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Professor of English Education, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis
Joined September 2007
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This report in provides teachers with activities for having students reflect on and employ languaging through responding to literature, analyzing and producing media, and engaging in role-play related to addressing the climate crisis. emerald.com/insight/content/…
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Presentations: NCTE 2020 Virtual Conference on teaching about climate change using: Literature youtube.com/watch?v=TOXobPVm… Writing youtube.com/watch?v=baGjNVMV… Environmental Justice youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO5yTe… #engchat #Scichat #STEM #EdChat #Edu #NCTE
Trump Admin Sits on $43 Billion Intended for Clean Energy Loans While Unemployment Soars. EcoWatch tinyurl.com/ycrvngkv #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
Mike Rose's blog post on the "tawdry president" as contrasted with the world of the New York Public Library as "democracy in action" tinyurl.com/yclmlm9z
There's no stimulus money for jobs for development of renewable energy in the Senate bill given Trump's threatened veto reflecting his denial of both the effects of Covid-19 and climate change wired.com/story/the-analogy-…
I just added 'Fostering Preservice and In-Service ELA Teachers’ Digital Practices for Addressing Cl…' to @academia! academia.edu/42255568/Foster…
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End the Arms Race or End the Human Race. The US spends $649 billion on the military while other nations spend a total equal to that amount. That money could be spent on transforming the energy system to save the planet. tinyurl.com/wcdx8d8
Here's the lead article in the AFT's American Educator magazine, Climate Change in the Classroom shar.es/a3GDLB via @aftunion
NCTE members: If you missed the session on teaching about climate change, here's access to the round table presentations climatechangencte2019.pbwork… #NCTE19
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Concerned about climate change and how to teach about it in the English classroom. Attend the 1:00 session at NCTE for round-table presentations. climatechangencte2019.pbwork… #NCTE19
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Given students' interest in addressing climate change as evident in the Global Climate Strike, here's resources for the book Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents climatechangeela.pbworks.com #GlobalClimateStrike #edchat #Teachers #teaching
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Ellen Atkin writes about potential global conflicts due to climate change for The New Republic t.ly/xYVb5 (for an interview with her t.ly/9gGVn)
Join the Global Climate Strike, September 20-27 t.ly/wKv5P
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#NCTEchat Issue: 45% of adolescents are continually online, with 54% indicating that they devote too much time on their cellphones with 56% associating high cellphone use to emotions of loneliness, being upset or feeling anxious. tinyw.in/g0Vv
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