A Virtual Workshop for Educators
This day-long event is designed to provide educators with new ideas and approaches to teaching topics around climate change, enabling a more optimistic discussion to emerge in the classroom. Featured speakers bring international, regional, and local expertise to our exchange, with the goal of providing attendees with practical classroom activities, tangible examples of success, ideas to expand your toolkit for climate-based activities, ideas for community efforts and building local networks, and suggestions for incorporating climate optimism in all school subjects.
This workshop will be of interest to teachers in social studies looking at global political challenges that correlate with climate change and to language arts, and world language teachers will also benefit from curricular strategies, literature recommendations and resources provided to workshop participants. All K-14 educators and librarians are welcome.
Registered attendees will receive a mailing with books and other materials. A registration fee of $10 is requested to cover shipping costs.
Our speakers will be from diverse subject fields with scholarship focused on many of the world’s regions, for example:
Sumudu Atapattu is Teaching Professor and Director of the Global Legal Studies Center at UW Law School. She is also the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program at UW-Madison. She teaches in the areas of International Environmental law and climate change and human rights.
Nicole Fischer is a University of Wisconsin-Madison – Ph.D. student currently at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. Her interest in Environmental Humanities has guided her to pursue a Ph.D. at UW- Madison with a future project that will view German literature through an ecocritical lens. Furthermore, she will complete a minor in the field of SLA and a Certificate in Environmental Humanities. She also contributes to the Environment and Engagement in German Studies at Carleton College, read her article on “Teaching Self-Regulated Learning in Combination with Sustainability and Community Engagement” here.
Li-Ching Ho is Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction . Her research, conducted primarily in East and Southeast Asia, focuses on global civic education, issues of diversity in civic education, and environmental citizenship education. She was previously a recipient of the Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award and the College and University Faculty Assembly Early Career Research Award. Her latest book, co-authored with Keith Barton, is Curriculum for Justice and Harmony.
Carlos Arenas is Program Coordinator, Latin America at Rights and Resources Initiative and UW-Madison Law School Alumnus. Rights and Resources Initiative is a global coalition of more than 150 rightsholder organizations and their allies dedicated to advancing the land and resource rights of local peoples— informed and driven by Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities themselves.
Fred Carter is Co-Founder, Executive Director of Black Oaks Center, a non-profit organization with a mission to equip youth and families with sustainable skills, turning them into beacons of resilience for the future.
Plus, additional speakers yet to be confirmed! More information will be available here as event details are finalized.
This event is organized by The Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC) , and cosponsored by the Middle East Studies Program.
