickets are often available.
• Each summer, the Wanninkhof Excellence in Teaching Scholarship provides up to 2 free workshops per teacher in TItle 1 or similar schools.
• Specials and discounts are announced on our social media (@STEMteachersNYC on Instagram, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and Facebook), and in our Weekly Newsletter – sign up here.
• We partner with several organizations and CUNY to offer free tickets to teachers and pre-service teachers involved.
• If at any time price is a barrier to you purchasing a ticket, please contact us at registration@STEMteachersNYC.org

Refunds, cancellations, and other registration/ticketing policies or changes: Please see the full Registration FAQ for details and policies.

Please note: We take screenshots, photographs and record video of our workshops in order to publicize a positive image of science teaching, and of STEMteachersNYC – a recognized 501(c)(3) non-profit organization – and to support future teacher leaders. If you register, you are agreeing to be photographed and to have your voice and image video-recorded. You are also agreeing to relinquish all your rights to the photographs and video recordings.

If you do not wish to be photographed or video-recorded – you must inform us before the workshop starts. For in-person workshops, we may take one photograph of your face so that we can erase your image if we happen to catch it by chance during the workshop, and we will do our best to avoid you.

Have more questions? Please see the full Registration FAQ for further details and policies, or contact us directly:

• Registration or ticketing questions – registration@STEMteachersNYC.org
• Questions about invoice/PO issues – bookkeeper@STEMteachersNYC.org
• Any other questions – info@STEMteachersNYC.org