{"id":4455,"date":"2025-09-30T15:58:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gng.org\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:27:12","slug":"seeds-to-solutions-environmental-justice-curriculum-live-california-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/2025\/09\/30\/seeds-to-solutions-environmental-justice-curriculum-live-california-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds to Solutions Environmental Justice Curriculum Now Live in California Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4455\" class=\"elementor elementor-4455\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-442e981c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"442e981c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1552af0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-author-box\" data-id=\"1552af0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"author-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"elementor-author-box__avatar\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gng.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/katie-cox-bw-square-768x768-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Katie Cox, Ph.D.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-author-box__name\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKatie Cox, Ph.D.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-author-box__bio\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Senior Manager, Content Creation Lab<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dfff0ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"dfff0ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-70da3f6 elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/2025\/09\/30\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-calendar\" viewbox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M12 192h424c6.6 0 12 5.4 12 12v260c0 26.5-21.5 48-48 48H48c-26.5 0-48-21.5-48-48V204c0-6.6 5.4-12 12-12zm436-44v-36c0-26.5-21.5-48-48-48h-48V12c0-6.6-5.4-12-12-12h-40c-6.6 0-12 5.4-12 12v52H160V12c0-6.6-5.4-12-12-12h-40c-6.6 0-12 5.4-12 12v52H48C21.5 64 0 85.5 0 112v36c0 6.6 5.4 12 12 12h424c6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>\u0633\u0628\u062a\u0645\u0628\u0631 30, 2025<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76afc04 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"76afc04\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0362646 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0362646\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the fall semester gets underway across the United States, I\u2019m thrilled to celebrate the publication of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/seedstosolutions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeds to Solutions<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a fantastic collection of solutions-oriented environmental education resources now available to California public school students statewide, and free to teachers and students anywhere.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Content Creation Lab\u2013 our by youth, for youth design team at Global Nomads\u2013 had the privilege of designing the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/seedstosolutions.org\/units\/7th-grade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7th-grade science unit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Seeds to Solutions curriculum. The multidisciplinary, inquiry-driven unit is the most ambitious youth-designed project we\u2019ve produced yet! Tasked by the state of California to design a place-based phenomenon unit, our team of 33 young people from 17 countries chose to explore land subsidence in California\u2019s Central Valley as a gateway to understanding California\u2019s groundwater crisis. They posed the essential question: <\/span><b>Why is the Central Valley sinking, and what can we do about it?<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wanting middle school learning to feel more like a game than a textbook, the youth designers invented original characters to guide students \u2014 including Jolfy, a cyborg coyote from the future who enlists learners to solve this intractable problem. Along the way, students encounter a hydrogeologist, a historian, a climate scientist, and a Central Valley farmworker and activist. The characters\u2019 areas of expertise are modeled on real professionals whom the youth interviewed during the design process.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We spent nearly two years piloting, revising, and fine-tuning the unit (shoutout to our brilliant curriculum coordinator @Katinka Lennemann for her vision and tenacity!) to create a rich learning journey grounded in place-based solutions, Indigenous ways of knowing, and environmental justice frameworks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teachers who piloted the curriculum have shared inspiring feedback, noting how science units are rarely grounded in historical context and that even typically disengaged students were excited to dig into the material, chatting about it in the hallways after class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This milestone is personal for me, too. I joined Global Nomads in 2022 to help bring climate justice learning to life for California youth \u2014 and this month marks three years in my role. What I didn\u2019t expect was how transformative this by youth, for youth learning design model could be. Since the cohort that designed Seeds to Solutions cohort, I\u2019ve had the privilege of working with youth from more than 40 countries on projects on a wide range of topics like:<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a youth-to-youth equity leadership training program,<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real Youth, Artificial Intelligence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an open-access course on AI literacy, and<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our newest release, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neurodiversity Leadership and Belonging<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s thrilling to see <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeds to Solutions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in classrooms now, sparking curiosity and agency among 7th graders. 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