CCEP-I: Pacific Islands Climate Change Education Partnership

太平洋教育与学习资源组织（PREL）获颁一项奖项，与西方科学技术中心和华盛顿大学合作建立第一阶段气候变化教育伙伴关系（CCEP）。其他核心合作伙伴包括太平洋课程与教学委员会以及咨询学习科学家从TERC和西北大学。CCEP第一阶段项目的总体目标是建立一个以区域或主题为基础的合作伙伴关系协调的国家网络，致力于增加与气候变化科学及其影响相关的有效，高质量的教育计划和资源的采用。该项目将服务于美国附属太平洋岛屿地区（USAPI），重点关注气候变化对沿海生态系统的影响，这些生态系统对生活在USAPI的人们的生活和文化至关重要。该项目面向最易受气候变化影响的地区的教育工作者、学生和社区成员。具体目标包括战略性地规划高质量的K-14气候变化教育项目和资源的文化响应性采用；让当地社区参与制定基于当地知识，特别是土著认识方式的K-14气候教育计划；并作为美国国家科学基金会协调的网络成员与其他CCEP项目合作，该网络在气候变化教育方面发挥国家领导作用。在这个为期两年的项目结束时，pi希望开发一个通用的，多学科的K-14气候变化科学教育框架。此外，该项目还将开发和制作程序的原型，以促进现有课程资源适应太平洋地区的气候和文化。科学教育框架和适应过程都结合了西方科学和土著文化在该地区气候系统知识以及获取和呈现这些知识的方式方面的最佳属性。最全面的成果将是太平洋地区气候变化教育战略计划，扩大的伙伴关系网络可以利用已制定的工具、资源和承诺实施该计划。有关该项目的更多信息，请联系PI， PREL的Sharon Nelson-Barber博士或联合PI， west的Art Sussman博士。

An award has been made to Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) to establish a Phase I Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) in collaboration with WestEd and the University of Washington. Other Core Partners include the Pacific Curriculum and Instruction Council and consulting learning scientists from TERC and Northwestern University. The overall goal of the CCEP Phase I project is to establish a coordinated national network of regionally- or thematically-based partnerships devoted to increasing the adoption of effective, high quality educational programs and resources related to the science of climate change and its impacts. This project will serve the United States Affiliated Pacific Island Region (USAPI) and will focus on climate change impacts on the coastal ecosystems that are vital to the lives and cultures of those who live in the USAPI. The project targets educators, students, and community members in a region that is among the most vulnerable to climate change impacts. The specific goals include strategically planning a culturally responsive adoption of high quality K-14 climate change educational programs and resources; involving local communities in developing K-14 climate education initiatives that build upon local knowledge, particularly indigenous ways of knowing; and collaborating with other CCEP projects as a member of an NSF-coordinated network that plays a national leadership role in climate change education.By the end of this two-year project, the PIs expect to develop a general, multidisciplinary K-14 climate change science education framework. In addition, the project will have developed and prototyped processes to facilitate the adaptation of existing curriculum resources to the Pacific region's climates and cultures. The science education framework and the adaptation processes both combine the best attributes of western science and indigenous cultures with respect to knowledge of the region's climate systems and ways accessing and presenting that knowledge. The most comprehensive outcome will be a Pacific Region climate change education strategic plan that the extended partnership network can implement using the tools, resources, and commitments that have been developed. More information on this project is available by contacting the PI, Dr. Sharon Nelson-Barber at PREL or the co-PI, Dr. Art Sussman at WestEd.