CCEP - II: Pacific Islands Climate Change Education Partnership

太平洋岛屿气候教育伙伴关系是太平洋岛屿社区和组织应对气候变化影响的合作网络，致力于加强太平洋岛屿地区的气候教育。核心团队包括PREL、WestEd、夏威夷大学、马歇尔群岛学院、基于实体的课程和教学负责人以及其他研究人员。大约40个其他组织，包括所有美国附属太平洋岛屿（USAPI）学校系统和高等教育机构，以及政府机构和广泛的非营利团体和当地社区，组成了支持伙伴的骨干。PCEP战略计划建立在K-14气候教育框架（CEF）的基础上，该框架以下一代科学标准和太平洋岛屿土著知识和实践为基础。CEF在整个USAPI指导PCEP在专业发展，课程背景化和传播以及协助社区-学校伙伴关系方面的工作。区域执行和传播战略是通过深入了解该区域岛屿、文化和政府之间的差异和相似之处而制定的。PCEP的愿景是通过教育增强该地区的学生和公民的能力，使其能够增强现代科学和土著环境知识，解决气候变化影响的紧迫性，并尊重土著文化，使该地区的学生和公民拥有知识和技能，以提高对气候变化的理解并适应其影响。将社区适应和K-14教育联系起来以推进气候科学教育的战略特别适合这个高度脆弱和目前受影响的地区。PCEP工作的这一方面可以作为气候教育战略的灯塔，如果美国其他地区和国际上预计的气候变化增加，气候教育战略可能变得同样合适和理想。该项目是通过气候变化教育伙伴关系（CCEP）计划资助的六个第二阶段项目之一。 CCEP计划是NSF气候变化教育计划的一部分，该计划于2009财年通过国会拨款建立。 CCEP计划是一项一次性的、专门的NSF努力，旨在建立一个协调的、基于区域或主题的合作伙伴关系的国家网络，致力于增加采用与气候变化及其影响科学相关的有效、高质量的教育计划和资源。 CCEP项目组合包括一个主要的跨学科研究和开发工作，旨在促进对气候系统科学以及气候变化对自然和人类系统的影响的更深入理解和参与。 该计划的愿景是建立一个具有科学素养的社会，能够有效地权衡全球气候变化的证据，因为它面临着未来的挑战，同时准备创新的科学和技术劳动力，以提高我们对人类与气候相互作用的认识，并为可持续，繁荣的未来制定方法。 每个CCEP都需要在正式或非正式的学习环境中纳入气候科学家，学习科学家和教育从业者的专业知识之间的创新合作，以研究，设计和测试新的模型和策略，以有效地教授和学习气候科学。 CCEP计划专注于跨学科方法和变革性影响规模，在与气候科学教育和劳动力发展相关的联邦投资组合中占据独特和互补的利基。

The Pacific islands Climate Education Partnership (PCEP) is a collaborative network of Pacific Island communities and organizations responding to the impacts of climate change and committed to enhancing climate education in the Pacific Island region. The core team includes PREL, WestEd, the University of Hawai'i, the College of the Marshall Islands, entity-based Curriculum and Instruction Chiefs, and other researchers. About 40 other organizations, including all U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) school systems and institutions of higher education, as well as governmental agencies and a broad range of non-profit groups and local communities, comprise the cadre of supporting partners. The PCEP strategic plan is founded on a K-14 Climate Education Framework (CEF) that is based on the Next Generation Science Standards and Pacific Island Indigenous knowledge and practices. The CEF guides the PCEP work throughout the USAPI in professional development, curriculum contextualization and dissemination, and assistance to community-school partnerships. The regional implementation and dissemination strategies are informed by deep understanding of the differences and similarities among the region's islands, cultures, and governments. The PCEP vision is to empower the region's students and citizens through education that exemplifies modern science and indigenous environmental knowledge, addresses the urgency of climate change impacts, and honors indigenous cultures so that students and citizens within the region will have the knowledge and skills to improve understandings of climate change and adapt to its impacts. A strategy of connecting community adaptation and K-14 education to advance climate science education is particularly appropriate for this highly vulnerable and currently impacted region. This aspect of the PCEP work can serve as a beacon for climate education strategies that may become equally appropriate and desired if projected increases in climate change occur in other regions of the USA and internationally. This project is one of six Phase II projects being funded through the Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program. The CCEP program was developed as part of the NSF Climate Change Education program, established through Congressional appropriations in FY 2009. The CCEP program is a one-time, dedicated NSF effort 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. The CCEP portfolio encompasses a major interdisciplinary research and development effort designed to promote deeper understanding of, and engagement with, climate system science and the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems. The vision of this program is a scientifically literate society that can effectively weigh the evidence regarding global climate change as it confronts the challenges ahead, while preparing the innovative scientific and technical workforce to advance our knowledge of human-climate interactions and develop approaches for a sustainable, prosperous future. Each CCEP is required to incorporate innovative collaborations among expertise of climate scientists, learning scientists, and education practitioners in either formal or informal learning environments to research, design, and test new models and strategies for effective teaching and learning about climate science. With its focus on interdisciplinary approaches and transformative scales of impact, the CCEP program occupies a unique and complementary niche in the portfolio of Federal investments related to climate science education and workforce development.