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267 - Nichole Berg & Kimberly Howard on Educating on Climate Change
From Getting Smart Podcast · Hosted by Tom Vander Ark
Episode summary
In this episode of Getting Smart Podcast: Today, the Getting Smart team is bringing you an interesting episode on educating on climate change with Nichole Berg and Kimberly Howard. Nichole Berg is the program's manager for climate change and climate justice at Portland Public Schools where she leads efforts to support the school board's groundbreaking climate literacy solution.
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Today, the Getting Smart team is bringing you an interesting episode on educating on climate change with Nichole Berg and Kimberly Howard. Nichole Berg is the program's manager for climate change and climate justice at Portland Public Schools where she leads efforts to support the school board's groundbreaking climate literacy solution. Joining Berg in this interview is Kimberly Howard, the Program Officer at Portland General Electric, as well as the sponsor for the development of a climate change curriculum. Together, Nichole, Kimberly, and Tom discuss the school board's initiative to empower youth leaders and to create more opportunities around civic engagement — specifically around climate change, why Portland General Electric cares so passionately about climate change and why they ultimately decided to partner with Portland Public Schools, and how the curriculum at Portland Public Schools is being developed in partnership with PGE. Listen in as they talk to Tom Vander Ark about educating for climate change! Key Takeaways: [:10] About today's episode! [:44] Tom welcomes Nichole and Kimberly to the podcast. [1:47] Nichole's background as a bilingual educator and moving into a...