{"id":43769,"date":"2021-10-12T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=43769"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:21:32","slug":"fellowship-efs-fellowship-educating-for-sustainability-king-county-seattle-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/fellowship-efs-fellowship-educating-for-sustainability-king-county-seattle-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellowship: EfS Fellowship, Educating for Sustainability (King County\/Seattle, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>See full details at <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1i6ALe_Wpl-oJF0bKBvDiMnDLKoZM7ZoM\/view\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1i6ALe_Wpl-oJF0bKBvDiMnDLKoZM7ZoM\/view<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose of the Fellowship<\/strong><br \/>The EfS Fellowship | Equity Lens provides a personal and professional growth pathway for college, grad<br \/>school, or early-career Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) environmental educators,<br \/>environmental scientists, or environmental justice advocates using the principles and practices of<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilityambassadors.org\/pedagogical-foundations\">Educating for Sustainability (EfS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a paid practicum, Fellows serve the organizational learning needs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilityambassadors.org\/learning-community\">Sustainability Ambassadors<\/a> by:<\/p>\n<p>1. Mentoring middle and high school student Ambassadors in developing the project management<br \/>and communication skills they need to design impact projects, track impact relative to<br \/>community performance measures, and create impact stories.<\/p>\n<p>2. Collaborating with middle and high school teachers in designing, implementing, and evaluating<br \/>problem-based, place-based learning (PBL) pathways that meet academic standards in context<br \/>of meeting community performance measures.<\/p>\n<p>3. Developing, expanding, and strengthening community learning partnerships through the<br \/>principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity &#8211; Paid Practicum<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$20\/hour 10-15 hours per\/week for 12 months, October through September<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Flexible hours, mostly remote, with some standing meetings, youth trainings, Equity Circles, PBL<br \/>Curriculum Design Labs, and Field Experiences<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Personal and professional mentoring with staff and network of Sustainable Systems Coaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Us<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MISSION: Rapidly advance a sustainable future.<br \/>1. Empower YOUTH to catalyze community sustainability.<br \/>2. Empower TEACHERS to integrate rigor with relevance for real-world impact.<br \/>3. Empower COMMUNITY to drive collective impact.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability Ambassadors is building its structures and practices around the principles of<br \/>an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reinventingorganizations.com\/\">evolutionary organization<\/a>. We are learning how to design systems that decentralize decision making,<br \/>adapt programs and actions to support localized needs, learn rapidly as a broad coalition of empowered<br \/>change makers, and practice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilityambassadors.org\/collective-impact-explained\">collective impact<\/a> by measuring program efficacy in context of improved<br \/>community conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Our primary work is to learn, to organize in such a way as to cultivate, nurture and celebrate the unique<br \/>contributions of all participants and partners towards rapidly advancing a sustainable future.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainability Ambassadors is a professional development program for student leaders, teacher leaders<br \/>and community leaders committed to the shared mission.<\/p>\n<p>Our work uses real-world performance measures as both entry point and outcome for problem-based,<br \/>place-based curriculum design. This approach motivates students to apply academic excellence in<br \/>context of community impact.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the technical, financial, and policy solutions already exist. We know what to do. The moral call<br \/>to action is clear. We need to start with these students, these teachers, this school district, this city,<br \/>these watersheds.<\/p>\n<p>Our year-round professional training program for over 50 youth leaders follows our elegant 4P<br \/>Syllabus, coaching students in Policy analysis, Performance assessment, Project management, and Public speaking. We support paid Project Manager Internships on impact project design, impact tracking, and impact storytelling. Our peer-to-peer leadership development model builds a legacy of skill<br \/>development in team building and community impact, from middle school through college and beyond<br \/>into the green jobs workforce.<\/p>\n<p>We facilitate annual cohorts of Teacher Fellows developing problem-based, place-based (PBL)<br \/>curriculum pathways that align academic rigor with community relevance and stakeholder relationship<br \/>building. We offer a year-round suite of PBL Curriculum Design Labs serving over 400 teachers a year.<br \/>Our professional development program for teachers supports district-wide, systems change aligned with<br \/>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforgreenschools.org\/national-action-plan-educating-sustainability\">National Action Plan for Educating for Sustainability.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our collaborative learning relationships with leaders in local government and industry are organized<br \/>around the goals and performance measures of city and county Climate Action Plans and Puget Sound<br \/>ecosystem recovery. We engage with an expanding network of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabilityambassadors.org\/coaches-network\">Sustainable Systems Coaches<\/a> who<br \/>actively mentor impact project design for our student Ambassadors, and provide content expertise and<br \/>problem-solving insights for our Teacher Fellows and PBL Curriculum Design Labs.<\/p>\n<p>Our home geography is King County with an expanding reach into Snohomish and Pierce Counties.<\/p>\n<p>We focus on middle school and high school youth and the school districts that guide their learning, as<br \/>well as the community stakeholders, especially local government and business leaders who are relying<br \/>on the next generation to be engaged voters, informed taxpayers, conscious consumers, and employees<br \/>who can create and lead sustainability initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that the community is the curriculum and that by educating for sustainability we can drive<br \/>collective impact towards a significantly more promising and sustainable future for all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About You<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BIPOC (white applicants are a second priority for selection)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Undergrad, grad student, or early career professional<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Interested in a career path related to environmental education, environmental science, or<br \/>environmental justice<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Natural leader, group facilitator, team builder<\/li>\n<li>Powerful communicator: researching, writing, presenting<\/li>\n<li>Passionate about leading on sustainable systems change through an equity lens<\/li>\n<li>Love mentoring middle school and high school youth on agency, voice, and impact<\/li>\n<li>Can model\/lead\/facilitate student teams on a range of impact campaigns<\/li>\n<li>Keenly interested in the art and craft of PBL curriculum design (developing lessons is fun)<\/li>\n<li>Would like to see the end of bell schedules, textbook teaching, and siloed academic courses<\/li>\n<li>Fascinated by the principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)<\/li>\n<li>Passionate about analyzing and shaping institutional culture change within and among schools, communities, local government, and business interests for collective impact<\/li>\n<li>Curious about how organizations learn and evolve<\/li>\n<li>Committed to leading by example with your own personal sustainability choices and daily habits (climate action starts with me)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>It would be a plus if you&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are good at spoken word, poetry, short fiction writing, songwriting, sound recording<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy video storytelling, storyboarding, editing, (including simple but brilliant forms of cell<br \/>phone cinematography, TikTok, Instagram video)<\/li>\n<li>Have a flair for graphic design, web development, infographics (related software familiarity)<\/li>\n<li>Love Salmon and Orca like your brother and sister<\/li>\n<li>Know your watershed address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does a Fellow do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Personal and Professional Mentoring<\/span><br \/>1. Schedule three, 1-hr. weekly sessions (Zoom) with the Director of Learning to \u201cplan the work<br \/>and work the plan\u201d in context of your own personal and professional growth.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Empower YOUTH to catalyze community sustainability.<\/span><br \/>2. Attend weekly ALL HANDS student Ambassador meetings (1 hr. Monday evenings, Zoom)<br \/>3. Design and facilitate an equity lens integrated into all SA student trainings.<br \/>4. Facilitate youth \u201cEquity Circles\u201d exploring personal learning on power and privilege.<br \/>5. Develop your own Impact Project to model the IP3 process: impact project design, impact<br \/>tracking relative to community performance measures, and impact storytelling.<br \/>6. Mentor 3-5 student teams working on their own IP3 process.<br \/>7. Support annual (Fall) Peer-to-Peer Impact Project Design Trainings.<br \/>8. Support the development of new, youth-led City Teams of student Ambassadors in south King<br \/>County and Seattle.<br \/>9. Support quarterly, youth-led Field Experiences (in person).<br \/>10. Support quarterly, youth-led \u201cCarrot Mobs\u201d mass consumer purchasing power campaigns<br \/>(reverse boycotts).<br \/>11. Support annual, youth-led, crowd-source fundraising for organizational or community benefit.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Empower TEACHERS to integrate rigor with relevance for real-world impact.<\/span><br \/>1. Participate in selected PBL Curriculum Design Labs to learn the issues and develop PBL<br \/>pedagogical insights.<\/p>\n<p>2. Design and facilitate an equity lens integrated into all PBL Curriculum Design Labs.<\/p>\n<p>3. Support the curation or creation of new curriculum resources for PBL Lessons.<\/p>\n<p>4. Support the design, publication, and dissemination of completed PBL Lesson Plans.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Empower COMMUNITY to drive collective impact.<\/span><br \/>1. Lead SA students, teachers, and coaches on learning about, listening to, and aligning with local<br \/>environment justice organizations, as well as equity initiatives developed within government,<br \/>school, and business sectors.<br \/>2. Identify opportunities to participate in or directly facilitate Asset-Based Community<br \/>Development (ABCD).<br \/>3. Support outreach and learning by and for school district Equity Directors.<br \/>4. Participate in quarterly SA Community Learning Events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application Process &#8211; Deadline October 1 (or until filled)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Compose a cover letter that tells your story and why the EfS Fellowship is a good fit for you.<br \/>2. Share your resume (include a couple strong references)<br \/>3. Email your materials to:<\/p>\n<p>Peter Donaldson, Director of Learning<br \/><a href=\"mailto:peter@sustainabilityambassadors.org\">peter@sustainabilityambassadors.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Candidates who are a good fit will be invited to an in-depth zoom interview<br \/>5. Onboarding will happen in early October<br \/>6. 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