SSF PLAN:

Education and Outreach

Proposed Actions

• Identify training and education needs within each section of the Plan, recognizing synergistic opportunities.
  
  
• Develop a curriculum integration task group made up of local public and private K-12 schoolteachers as well as climate and
  sustainability education groups.
  
  
• Work with the State Department of Education and public schools to have them accept sustainability as one of their primary learning goals, standards and benchmarks.
  
  
• Conduct a community-wide asset mapping of organizations and resources for climate and sustainability education at all levels, e.g. informal and formal, K-12 and post secondary, etc. Identify goals, objectives, funding sources and timeline for the existence of such programs or assets within year one of the Plan.

• Develop both formal and informal (non-degree) sustainability education programs.
  
  
• Develop materials for community-based action that address climate change by working with resource organizations and others.
  
  
• Develop a cadre of informed community members from many community sectors that can effectively utilize City of Santa Fe Community Climate Education session(s) to implement actions and programs within their respective groups
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• Work with existing initiatives to establish an annual sustainability education conference for teachers, parents and youth.
  
  
• Direct City support and funding towards educational materials, development and training, and when appropriate, towards organizations that offer needed solutions.