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Adult Ed Sustainability Conversation - What's Important to You?
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ESL curriculum - environmental literacy and justice, Climate Change, community engagement, green jobs
Green Job pathways - informing students
Green job pathways --- providing them within the Adult Education system
Partnering with existing organizations and agencies
Getting more funding for sustainability in Adult Education
Sustainability on campus - recycling, compost, solar panels, water use, sustainable landscaping
Sustainability as a topic at Adult Ed conferences and in Adult Ed policy work
Providing Adult Learners and Adult Ed Staff with opportunities to get involved in Climate work on the local level - neighborhood clean-ups, advocacy work, local organizations
Environmental justice as thread in Equity/DEI work/training/professional development
Centering environmental justice in discussion of Adult Ed Sustainability
Sustainability as a topic in Adult Ed credential programs
Professional development on Sustainability for staff, admin, teachers
Green Teams for Adult Learners - support and mentorship
Impact of Climate events - flooding, fire, drought, hurricanes, air quality, etc. on Adult Education - learning loss, impact on students and staff, impact on campus
How to deal with the challenge of the cost of Climate Change -- it will be really high - and there will be less money left over for Adult Education
Make things do-able -- focus on steps that people can really do - don't set impossible goals
Financial literacy woven into Adult Ed Sustainability - looking at true cost of Climate Change
Ask State and Fed Departments of Education for help
Asking for the same resources given to K12 and Community Colleges and 4 year Universities
Get Teachers unions involved - making it part of Union discussions, conferences, and negotiations
Get Adult Ed organizations - COABE, CCAE, CATESOL, etc. - involved in this
Accessibility (language, dis/ability, delivery points - in person/zoom)
Provide translations of sustainability information in other languages
Inclusivity and equity in planning, roll out, participation, leadership of Adult Ed Sustainability
Emergency preparedness for Climate events - for individuals, families, communities, schools
Address how Climate impacts are amplified by 'isms (racism, gender bias, etc.) -- making the fall out bigger and harder
Build on the strengths, skills, talents and experience of Adult Learners and Adult Ed staff
Climate Change driven learning loss --- impact on attendance, retention, progress, testing, bench marks, metrics
Impact on human level - adult learners, staff, community
Impact of Climate Change on jobs - for example: agriculture and construction both get hit hard by climate events
Impact of Climate Change on housing - and the way that impacts adult learners and staff
Local or regional focus - what is impact of Climate Change in that region, what are Green Jobs, what are local resources, what are local organizations - local or regional focus
Align CTE pathways with needs that will arise because of Climate events - ex: repair and rebuild infrastructure on small or big levels, landscaping (big changes bec of water changes), agriculture (big changes bec of water/climate change), anything utilities related - solar, etc.
Other:
What are your concerns where Adult Ed Sustainability is concerned?
Taking time and energy away from other priorities such as funding, teaching, learning, programming
Very hard to get funding ---- getting funding for all this will be really hard
No existing relationships to support any of this - no connections to organizations or groups or agencies that can help
Staff not interested in taking this on in addition to everything else they have to do
Teacher shortage and teacher burnout and teacher overwhelm
Students want to focus on achieving goals - not this stuff
It's depressing to think about this stuff - it's difficult and sad
Pushback from staff, students, or community -- some people think Climate Change is not real
Current leaders are not really worried about Climate Change
If there isn't a clear plan, it's really hard to do things
Nothing will work till Federal and State governments provide funding and a structure
It's too political - keep politics out of education
The pandemic made everything so hard - we need a break! We just need to focus on education
Other:
What do you think can help make things happen where Adult Ed Sustainability is concerned - check all that apply
Money
Leaders - people at the top need to talk about it, provide information, structure, and encouragement
Adult Learners - centering their voices, needs, leadership
More information and training - Professional Development Days, Conferences, Online Classes
Help from organizations and agencies
Lots of hope - don't make things doom and gloom
Structure - guidelines, plans, systems, curriculum
Communication
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