Curriculum & Program Design
I’ve designed curriculum and educational programs for sustainability and science for well over a decade. That has covered at least 15 classes, every grade from 6th to doctoral/professional, and I have no idea how many lessons, units, assessments, projects, resources, etc. To the right you see me in 2013 helping high school juniors engage with elementary school students while co-building a outdoor learning garden.
I believe sustainability is an action-oriented discipline. My design processes is competency driven, tying together required needed content knowledge of sustainability and science with actionable abilities, such as skills and dispositions. Since content knowledge is increasingly changing, I am more focused on the development of flexible, adaptive, and resilient learner practitioners rather than treating students as “content buckets.” Below are select programs and curriculum I have created, either designing and handing off, or fully creating and seeing through its use. Contact me if I can help your program or curriculum.
The Sustainability Opportunity at ASU
The Sustainability Opportunity is an intensive online certificate seminar that combines the power of the W.P. Carey School of Business with the School of Sustainability. This program is designed for mid-career professionals who want to build a sustainability network and create a decided advantage in the marketplace by reorienting their professional and organizational abilities toward sustainability and resiliency. I wrote the foundational curriculum for this program as part of my post-doc, handing it off when my appointment ended.
The CREST Sustainability Program
In 2010, I founded, wrote, taught, and evaluated The Sustainability Program at the Center for Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (CREST) on the campus of Paradise Valley High School. It was the first sustainability program in the country where public high school students attended a class devoted to sustainability everyday of their high school career. By combining technical application combined with sustainability theoretical instruction, it prepared students to not just be the sustainability science doers of tomorrow, but the sustainability leaders of today.