Utilizing Data to Catalyze Environmental Action in California’s Schools

Room: 208
Time: 1:30pm – 2:30pm

This session will showcase the newly completed statewide data sets from the Data Initiative for Environmental and Climate Action in California’s TK–12 Schools. In particular, this session will focus on the CA Statewide TK-12 School District Environmental and Climate Action Scorecard, which is a first of its kind dataset that provides a holistic view of district investments in sustainability efforts across campus, curriculum, community, and culture for every public school district across the state.

During the workshop, presenters will explain the data initiative and its methods, guiding participants through activities to explore the findings for their regions. Following this, a facilitated strategy session for participants to consider how they can utilize the data in their own contexts to implement an equity and data-driven approach that catalyzes action.

As this is an interactive workshop, participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or similar device with them in order to access the dataset and explore their region, county, and district(s).

Learning Objectives:

Participants in this workshop will be able to:
Identify what investments their local district(s) has made towards sustainability and climate action.

Determine the additional steps their local district(s) can take to mitigate and/or adapt to current and future climate impacts.

Understand how the broader context in their county can provide opportunities or challenges to moving towards environmental sustainability and climate action.

Create a strategy for utilizing the data to catalyze change in their community.

Speakers:

Sarah Watanabe (Whiting), Director of Client Engagement and Data Science, Ten Strands
Andra Yeghoian, Chief Innovation Officer, Ten Strands

Speaker Photos and Bio’s Coming Soon!

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