Professor of English Education, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis
Joined September 2007
This report in provides teachers with activities for having students reflect on and employ languaging through responding to literature, analyzing and producing media, and engaging in role-play related to addressing the climate crisis. emerald.com/insight/content/…
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Presentations: NCTE 2020 Virtual Conference on teaching about climate change using: Literature youtube.com/watch?v=TOXobPVm… Writing youtube.com/watch?v=baGjNVMV… Environmental Justice youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO5yTe… #engchat #Scichat #STEM #EdChat #Edu #NCTE
Trump Admin Sits on $43 Billion Intended for Clean Energy Loans While Unemployment Soars. EcoWatch tinyurl.com/ycrvngkv #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
Mike Rose's blog post on the "tawdry president" as contrasted with the world of the New York Public Library as "democracy in action" tinyurl.com/yclmlm9z
There's no stimulus money for jobs for development of renewable energy in the Senate bill given Trump's threatened veto reflecting his denial of both the effects of Covid-19 and climate change wired.com/story/the-analogy-…
I just added 'Fostering Preservice and In-Service ELA Teachers’ Digital Practices for Addressing Cl…' to @academia! academia.edu/42255568/Foster…
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End the Arms Race or End the Human Race. The US spends $649 billion on the military while other nations spend a total equal to that amount. That money could be spent on transforming the energy system to save the planet. tinyurl.com/wcdx8d8
Here's the lead article in the AFT's American Educator magazine, Climate Change in the Classroom shar.es/a3GDLB via @aftunion
NCTE members: If you missed the session on teaching about climate change, here's access to the round table presentations climatechangencte2019.pbwork… #NCTE19
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Concerned about climate change and how to teach about it in the English classroom. Attend the 1:00 session at NCTE for round-table presentations. climatechangencte2019.pbwork… #NCTE19
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Given students' interest in addressing climate change as evident in the Global Climate Strike, here's resources for the book Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents climatechangeela.pbworks.com #GlobalClimateStrike #edchat #Teachers #teaching
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Ellen Atkin writes about potential global conflicts due to climate change for The New Republic t.ly/xYVb5 (for an interview with her t.ly/9gGVn)
Join the Global Climate Strike, September 20-27 t.ly/wKv5P
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#NCTEchat Issue: 45% of adolescents are continually online, with 54% indicating that they devote too much time on their cellphones with 56% associating high cellphone use to emotions of loneliness, being upset or feeling anxious. tinyw.in/g0Vv
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