Register now for the kick off event of the 2023 Accelerating Climate Capacity, Engagement, and Leadership Summit (ACCELS), convened by CLEAN! This virtual event will be hosted on November 16th, from 2:00-5:00 pm ET.
ACCELS was created to provide an opportunity for CLEAN Network members and others involved in climate and energy education to gather, share and learn, and, most importantly, explore collaborations for the next year. ACCELS provides space to come together to develop a learning and action network that can advance future programming with a shared awareness of what others are doing, explore opportunities to collaborate, and orient our collective efforts towards systemic change. You can read more about the event from our report on last year’s Summit
here.
We've shifted the design of the 2023 ACCEL Summit to feature working groups who will meet regularly between November's kick off event and a culminating event in Spring 2024. We put out a call for proposals to members of the CLEAN community to propose topics and ideas they would like to lead working groups on. We received submissions focusing on DEI and climate action, development of a Flexible Concept Inventory For high school students, climate change and mental health, and rural climate education practices. We will also give space for discussion of other topics of interest not represented in these working groups. In this launch event, we invite members of our community to join these working groups with the goal of providing opportunities for networking and collaboration, and to push forward on topics that our community has identified as priority areas.
At the end of the registration process, you will be asked to contribute a small registration fee to help sustain this effort. As a part of the registration process, you will also be asked questions about your work and interests which will help us keep the ACCELS Matrix up to date.
The agenda for this November kick off event is:
-2:00 pm ET: Introduction & Place Based Grounding
-2:15 pm ET: Panel: Building subnational partnerships
for climate action within and outside of education systems with Ellen Ebert (Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction), Emily Fano (National Wildlife Federation), & Zakhia Grant (EcoRise)
-3:00 pm ET: ACCELS Matrix overview
-3:30 pm ET: Break
-3:45 pm ET: Lightning Talk presentations from Working Group Leaders
-4:15 pm ET: Breakout rooms for initial working group meetings
-4:45 pm ET: Wrap up & conclusion
*this agenda is subject to change.
If you aren't able to attend the November 16th, but are still interested in participating, please contact gina.fiorile@colorado.edu.
Thank you!
