How can schools prepare students for climate change?
To prepare for a changing future, young Alaskans need hands-on, place-based, cultural, solutions-based, and cross-curricular education, as well as training to participate in a changing workforce and mental health support to face the effects of climate change.
Learn about what students want by reading the interviews below.
Read about WHY young Alaskans need these types of education.
See a list of programs and ideas that show HOW we can make this education happen.
INTERVIEWS
Young Alaskans are at the forefront of the climate crisis and they need to be prepared for how their lives will be changed by the altered climate and shifting economy.
THANK YOU
All the information on this website was gathered from interviews with students, teachers, and community members who are concerned about climate change and are doing amazing work to prepare students for its effects. There are so many incredible programs already in existence that many students have benefitted from. Hopefully this website can help build on the work of these people and give students more opportunities to learn about climate change and how they can adapt to it. So, thank you to everyone who is working hard for Sitka's students, and thank you to everyone who let me talk to them for this website:
Caitlin Woolsey, Howard Wayne, Chohla Moll, Patricia Dick, Bridget Reynolds, Stacy Golden, Angie Bowers, Rebecca Himschoot, Chuck Miller, Frank Hauser, Caribeth Gundran, Tava Guillory, Max Johnson, Monique Lysons, Zoe Trafton, and Fiona Ferguson.