Rebecca Woodard and Kristine Schutz, University of Illinois Chicago

“Touchstone Texts for Developing Water Literacy: Elementary Teachers Reading We are Water Protectors and Thirst”

 

Kasey Short, Charlotte Country Day School

Nancy Castaldo Author with Clarion Books, Algonquin Young Readers, Lerner Books

“Finding Hope and Inspiring Action Through Young Adult Literature”

 

Mary Richards, Otter Valley Union High School/Vermont

“The Transformative Power of Story to Co-Create Our Collective Future”

 

Andrea Gambino, North Carolina State University

Michaela Einsweiler, University of California, Los Angeles

“Cooking Up Our Existence: Combatting Cultural Erasure and the Climate Emergency through Student-produced Critical Food Ecomedia”

 

Jeff Share, University of California, Los Angeles

“Who Will Speak for the Trees? The Rights of Nature Movement and the Power of Voice

 

michelle bulla and Kerry Baird, Monroe-Woodbury HS (New York)

“Creating Climate Warriors:  How cli-fi book clubs & a “Climate Health Hope Project” position students as agents of change”

 

Molly Marek, University of Texas, Austin

“What does the Earth ask of us? A land-centered literature unit for elementary preservice teachers”

 

Ysaaca Axelrod and Denise Ives, UMass Amherst

Candance Doerr-Stevens, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Jenny Brownson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

“Representations of hope in children & YA literature on environmental disasters”

 

Tiffany Haguey, Hamilton High School, Milwaukee WI

Stephanie Rollag Yoon, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Alex Panos, University of Southern Florida

“Finding Flow: Exploring Climate Literacies Through Place-based Water Inquiries”

 

Candance Doerr Stevens, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Stephanie Rollag Yoon, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Alex Panos, University of Southern Florida

“Curious Explorations of Kinship-based Pedagogies”

 

Gabe Valdez, Pacifica High School (Oxnard, CA)

“From the Drawing Board to the Board Room: Climate Inquiry and Action in a Southern California Comprehensive High School”

 

Fawn Canady, Sonoma State University

Erick Gordon, Credo High School

“Using Documentary Theater Strategies to Tell Climate Stories”

 

Peter Hawkins, University of Arkansas

“Creating Climates: Toxic Tones and How to Treat “Them””

 

Mark Sulzer, University of Cincinnati

Macy Bruner, Finneytown High School

Robert Cornwell, Incarnation Catholic School

Libby Worley, New Richmond High School

“The Art, Craft, and Ethics of Using Generative AI for Climate Literacies”

 

Ashley D Black, Northwest Missouri State University

“Communal Acts of Resilience: Exploring Hurricane Katrina’s Impact in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones”

 

Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Nick Kleese, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Colleen Redmond, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

“Teaching Active Hope and Climate Justice with Stories of Youth Climate Activism: The Climate Book, Drawn to Change the World, and Old Enough to Save the Planet.”

 

Kerise Broome, James Island Charter High School

“Creating an Outdoor ELA classroom”

 

Julianna Kershen, University of Oklahoma

“Claymores, “Slow violence” and climate literacy: Using war literature to make connections between ecocidal practices, war, and environmental justice; from Fallen Angels (Myers, 1988) to The Poppy War (Kuang, 2018)”

 

Rich Novack, Fairfield Warde High School

“Power of Nature Poetry: Material Ecocriticism Meets Outdoor Literacies for Hope”

 

Allen Webb, Western Michigan University

“Writing Short Stories with ChatGPT to Explore Climate Futures”

 

Patricia Hans, Ridgewood High School,

“Climate Justice and the Power of Words: Telling the Stories that Generate Hope”

 

Danielle Haque, Melissa Purdue, and Stephanie Rollag Yoon, Minnesota State University, Mankato

“Collaborative Learning: Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities Connections”

 

Christopher Bass, Elmhurst University

“Reclaiming Campus: Seeing Hope in Trees through Native Languages”

 

Jade Cashman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee & Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

“Rooted in Heart, Hope, and Little Humans – Phenology-based Poetry Selections as Action in Promoting Environmental Literacies in Early Childhood Education”

 

Rob Wilson, Rowland Hall High School, "Teaching about Climate with Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac."

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Another related NCTE session

Connecting Secondary Students and Youth Climate Activists

“Climate Youth Activism: Literature and Research,” Allen Webb, Western Michigan University 

“Using Youth Activist Stories to Cultivate Climate Hope and Action,” Kerry Baird, Monroe-Woodbury High School

"Connecting Students with BIPOC Youth Climate Justice Activists,” Lara Saguisag, New York University

“English Teachers Becoming Climate Activist Teachers,” Michelle Bulla, Monroe-Woodbury High School

Responding: Mia Breznau (winner 2023 Michigan Youth Climate Activist of the Year)