Teaching Climate Justice

Rethinking Schools editor Bill Bigelow will introduce lessons from the Rethinking Schools book he co-edited, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis and each participant will receive a copy.

This participatory workshop is ideal for classroom teachers, pre-service teachers, other school staff, curriculum coordinators, teacher educators, school media specialists, and environmental justice activists.

$25 Workshop fee. All participants will receive a copy of A People's Curriculum for the Earth, and lunch sourced from a local farm-to-table restaurant will be provided.

Bill Bigelow taught high school social studies for almost 30 years in Portland, Oregon, and is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project. He has written or edited numerous books, including Rethinking Columbus, Rethinking Our Classrooms, Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World, A People's History for the Classroom, and A People's Curriculum for the Earth. He is on the steering committee of the Portland Public Schools Climate Justice Committee.