CLEAN Educator Newsflash

Hello Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation,

Happy New Year from CLEAN! Here's to an incredible 2025 filled with opportunities to inspire and educate. With everything happening in the world, it's more important than ever to engage students in meaningful conversations about climate, the environment, and energy. We know these discussions can sometimes feel challenging, so we’re here to support you. Explore our resources on educators as changemakers and discover tools to help you navigate these topics with confidence. Let’s make this year a powerful one for learning and action! 

Educators as Changemakers

• CLEAN Ambassador Program
• Managing Controversy Webinar
• Controversy in the Classroom: Strategies for Managing Climate Change Discourse
• Have the Talk: Climate Conversations
• Teacher Survey

CLEAN Ambassador Program

Are you passionate about climate education and ready to make a difference?

The CLEAN Teacher Ambassador program supports educators in sharing CLEAN’s resources at regional conferences and local workshops.

As an ambassador, you’ll receive stipends, conference registration coverage, and gas reimbursement to present CLEAN’s tools and materials.



 We even provide abstracts and presentation templates to make your sessions shine!

Join us in empowering teachers and inspiring change! Learn more & apply today at this link to help bring climate literacy to new audiences. 

Managing Controversy Webinar

Navigating climate and energy topics in communities resistant to these discussions can be daunting, but it’s not impossible!

This webinar, presented by geologist and science writer Karin Kirk, offers practical strategies for tackling these challenges.

More specifically, you can learn how to tailor your teaching approach to foster collaboration, focus on solutions, and connect with diverse worldviews. 

Click here to watch the webinar!

Controversy in the Classroom: Strategies for Managing Climate Change Discourse

Here at CLEAN, we know that conversations about climate change can sometimes feel daunting.

To help, we created a dedicated page on managing climate discourse that offers tools to turn challenges into opportunities for learning and engagement. 

On this page, you will find strategies to foster open dialogue, address misinformation, and handle differing perspectives with confidence.

More specifically, the page includes sections on: 

• Understanding the Controversy 
• Diffusing Conflict & Fostering Agreement
• Responding to Tough Questions
• Should We Teach "Both" Sides?
• Building Media Literacy

Click here to explore the page! 

Have the Talk: Climate Conversations

From Our Climate Our Future and Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE), this learning activity helps students learn about and practice having conversations about climate change with adults or peers.

This learning activity takes one 45-minute class period and is based on psychological and social science research.

Click here to check out the activity!

Action for the Climate Emergency: Teacher Survey

Give to CLEAN

Support the CLEAN project at the CIRES Center for Education, Engagement, and Evaluation (CEEE). By donating to CLEAN through CEEE, will help us continue to pioneer quality climate education. By donating to CLEAN, you are investing in a future where science is not just understood but actively used to create a better world.

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