Participants will read in several different ways and with several different groups. All participants will read from a single anchor text, Teach For Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education by Tom Roderick (2023), as well as several shorter articles, videos, and other media.
Grade band cohorts (elementary, middle, and high school) will each be asked to read primary and secondary texts uniquely relevant to their cohort. These cohorts will also choose additional texts from the list below. Text choice may also be influenced by individual participants' project ideas.
Participants will receive most readings on arrival at the Institute.
Required Primary Source (all cohorts)
Roderick, Tom. Teach For Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education. Harvard Education Press, 2023.
Additional Primary Sources (cohort and project-based choices)
- Beach, Richard, et al. Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, And Making A Difference. Routledge, 2017.
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and The Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013.
- Klein, Naomi. How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting The Planet And Each Other. Anatheum Books, 2021.
- Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and The Environmentalism and of The Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Paulsen, Michael, et al., editors. Pedagogy in the Anthropocene: Re-wilding Education for a New Earth. Palgrave, 2022.
- The Red Nation. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Common Notions, 2021.
- Siperstein, Stephan, et al., editors. Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities. Routledge, 2017.
Additional Secondary Sources (cohort and project-based choices)
- Baptiste, Tracey. The Jumbies. Algonquin, 2015.
- Chin, Jason. The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey. Neal Porter Books, 2022.
- González, Karina Nicole, ill. by Krystal Quiles. The Coquíes Still Sing. Roaring Book Press, 2022.
- Henderson, Barbara. Wilderness Wars. Pokey Hat, 2018.
- Herbet, Megan & Michael Mann. The Tantrum that Changed the World. North Atlantic Books, 2022.
- Jeffers, Oliver. The Fate of Fausto: A Painted Fable. Philomel Books, 2019.
- Kyi, Tanya Lloyd, ill. by Colleen Larmour. Our Green City. Kids Can Press, 2022.
- MacDibble, Bren. How to Bee. Allen & Unwin, 2017.
- Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Bayou Magic. Hatchette, 2015.
- Witterstein, Barry, ill. by Jesse Hartland. The Day the River Caught Fire: How the Cuyahoga River Exploded and Ignited the Earth Day Movement. Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Required Secondary Sources (cohort specific)
- Applegate, Katherine. Willodeen. Feiwel & Friends, 2021.
- Giles, Lamar. The Getaway. Scholastic, 2022.
- Helget, Nicole. The End of The Wild. Hatchette, 2018.
- Lindstrom, Carole and Michaela Goade [illus]. We Are Water Protectors. Roaring Brook Press, 2020.
- Little Badger, Darcie. A Snake Falls to Earth. Levine Querido, 2021.
- Rhodes, Jewell Parker. Paradise on Fire. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2021.
