Take sustainability and climate education relevance to the next level for your middle and high school students, and encourage them to think about innovation in new ways. Join us in the beautiful new Solar1 space for an overview of the new landscape of green jobs across the city and beyond, through the lens of the sustainable development goals, and curricular resources honed in the crucible of CTE classrooms, and designed for practical, authentic, real life connections for your students as they look to their own future. Solar1 will be stepping in to share some of their work, and a bit about how the work co-evolved! Pizza lunch provided!

Are you looking for ways to incorporate more career exploration and sustainability topics into your curriculum? In this two-day workshop, you will get a hands-on introduction to the Exploring Sustainability and the Green Economy curriculum. We’ll take a hands-on approach to show you how to use this curriculum in which your students will learn about the impacts of climate change, and about sustainability with an emphasis on understanding the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), while also exploring green skills, climate justice and a thorough overview of a multitude of green careers that are highlighted in the Bureau of Labor Standards’ green career clusters. These are the careers that both the US government and the energy sector believe are essential for growing our nation’s green workforce so we can both develop sustainably and provide our students with a true role in shaping our nation’s drive towards decarbonization.

This curriculum can be used in a variety of ways: in mini units that focus on providing an overview of sustainability; unpacking green skills and learning about a myriad of different careers aligned to the green economy; or as a full one-year course that fits neatly in a science course sequence but could be just seamlessly incorporated into a humanities elective with its emphasis on economics and other social studies related context. You’ll learn how to create and develop 4 big projects, with activities and grading rubrics for each, and how to differentiate the projects to meet your school community’s specific academic goals.

Through the two larger units that provide an overview of sustainability, career exploration, plus the associated capstone and marketing projects, your students will link the NYC sustainable development goals and initiatives with the UN’s goals, look at a variety of careers in key green career sectors aligned with these goals, and develop visual, written, printed, and other works for presentation and review by their classmates. A truly multidisciplinary project which will instill in your students the importance of their career choices, and, we hope, inspire them to develop and follow their own passions!

We thank Solar One for hosting us this summer!