Initial Publication Date: March 2, 2022
Community Meeting 1
Key Idea Synthesis
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- A major asset of the CoP is the breadth of membership. We have representatives from informal (of several types), K-12 and higher ed (private and public); from ed schools, science and social science programs, humanities, business, law and more; from a variety of different geographic areas in the Midwest including communities of different sizes; and with expertise in things ranging from seismology to communication. This means that we can learn a lot from one another about what climate education looks like from different points of view and can build action that links across disciplines, sectors, institutions, and regions.
- This group is united by its interest in and focus on climate education in the upper Midwest. We recognize the importance of a regional focus in our education efforts and the power of working together to make that a reality. We see the importance of connecting education to community action, workforce opportunity, and policy.
- We will want to balance the ability to learn broadly with the opportunity to address specific needs within subgroups be they educational setting, discipline, topic or skill focused. A practical pathway to improving our educational work in the short term is as important to us as learning broadly.
- Sharing resources is an immediate practical opportunity for moving forward. This began today in the chat and reinforces our goal of building a robust resource repository.
- We see a tremendous opportunity in building cohesion across our individual efforts through shared language, story lines, curriculum resources and more. This could be a scalable mechanism for creating a common understanding of climate change, impacts, and responses across the upper Midwest. Our vision goes beyond sharing what exists to working together to create new things.