Teaching for a Positive Future
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Teaching for a Positive Future has evolved into the Sustainability Education for New Teachers (SENT) program, funded by The Russell Family Foundation in a generous grant to research partners Woodring College of Education and Facing The Future. This program is premised on the belief that K-12 teachers will be instrumental in helping to bring about the social, political, economic, and environmental conditions necessary to create a positive and just future. The teachers we prepare today will need to help their students negotiate a world that presents unprecedented environmental and economic challenges related to rapidly accelerating climate change and the inevitable demise of petroleum-based economies. Therefore, all teachers will need to become “sustainability literate”.
What is Sustainability?
Meeting the needs of people today and at the same time making sure future generations are able to meet their needs. Sustainability involves the interconnectedness of social justice, environmental stewardship and economic vitality.
Essential Questions: Making the Personal Professional
Teaching for a Positive Future is a response to a growing recognition by educators of our roles and responsibilities to anticipate the needs of our students and communities, within the context of a global community. We hope to challenge individuals and the organizations in which they work to critically examine their responsibilities in working for a more positive future. The essential questions that help guide our work include the following:
- What does a positive future look like?
- In what ways do my (our) habits and beliefs help create a positive future?
- How can I (we) best learn and teach about new ways of living and working sustainably?
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