Addressing Climate Change in English Language Arts Classrooms
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On Earth Day, join Allen Webb, Richard Beach, and Jeff Share for a conversation about everything teachers need to help young people understand and address the climate emergency through supportive and empowering transformational learning. They will discuss teaching and learning in communities that support and resist climate education; emphasize why addressing the climate crisis is an important dimension of English language arts; and share teaching methods, classroom stories, and student work from cities, suburbs, and rural classrooms.
Drs. Webb, Beach, and Share are the coeditors of the new book Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts (Teachers College Press, 2025). The book describes outstanding English instruction that includes creative and analytical writing; critical place-based learning; contemporary “cli-fi”; young adult, Indigenous, and youth-authored literature; Afrofuturism; critical media analysis; digital media production; and many other ways in which students can explore the crisis and have their voices heard and respected.
This webinar is for teacher educators, English language arts teachers, curriculum coordinators, and school administrators, especially at the middle and high school levels; and all other educators interested in questions of climate justice.
This webinar is cosponsored by Teachers College Press and National Writing Project.
