The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $197,388 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to Sonoma State University on October 1, 2024. This funding supports a 3-week summer institute for 25 English teachers of grades 6-12 focused on "climate futurism" - the use of climate science as a catalyst for storytelling and imagining possible climate futures. The institute will combine in-person and virtual activities, including field trips to locations in Northern California, to guide participants in an in-depth inquiry alongside literary scholars, teacher-artists, naturalists, and media literacy experts. The goal is to develop curricular "action plans" for teachers to use in their own classrooms, bridging the humanities, sciences, and the arts to help students imagine alternative outcomes to complex climate-related challenges.
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