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In this four-week program, teacher educators Jana Lo Bello Miller, Stephanie Rollag Yoon, and Nick Kleese, from the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota, will guide you to discover the power of children’s stories and media for ushering in an ecological civilization. You’ll engage with a variety of stories and learn about types of environmental literature(s). You’ll watch several films and read several articles as homework, then participate in discussions about how stories model climate literacy practices and lifestyles. You will also explore climate literacy as a broader competence that includes climate science but focuses primarily on developing attitudes and values aligned with how we should live to respect our planetary home.
This program is open to anyone interested in sharing transformational children’s stories with their families and friends. It will help you appreciate why stories for young people - books, films, and other narrative media - are the best technology for the social transformation our planet needs and why sharing insights about these stories is a necessary path toward building an ecological civilization. Participants will come away with concrete ideas for action for change in their communities.
Your Program Facilitators
Dr. Jana Lo Bello Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Education and Human Development in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She currently serves in the roles of co-director of elementary teacher education and co-director of the initial and additional licensure programs. Dr. Lo Bello Miller's scholarly interests include elementary teacher education, issues of climate literacy, equity-based pedagogies as well as curriculum design. Jana currently serves as curriculum editor for Climate Literacy in Education and consults with K-12 schools and higher education institutions to further integrate these topics into curriculum. She has taught in both elementary and special education classrooms where feminist and culturally responsive pedagogies inform both her teaching and professional development. Dr. Lo Bello Miller's leadership and mentorship within the Teacher Scholars of Color program supports her passion to increase the number of teachers of color across Minnesota.
Dr. Stephanie Rollag Yoon teaches preservice and practicing teachers at the University of Minnesota in the areas of digital literacies, culturally responsive pedagogy, and writing pedagogy. She brings a background as a Language Arts teacher, focusing on students as multimodal composers. In addition, she consults for school districts and higher education institutes throughout Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Critical Literacy English Education from the University of Minnesota; her research interests include critical writing pedagogy, equitable technology integration, climate literacy, and culturally relevant pedagogy. She was a 2020-2021 INSPIRE
CS-AI fellow at MIT and a 2021-2022 fellow with the
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Open Educational Resources Research. Stephanie currently serves as a curriculum editor for
Climate Literacy in Education.
Dr. Nick Kleese is an Iowa farm kid turned Lecturer in First Year Writing in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Nick serves as the Director of Community Engagement at the
Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota, Managing Editor for
Climate Literacy in Education, and Editor at
Climate Lit. He is also Co-Founder of
KidLitLab! and an inaugural member of the
Whippoorwill YA Award: an award recognizing rural representation in young adult literature. He has taught middle school and high school English, undergraduate children’s literature courses, and outdoor immersion experiences for kindergarteners.
Program:
Building Climate Literacy with Children’s Literature and Media with Drs. Jana Lo Bello Miller, Stephanie Rollag Yoon, & Nick Kleese from the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota
Dates: 4 Mondays - April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 2023
Time: 11 AM - 1 PM Pacific / 12 - 2 PM Mountain / 1 - 3 PM Central / 2 - 4 PM Eastern