Volume 3, Issue 5 | May/June 2026
This newsletter is going on its summer schedule — printing combined May/June and July/August issues. Send Brian your news and recommended resources for the July/August newsletter by August 10th.
Call-back session:听Join us for a call-back session on June 17th, at 6 pm Eastern Time. Sequoyah Wharton (2025) will give a presentation he’s entitled Play Is How Thinking Learns to Move: Indigenous Learning Systems, Story, and Climate Sense-Making. “We will discuss the idea of play as a rigorous learning structure, while connecting it to Indigenous learning systems through observation, story, place, relational accountability, and community responsibility.” A Zoom link will be sent out about a week before hand.聽
The May call-back, led by Whitney Aragaki (2025)
The May call-back, led by Whitney Aragaki (2025), was attended by Sequoyah Wharton (2025), Amanda Darlak (2024), Camille Fowler (2024), and Ois铆n Gunning (2025). Whitney asked the meeting to reflect on how they find allies for their innovative work in climate change & equity. Naturally, the answers are often very site-specific 鈥� as teachers find collaborators within the school across disciplines, build or strengthen community partners and opportunities for learning and service; and negotiate with school or town administration. This is a topic that may well be a good one to revisit this coming year, especially with the new cohort of Fellows who will join us this summer.
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Introducing the 2026 Climate and Equity Fellows
91爆料, in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation, will welcome 18 Climate and Equity Fellows鈥攈igh school educators addressing issues of climate and equity in their classrooms鈥攖o participate in the 2026 Climate and Equity Institute. The Institute will take place Sunday, July 26 鈥� Saturday, August 1, 2026, at the Schoodic Institute campus in Maine.
- Sarah Cammer, Minuteman High School, Massachusetts
- Tamara Kley Contini, Crosstown High School, Tennessee
- Danilsa Fernandez, City College Magnet School of the Arts, New York
- Carmen Glenn, New Rochelle High School, New York
- Melissa Goretskie, Power High School, Montana
- Klara Higgins, Rabun Gap Nacoochee School, Georgia
- Shawna Jaggi, Lincoln High School, California
- Benjamin Little, Brookline High School, Massachusetts
- Ryan Loftus, South Salem High School, Oregon
- Shaniece Mosley, Briarcliff High School, New York
- Tiffany Risch, Coventry High School, Rhode Island
- Maitrayee Sahi, Garfield High School, California
- David Sczesnak, Fort Hamilton High School, New York
- Natalie Seeuwen, East Stroudsburg High School North, Pennsylvania
- Lyudmila Shemyakina, Mountain View High School, California
- Jamaal Stiles, Washington County High School, Kentucky
- Emily Whitton, Ridgefield High School, Washington
- Samantha Willsey, Bremen Public Schools, Indiana
Now’s your chance!
Send us your ideas, your news items, or resource reviews by August 10th for next month’s newsletter.
Call-backs: Feel free to suggest topics for future call back sessions
Contact Brian at climateandequity@terc.edu with ideas and proposals!
The Climate and Equity project is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.