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March, 2025: Gaia Scholastic presents at SXSW EDU!

Gaia Scholastic is thrilled to have presented at SXSW for the following workshops:

Integrating Environmental Literacy into the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change Across Disciplines in 2025

March, 2025: Gaia Scholastic is interviewed by CanvasRebel

Click on the article below to learn more about Gaia Scholastic's origin story, business practices, ideas for educational reform, and to learn about the incredible organizations Gaia has the privilege of working with, each doing their own remarkable work:

February, 2025: Gaia Scholastic presents at Columbia University's Mid-Winter Climate Institute

Gaia supports teachers across grade levels and content areas in NYC public schools to integrate environmental literacy into their pre-existing curricula. This workshop enabled teachers to find connections between their content and environmental concepts for their students.

Learn more about the Mid-Winter Climate Institute and other similar events by clicking on the picture below:

January, 2025: Gaia Scholastic partners with the American Museum of Natural History at the New York Botanical Garden

Gaia Scholastic collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History to lead a workshop on nature journaling at the Regional Environmental Educators Day (REED), hosted at the New York Botanical Garden.

December, 2024: Gaia Scholastic's research is listed as #4 of Edutopia's "The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2024"

Gaia's research explored the impact of nature journaling on student well-being. The results indicate that interdisciplinary environmental education helps middle school students decrease stress, improve mood, and increased their feelings of connection to self, others, and nature. 

November, 2024: Gaia Scholastic

joins SubjectToClimate, the Council 

on Foreign Relations, and edWeb

in this Webinar!

Tune in to the recording of this Webinar, which includes key tips, tricks, and examples for how to integrate climate education into the classroom. Additionally, we discuss how teaching about climate change is central to preparing students to be informed citizens in our connected world with our.

November, 2024: Gaia Scholastic's 

PK-12 Youth Climate Summit featured in the

NAAEE Guidelines for Excellence!

The North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) produces "Guidelines for Excellence," which set the standard for high-quality environmental education. Check them out here - and be sure to explore pages 83-84, in which Gaia's PK-12 Youth Climate Summit was used as an example of these "Guidelines in Practice!"

October, 2024: Gaia Scholastic CEO publishes vital climate education research!

This peer-reviewed journal article, published in the Environmental Education Research, highlights the need for interdisciplinary environmental education. The results indicate this type of learning experience supports middle school students in stress reduction, mood improvement, and increased connection to self, others, and nature. 

September, 2024: Gaia Scholastic

joins Climate Week NYC

Gaia had the honor of tabling an event at the American Museum of Natural History, in partnership with SubjectToClimate and the National Wildlife Federation. Watch Rachel Arbor join a panel of experts as they discuss what climate education can and should look like, below:

September, 2024: Gaia Scholastic is officially published!

Check out the article here, all about the role interdisciplinary learning can play in supporting post-secondary students' connection to nature depth of knowledge. Login to CourseSource for the free lesson plan that accompanied this research!

July, 2024: Gaia Scholastic records this podcast for FOSS & School Specialty on how to ready your classroom for the new year through environmental literacy. Tune in here!

June, 2024: Rachel Arbor, Founder & CEO, is awarded the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators!

April, 2024: One of Gaia Scholastic's clients, Garrison School District, becomes a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Awardee!

2023: Gaia Scholastic records a podcast with Psychologist Sheryl Ziegler on how to fight eco-anxiety in today's students through interdisciplinary environmental education. Listen below!