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Youth Climate Summit

January 13, 2024

Redesigning Educational Models to
Map to Global Sustainability

Part of the WSS EmpowerED Program series

 

 

 

 

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WSS Youth Climate Summit

January 13, 2024

Redesigning Educational Models to Map to Global Sustainability

Part of the WSS EmpowerED Program series

Amidst a climate crisis, technological disruption, evolving work landscapes and eroding institutional trust, current educational models are inadequate in preparing individuals of all ages to navigate these changing times. This highlights the urgent need for a profound redesigning of educational models to map to sustainable global systems. We invite you to this rolling workshop series that works together to proactively address the demands of our swiftly evolving world.

Join us for our next EmpowerED Workshop on Saturday, January 13
12pm - 4pm EST

These workshops feature an interactive blend of speaker presentations and group discussions. 

This is an opportunity for youth, youth organizations, curriculum developers, climate experts and government officials to come together to redesign education and collaborate on an approach that steers humanity in a more sustainable direction.

REGISTER

image of a youth zoom meeting
image of a youth zoom meeting

Join us for our next EmpowerED Workshop on Saturday, January 13, 12pm - 4pm EST

These workshops feature an interactive blend of speaker presentations and group discussions. 

This is an opportunity for youth, youth organizations, curriculum developers, climate experts and government officials to come together to redesign education and collaborate on an approach that steers humanity in a more sustainable direction.

These
Summits
Provide:

  • A chance to hear youth’s unvarnished perspectives and innovative ideas about transforming education
  • A space for youth to collaborate on meaningful redesigns of education
  • A place to collaborate on effecting curriculum changes at all levels in the time necessary

SUMMIT GOALS FOR REDESIGNING EDUCATION THAT GENERATES:

  • 1

    Empowerment of youth, women and underrepresented groups to collectively build a new and sustainable future.

  • 2

    Regulated, responsible and innovative use of AI and technology to enhance learning, empower communities and support sustainable models and climate crisis resolution.

  • 3

    Green jobs creation and learning about venues for applying the necessary skills to solve the climate crisis.

  • 4

    The preferences of young adults so that the world they live in is intentional and one they are supported in creating and empowers them to solve the climate crisis.

  • 5

    The alignment of efforts and understandings, creating an evolving system that meets the rapidly changing educational needs of the world's young people.

  • 6

    An adaptable workshop model that fosters ongoing transdisciplinary, multi-generational collaboration to transform the existing educational systems to drive essential global change.

  1. Inclusivity – no matter who you are, where you come from, what you look like or what you identify as, we must all have an adequate seat at the table in terms of educational opportunities and participation in solving the climate crisis.
  2. Shifting away from the mindset of prioritizing profit over the well-being of the world.
  3. How we can inspire green jobs and opportunities that support a sustainable future.
  4. The role education plays in society and how it ripples out to affect our world.
  5. Whole systems thinking and application of education to synchronize currently fragmented understandings and shift them into a more comprehensive approach.
  6. AI’s application in every phase of education.
  7. Collaboratively arrive at shared understandings and models that reveal and resolve current blind spots in understandings of the climate crisis.
POTENTIAL DISCUSSION TOPICS

SPEAKER INFO

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Caroline’s work is rooted in more than 20 years of experience in public education, education innovation, management consulting, and engineering. She has lived the life cycle of school creation and transformation as a teacher, mentor, coach, founding principal, and investor in innovative school models. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, a Master of Education in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Science in Administration through New Leaders for New Schools, a principal training fellowship.

Caroline founded 228 Accelerator with the intent to redesign the relationships that normalize oppression and to accelerate the journey toward a more inclusive society. She explores innovative organizations and learning models that optimize the role of relationships, leverage technologies, and engage people as agents in their own transformation.

Caroline Hill headshot
Caroline Hill, Founder:
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Heidi Gibson is the Manager of the Global Sustainability Series in the Curriculum, Digital Media and Communications Division of the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC). Heidi joined SSEC in 2020 to support the development of the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals community research guides. This followed her prior work as an SSEC Research Fellow helping to develop the structure of the guides and aligning it to ideas from socio-scientific, place-based, participatory action, civic and global learning research.

Heidi is passionate about engaging young people to realize their own power to transform the world. She published a book, From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues, and has co-authored articles exploring the supports and educational shifts needed to help young people become a more central part of global sustainability efforts.

Heidi has a MA in International Education and has held roles researching and directing global education programs. Diverse perspectives and experiences are exemplified by Heidi’s background which includes serving as a US Foreign Service Officer in China and Fiji, teaching experiential civics to middle and high school students in Washington, DC and Hawaii, and conducting lab research in Berlin and Baltimore while completing her Bachelor’s degree in Biology. She loves to travel to new places, grapple with new ideas, and learn new skills. 

Heidi Gibson headshot
Heidi Gibson, Manager of
Global Sustainability Series:
Smithsonian science education center logo

Steven Hartman is Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations programme. This role is based at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He is also Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. Hartman has held senior faculty positions at several universities in Sweden, including Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Hartman’s work addresses integration of the humanities in global change research and promotes collaboration among social and human scientists, artists, education specialists and civil society in efforts to meet sustainability challenges of the present and foreseeable future. Transdisciplinary approaches to convergent knowledge production unify many of his scientific, educational and collaborative projects with societal partners.

In 2023 Steven Hartman was elected as a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Steven Hartman headshot
Steven Hartman, Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition:
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Liz Quigley is the Youth Education & Policy Advisor with the Turn it Around! Project. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Sustainability – International Development and Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University where she discovered her passion for creating sustainable impact and helping others do the same.

During her time at Arizona State, she worked with groups such as The Rob & Melani Walton National Sustainability Teachers’ Academies, Fridays for Future – Phoenix, the Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development – Greater Phoenix, Changemaker Central and the Sustainability Alliance at ASU.

Liz currently works with experiential learning and engagement efforts for sustainability as the Program Manager for Co-curricular and Community Initiatives at the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University.

Liz Quigley Headshot
Elizabeth Quigley, Program Manager for Co-curricular and Community Initiatives:
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Iveta has earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Education and History/Political Science, M.Phil. and an M.Ed. in International and Comparative Education, an M.A. in Education Administration and Leadership (Columbia University), and a B.A. in Linguistics and Foundations of Education (University of Latvia).

Iveta has been awarded the ASU Award for Excellence in Research for Global Impact (2020), UN Best Practices Award (2013), George Bereday Award (2013), and Best Book Award from AABS (2008).

Iveta's vision is to bridge theory and practice in education, fostering collaborations between academia, policymakers, and practitioners globally.

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Iveta Silova, Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement:
Arizona State University logo

WE NO LONGER LIVE IN THE WORLD OF THE 1950'S

Hence, transforming education to meet the demands that young people will experience must rapidly occur. Education is one of the most powerful tools we have to empower the next generations.

The summit will feature youth from around the world, exploring the necessity of global approaches to unity and solutions to long term challenges given today's reality.

REGISTER NOW

Leading up to this Summit, we partnered with Youth Climate Action Team to learn what is most important to youth in education. In these conversations, we learned that:

Youth want to be met with a higher level of sophistication. They want to be empowered to learn about the crises that are occurring, even though many adults think they are too young to understand.

Youth want climate curriculum integrated into their educational experience and to be empowered to work with and uplift others in the divided world we now share.

Students are frustrated at spending the first twenty years of their lives in a system that maintains the status quo, rather than one that can empower and support them in creating a world and future that works.

Youth recognize that the traditional strategy of getting good grades and going to college will no longer guarantee the bright future and that a new approach, one that addresses the current reality is now required.

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The threats posed by climate change to food, water and other resources, combined with the emergence of the automation era and AI, present children of the future with hugely different realities to navigate. Join the WSS Youth Climate Summit to weigh in on these pressing issues and collaborate globally with a community dedicated to solving the climate crisis in the time necessary!

SPEAKER INFO

Click headshot for bio.

Caroline’s work is rooted in more than 20 years of experience in public education, education innovation, management consulting, and engineering. She has lived the life cycle of school creation and transformation as a teacher, mentor, coach, founding principal, and investor in innovative school models. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia, a Master of Education in Learning and Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Master of Science in Administration through New Leaders for New Schools, a principal training fellowship.

Caroline founded 228 Accelerator with the intent to redesign the relationships that normalize oppression and to accelerate the journey toward a more inclusive society. She explores innovative organizations and learning models that optimize the role of relationships, leverage technologies, and engage people as agents in their own transformation.

Caroline Hill headshot
Caroline Hill, Founder:
228 accelerator logo

Heidi Gibson is the Manager of the Global Sustainability Series in the Curriculum, Digital Media and Communications Division of the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC). Heidi joined SSEC in 2020 to support the development of the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals community research guides. This followed her prior work as an SSEC Research Fellow helping to develop the structure of the guides and aligning it to ideas from socio-scientific, place-based, participatory action, civic and global learning research.

Heidi is passionate about engaging young people to realize their own power to transform the world. She published a book, From Ideas to Action: Transforming Learning to Inspire Action on Critical Global Issues, and has co-authored articles exploring the supports and educational shifts needed to help young people become a more central part of global sustainability efforts.

Heidi has a MA in International Education and has held roles researching and directing global education programs. Diverse perspectives and experiences are exemplified by Heidi’s background which includes serving as a US Foreign Service Officer in China and Fiji, teaching experiential civics to middle and high school students in Washington, DC and Hawaii, and conducting lab research in Berlin and Baltimore while completing her Bachelor’s degree in Biology. She loves to travel to new places, grapple with new ideas, and learn new skills. 

Heidi Gibson headshot
Heidi Gibson, Manager of
Global Sustainability Series:
Smithsonian science education center logo

Steven Hartman is Founding Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition in UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations programme. This role is based at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. He is also Visiting Professor in the Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Iceland. Hartman has held senior faculty positions at several universities in Sweden, including Uppsala University, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Hartman’s work addresses integration of the humanities in global change research and promotes collaboration among social and human scientists, artists, education specialists and civil society in efforts to meet sustainability challenges of the present and foreseeable future. Transdisciplinary approaches to convergent knowledge production unify many of his scientific, educational and collaborative projects with societal partners.

In 2023 Steven Hartman was elected as a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Steven Hartman headshot
Steven Hartman, Executive Director of the BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition:
bridges unesco most logo

Liz Quigley is the Youth Education & Policy Advisor with the Turn it Around! Project. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Sustainability – International Development and Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University where she discovered her passion for creating sustainable impact and helping others do the same.

During her time at Arizona State, she worked with groups such as The Rob & Melani Walton National Sustainability Teachers’ Academies, Fridays for Future – Phoenix, the Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development – Greater Phoenix, Changemaker Central and the Sustainability Alliance at ASU.

Liz currently works with experiential learning and engagement efforts for sustainability as the Program Manager for Co-curricular and Community Initiatives at the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University.

Liz Quigley Headshot
Elizabeth Quigley, Program Manager for Co-curricular and Community Initiatives:
Ohio state university sustainability institute logo

Iveta has earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Education and History/Political Science, M.Phil. and an M.Ed. in International and Comparative Education, an M.A. in Education Administration and Leadership (Columbia University), and a B.A. in Linguistics and Foundations of Education (University of Latvia).

Iveta has been awarded the ASU Award for Excellence in Research for Global Impact (2020), UN Best Practices Award (2013), George Bereday Award (2013), and Best Book Award from AABS (2008).

Iveta's vision is to bridge theory and practice in education, fostering collaborations between academia, policymakers, and practitioners globally.

iveta silova headshot
Iveta Silova, Professor and Associate Dean of Global Engagement:
Arizona State University logo

ALL VOICES MATTER!

Send us some ideas on how to redesign education and we will be compile and work on them before and during the summit.

CO-CREATING THE PHOENIX WORLD TRANSFORMATION PLATFORM™

A collaboration and education technology infrastructure is being designed by World Systems Solutions to bring individuals, organizations and nations into a functionally aligned union to give people, organizations and government institutions a way to collaborate quickly and proactively to solve the most pressing environmental issues.

A collaboration and education technology infrastructure is being designed by World Systems Solutions to bring individuals, organizations and nations into a functionally aligned union to give people, organizations and government institutions a way to collaborate quickly and proactively to solve the most pressing environmental issues.

TESTIMONY

"The summit for me was such a revival and heart-warming session. I met Rajesh, who shared his work with regard to fighting climate. The whole discourse was such a beautiful container for me, filled with information and understanding of the systems governing us, versus the disconnect of what the imminent and most important urge for the future is."

Fiston M.

Youth Climate Summit attendee
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  1. The Culture of Innovative Climate Technologies | WSS December 6, 2023

    […] The changes that need to occur not only need to occur right now. We need to continue to radically lean in for the next 30-100+ years. This requires helping to elevate how we currently approach education. The next quarterly Youth Climate Summit in the EmpowerED series, focused on redesigning education and mapping its implantation globally to support sustainability, will take place on January 13th, 2024. After all, it is the youth who will inherit this earth, and learning a new approach to these challenges together will inform future education and the development of the PHOENIX World Transformation Platform. https://wssnow.org/wss-youth-climate-summit-2/ […]

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