This time of year marks three years of my running the AES website. Huge thanks to all of you who made Buy Me A Coffee donations. This enabled me to pay for the Wix hosting for another two years (it will run into Winter 2026).
Looking Back at 2023 and 2024, I count:
3 years this Adult Ed Sustainability website
7 zoom gatherings in which we shared ideas, accomplishments, and hope
Various Docs such as Green Jobs and Adult Education and Green Infrastructure Boom
Presentations at COABE, AAACE, CCAE State, and CCAE Bay Section Conferences and as a PD for West Contra Costa Adult School
Various meetings that connect people, schools, orgs
Michelle Cohen, Climate Champion for DACE (Los Angeles Adult School) created and shared with us 3 Climate Champion Newsletter plus her wonderful End of Year Resource (be sure to check it out!)
Donya Meggs continues her impressive work out of Pima Community College and presented on Inspiration and Teaching Resources for Climate Hope, Student Leadership, and Transformative Action! for LINCS amongst other contributions that bring Climate Literacy and Climate Hope to Adult Education.
Kristen Pursley of West Contra Costa Adult School created a wonderful EL-Civics Sustainability Curriculum which she has shared with folks around the nation.
Big things are happening in LA - and you can look forward to hearing all about them at the LINCS presentation that Matthew Oberlander, Michelle Cohen and I preparing for a LINCS presentation in 2025.
The contributions made by all of you - at our zoom gatherings, in your classes, programs, schools, consortia, and the larger community.
I was nominated for a 2025 Climate Leadership Award.
Looking Ahead to 2025
I hope to continue our zooms - but with a specific focus. My goal for our first zoom is to host a kind of Meet and Greet between Adult Ed and Green Org folks, I'm thinking of groups like Latino Outdoors and the CA Climate Environmental Stewards Program.
I will continue to update the website and resource lists, produce blogs and newsletters from time to time, and publish resources found or created by all of you.
If you have something to share, please send it on so that I can post it to the website, add it to a resource list, or share with the larger group.
In My Dreams - and Maybe Yours, Too
This work becomes institutionalized so that it's a regular and easy to find information on the websites and at conferences for CAEP, CCAE, COABE, CATESOL, CALPRO, LINCS,and all other orgs and agencies that serve, support, and promote Adult Education across the nation.
DEI resources - as a topic and as resources - are now included in many conferences and on the drop down menus of many of the orgs and agencies listed above.
We did it for DEI and we can do it for Climate Literacy, Green Job Pathways, and Sustainability, too - and we must! Because...
As a field, we understand that Adult Learners generally fall in the high risk category for Climate impacts - and we weave that understanding into our Career Tech, English Learning, and all other programs. To truly serve the communities Adult Ed is entrusted to serve, we must acknowledge and address this truth.
Wishing everyone peace, perseverance, joy, and a thriving, healthy, climate-resilient world in 2025 and beyond --
Sincerely,
Cynthia

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