25-26 LTE Worldwise Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Shaping a Just and Sustainable Future Book Study

Course Description

• Gain an understanding of the pedagogy for people, planet, and prosperity as a way to nurture students' abilities to think critically with compassion, to explore alternative futures, and to take action to ensure their own, others', and the planet's sustainability. Participants will create and implement a Worldwise Learning Action Plan.
• Lead Learner (Facilitator): Kay Tucker
• Credit(s) and Type: 15 Hours Relicensure

Target Audience

• LTE Staff

Meeting Information

• Dates: August 11, 2025 - April 10, 2026
• Location: Lone Tree Elementary

Course Outcomes

Here are the outcomes for the course:

• Understand real-world issues that are developmentally appropriate and intellectually engaging for each grade level, and how they can drive interdisciplinary learning.
• Understand how to shift from fact-based instruction to concept-driven inquiry that fosters transferable understanding.
• Understand in what ways we can interconnect learning around the three pillars of sustainability—people, planet, and prosperity—to promote systems thinking.
• Understand how we can support students in developing local, actionable solutions that stem from inquiry and lead to civic engagement.