Corie Brown

Sep 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Corie Brown

Corie BrownSeptember 15, 2024 at 6:00 AM·3 min readTwenty years ago, a few of Los Angeles’ West Adams residents and their friends had a novel idea: take a jackhammer to break up the asphalt and cement at their neighborhood’s 24th Street Elementary School to plant shade trees and a garden. They created the Garden School Foundation to support the project, which school and foundation officials believe was a farsighted decision.

Sep 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Corie Brown

Corie BrownSeptember 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM·4 min readYou might miss it when you’re driving by, but there’s a 1.75-acre farm wedged between the football field and active Metro and freight train tracks at the back of the Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet High School campus in Glassell Park.

Sep 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Corie Brown

In the last couple of years, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Los Angeles County Office of Education and the state of California have affirmed their commitment to climate education for all students, pre-K through 12th grade. In October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 285, requiring climate education for all public school students starting in the 2024-25 school year.

Sep 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Corie Brown

Is there a best practices model for climate literacy education in Los Angeles, a program that integrates lessons across all subjects for students of all ages in an environment prioritizing outdoor learning? Twenty years ago, when she founded Environmental Charter High School’s Lawndale campus, Alison Diaz believed the answer was no.

Sep 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Corie Brown

Corie BrownSeptember 15, 2024 at 5:00 AM·3 min readWhat do you think of when you hear the words climate change, Brittany Jefferson asked her fifth-graders. She moved around her classroom at Silver Lake’s Citizens of the World Charter School making eye contact with each student as she talked. “World is getting hotter,” someone shouted. “Man-made,” another volunteered.