Canadian Sustainability Curriculum Review Initiative

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Education for Sustainable Development

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Learning for a Sustainable Future
Mission to promote, through education, the
knowledge, skills, perspectives and practices
essential to a sustainable future

• National, bilingual, non-profit, founded in 1991
• Partners with businesses, non-profit
  organizations, educators, students, and
  governments across Canada
• Head office at York University in Toronto

Sustainability is not only for the school
student and teacher, but for everyone in
society. -- Chester Gillan, Former Minister of
Health, P.E.I. and LSF Board Member
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LSFs Strategic Initiatives
LSF Strategic Initiatives

• 1. Supporting the UN Decade
• 2. Advancing Policy
• 3. Supporting Educators
• 4. Empowering Youth

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Supporting Educators and Empowering Youth

• Resources for Rethinking
• Project Flow
• Connecting the Dots

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• Resources for Rethinking is an online database of
  curriculum-matched, peer-reviewed resources that
  support active, interdisciplinary learning and
  that integrate key environmental, social, and
  economic issues.
• Efficiency Searchable ESD database
• Quality Professionally-reviewed resources
• Capacity Support for ESD publishers
• www.resources4rethinking.ca

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What Is A Resource?

• Designed to be used by a teacher in a regular
  school setting
• Augments and/or replaces textbook
• Published by commercial publishers, non-profit
  organizations, government organizations,
  teachers, etc.
• English and French

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Professional Reviews
Review Tool

• Teams of teachers from all regions
• Recent or current formal teaching experience
• Online input tool
• Extensive on-going training process

• Curriculum matches for all regions
• UN issue matches
• Social, environmental, economic
• Description, strengths, weaknesses
• 9 sustainability principles
• 11 pedagogy principles

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Biodiversity
Food Agriculture
Indigenous Knowledge
Sustainable Transportation
Peace
Energy
Sustainability Education A Framework for
Otherwise Isolated Issues
Water
Equity
Waste Management
Urbanization
Climate Change
Clean Air
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Searchable Database

• Identify region for curriculum connections
• Search by
• Grade
• Subject/course
• ESD issue
• Publishing organisation
• Results
• Full/partial curriculum match
• Access to full review or summary of review

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Project FLOW

• For the Love of Water
• Engages elementary and secondary students in
  hands-on water action projects
• The program has 3 components
• Teachers participate in a professional learning
  workshop
• Teachers and students design a water action
  project, accessing water resources available on
  the Resources for Rethinking (R4R) database
• LSF, in partnership with RBC, provides funding of
  up to 3,000 to support the implementation of the
  action projects

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Action projects

• model for students what responsible, active
  citizenship looks like, preparing them to be
  stewards of our planet.
• provide inspiring and rewarding learning
  opportunities
• are experiential and cater to different
  learning styles
• engage students to work with the wider school
  community
• help students develop skills, knowledge and
  values necessary for active citizenship

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Ideas Inspiration
-storm water management/awareness
campaigns -shoreline clean-ups -local water
quality testing education -reducing use of
disposable water bottles -harvesting rain water
for school-use -school home water use
audits -water conservation
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• Contact
• Pamela Schwartzberg
• Executive Director, LSF
• Pams_at_yorku.ca
• 416 327-2149
• www.lsf-lst.ca