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Creative Change consults with K-12
schools, universities, governmental organizations and nonprofit institutions
to design, deliver, and support quality educational programming.
Services for K-12 Schools:
Services
for Higher Education Institutions:
- Supporting effective partnerships with K-12 schools.
Read an example.
- Developing and reframing courses to integrate sustainability.
See an example of a
course we created. (You will leave this page but still be on our
site.)
Services
for non-profit and governmental organizations:
- Consulting and support to help your organization
work effectively with schools.
- Creating educational programs
based on your organization's research or content. Read
an example.
Examples
of consulting with K-12 schools
On-going curriculum redesign:Creative
Change is partnering with the Proctor,
MN public schools on a district-wide
initiative to reorient the curriculum around sustainability. In the
first stage of the multi-year project, the district will install a
wind turbine to complement their classroom forest and river monitoring
program. (Creative Change helped the district raise over $40,000 in
six months for the initiative.)
With support from Creative Change and technical
experts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, a team of K-12 teachers
will use renewable energy and other sustainability issues to integrate
standards across content areas, boost achievement, and introduce students
and the larger community to economic opportunities in the new, sustainable
economy.
The energy project will serve as a model
for integrating the curriculum using other sustainability topics,
including food systems and water. Additional teachers will be brought
on board over a 3-year period, supported with professional development,
release time for planning, and instructional resources. Evaluation
will focus on student achievement, teacher's professional growth,
and school-community integration. The effort is led by teachers, the
superintendent, the curriculum director, administrators, and community
members. Creative Change will provide on-going support through strategic
planning, grant writing, professional development, curriculum mapping
and evaluation.
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Strategic planning: Creative
Change is working with Eastern Michigan University on a national K-12
strategic planning initiative. “Buiding Leadership Capacity
for Sustainability Education” will support four districts in
three states to implement sustainability education as their central
improvement approach. Learn
more.
Providing
expertise to support school-university partnerships
We've worked with the Center
for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD) at the University of
Minnesota, Duluth, to support their k-12 partnership programs. With
an expertise in providing renewable energy systems, the CSCD is now
working with Duluth-area schools to install model systems and integrate
renewable energy into the curriculum. Creative Change's expertise
with teacher education, curriculum, and k-12 funding streams helped
make CSCD's technical expertise accessible to the schools. In the
project, we advised the CSCD on current K-12 issues, identified funding
sources for school-based renewable energy programs, and assisted with
proposal writing and strategic planning to sustain the initiative.
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Program
development for non-profit and governmental organizations
We are working with the
sustainability think-tank Redefining
Progress to develop teacher education
programs focused on the Ecological Footprint. For the project, Creative
Change is turning RP's scientific and economic research into accessible
handouts, factsheets, and training modules for teachers. Learn
more.
In another project, we
are working with the Washtenaw County Department of Planning and Environment
to turn their land use plan into a high school course and teacher
education program. In this project, Creative Change is adapting the
book-length land use plan into a series of dynamic classroom lessons,
and developing a training module to prepare teachers to deliver the
materials. Through these outcomes, the Comprehensive Plan--a blueprint
for sustainability in Washtenaw County--will become a tool for educating
both adults and youth on these issues. Click here to read more about
the project, called "Lessons
from the Land: Land Use and Decision-Making in Washtenaw County."
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