Capacity

Students and teachers can do far more than what is often expected of them. 

Given the relentless severity of the Climate Crisis--the fact that this is an “all hands on deck” moment in planetary history--we can take this comfort: Students have the capacity to do far more than what is often expected of them in the classroom. Climate Action Teaching works when the teacher trusts that her students have the capacity to do the work. TEA’s founders have been teaching to the Climate Crisis for the last 15 years, and have seen over and over that, given the opportunity, students create truly ambitious projects that address real issues with real solutions. In fact, we have concluded that it borders on academic cruelty to share with students the overwhelming scope of the Climate Crisis but then NOT give them opportunities to engage in work that is a real and active response to the problems to which they are introduced.