A Blueprint for Environmental Literacy: Educating Every Student In, About, and For the Environment, was produced by the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson’s statewide Environmental Literacy Task Force (ELTF).

The Blueprint will guide how resources for environmental literacy should best be improved, expanded, coordinated, and integrated with new academic standards.

The Indicators of Climate Change in California report documents observed changes in the state’s climate and its impacts in the state.

Indicators are scientific measurements that track trends and conditions relating to climate change. Collectively, the indicators portray a statewide picture of how climate change has been impacting the environment and people of California.

Through these indicators, the report tells the state’s climate change story, starting with the human influences on climate, or “drivers,” followed by the changes in climate Californians have been experiencing, and then their consequences on the physical environment, on plant and animal species, and on human health. 

Principles in the guide can serve as discussion starters or launching points for scientific inquiry. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing this educational framework of principles and concepts.

The guide can also serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula. 

CalEnviroScreen is a screening methodology that can be used to help identify California communities that are disproportionately burdened by multiple sources of pollution.  

This report identifies innovative as well as practical and scalable solutions to prepare current and future teachers to educate students in California so that they are literate in environmental and climate change solutions and become stewards of our planet.

CSBA’s Climate Change Task Force, comprised of 14 school and county board trustees and two student representatives, was convened in 2020 to examine ways in which CSBA members can address climate change and its impacts on schools.