Teaching Environmental Justice: an Interdisciplinary Approach Workshop Goals What is InTeGrate Why EJ? InTeGrate Opportunities Plan for Rest of Workshop

A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues InTeGrate supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues both within geoscience courses and across the undergraduate curriculum. What is InTeGrate An NSF STEP Center DUE-1125331

Why Environmental Justice? Sustainability science = understanding problems and solutions Workforce for sustainabilty needs to bring together understanding earth with enabling human society/civilization - studying with solving- a very fundamental partnership going forward. Engineers need to be able to think about the Earth as a system and the impacts of their solutions; geoscience students need to understand not just how the Earth works, but how the Earth and people work together. Further we can’t teach about problems without addressing solutions – for reasons spanning from its too depressing to it is not empowering students to act.

Why Environmental Justice? Sustainability science = understanding problems and solutions Workforce for sustainabilty needs to bring together understanding earth with enabling human society/civilization - studying with solving- a very fundamental partnership going forward. Engineers need to be able to think about the Earth as a system and the impacts of their solutions; geoscience students need to understand not just how the Earth works, but how the Earth and people work together. Further we can’t teach about problems without addressing solutions – for reasons spanning from its too depressing to it is not empowering students to act.

Why Environmental Justice? Sustainability science = understanding problems and solutions Workforce for sustainabilty needs to bring together understanding earth with enabling human society/civilization - studying with solving- a very fundamental partnership going forward. Engineers need to be able to think about the Earth as a system and the impacts of their solutions; geoscience students need to understand not just how the Earth works, but how the Earth and people work together. Further we can’t teach about problems without addressing solutions – for reasons spanning from its too depressing to it is not empowering students to act.

Workshop Goals Understand where we are Strategize where we want to go Propose next steps Share what we learn with the broader community

A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and the Geoscience Community InTegrate builds on Cutting Edge and Building Strong Departments. It works at faculty/course scale and at the department/program scale. Both efforts are supported by professional development workshops and a website. Most of the activity in the first year has been on materials development and professional development. A year from now there will be small grants for program development.

Materials Development Teams Developed and tested by teams with members from at least 3 institutions 2 year commitment to development, testing, revision and publication Supported by assessment team member to meet design rubric, develop embedded assessments for use in testing $15,000 stipend for each team member Current call for proposals requires a geoscientist and a non-geoscientist on the team Materials development is the other big thing with opportunities right now. Empahsize that development is by teams with members from 3 institutions, that it is a 2 year commitents and that you have to be able/willing to use the materials in a course (or for the case of a course, teach the whole course) in the second year. Call for proposals

Implementation Programs Develop a new vision for developing Earth savvy in higher education Within and beyond geoscience departments Within and beyond single institutions 20 by application in years 3-5 Up to $50K to support design and development Workshop Program

A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues Full information on the website. There is also a town hall meeting on Tuesday where you can learn more. InTeGrate is a community effort – we hope you will be involved. http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate