Innovative Curriculum Design for Sustainability

Original date: April 12, 2011

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Presenter: Jaimie Cloud

Description: Useful to both Pre K-12 Educators and non-formal educators of adults and young people, the main idea of the first part is that thinking drives behavior and behavior causes results. Identifying and naming the changes in thinking required to make the shift toward sustainability is critical to the design of transformative education for sustainability (EfS) experiences. Jaimie will present the “big ideas” that frame EfS, and will then walk participants through the EfS curriculum design and innovation process.

Age appropriateness:  K-12  (for formal and non-formal educators)

Jaimie P. Cloud is the founder and president of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in New York City. The Cloud Institute monitors the evolving thinking and skills of the most important champions of sustainability. It then transforms this new thinking and skills into educational materials and a pedagogical system that inspire young people to think about the world, their relationship to it, and their capacity to influence it in an entirely new way.

Jaimie founded the Sustainability Education Center in 1995 which was renamed The Cloud Institute in 2004. She is one of the pioneers of Education for Sustainability (EfS) in the U.S. She writes and publishes extensively, and consults, coaches and teaches in schools and school districts around the country and beyond. She has developed exemplary curriculum units and full courses of study, and has produced a set of EfS Standards and Performance Indicators that schools are using to create their own innovative curricula to educate for sustainability. Cloud also serves on a great deal of boards and advisory groups: She is Chair of Communities for Learning, Inc., a member of the Advisory Committee of The Buckminster Fuller Institute, and she serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. You may contact her at Jaimie@cloudinstitute.org