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Outdoor Learning Conference 2025
May 8 - 10, 2025
The ability to use language—whether to share ideas, raise awareness, or speak up—is key to building a more sustainable future. Strong reading, writing, and thinking skills are often overlooked but are essential for achieving sustainability goals.
In this session, you’ll discover how to use critical literacy to help students analyze texts (including the environment), consider diverse perspectives, and examine power and justice in their local communities. We’ll explore practical activities, sample lessons, and a framework based on examples from a recent place-based, integrated unit research pilot entitled Who Speaks for the Trees, conducted in upper elementary grades in Canada. Leave inspired and equipped to integrate sustainability topics into language arts—or any subject—and empower students to create meaningful change.
