About The Project

An Introduction

I'm currently in the final stages of my Master of Teaching, and as part of my program I am diving into a community orientated project focused on sustainability education.

Originally, this placement was to be at The Evergreen Brickworks in Toronto, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic I needed a new plan! (If you're looking for community sustainable projects, definitely check them out!)

I am now working with science and biology classes in a secondary school in the TDSB where I create community based projects, lessons, assignments, and engagement opportunities in sustainable education!

Project Goals

I'm targeting this project around four specific goals. These involve where my own introspection and critical engagement will be focused on, as well as my outward efforts and educational goals for the classrooms.

GOAL 1. To make Environmental sustainability and climate change more relatable for individual learners

GOAL 2. Tackle eco-anxiety, the feeling in students of powerlessness to change the future/trajectory of climate change and the environment, and their futures along with it.

GOAL 3. Instill a sense of power in students to change their individual footprint by forming connections between individual action and the global trajectory of climate change.

GOAL 4. De-colonizing eco justice: creating critical discussion, inquiry, and thought around individual actions on climate and eco justice and its connection to eco racism within Canada and the broader exploitation of the Global South by engaging with Indigenous ways of knowing, Indigenous knowledges and pedagogical approaches, as well as critical global theory.