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My name is Tess and I am a student leader and founder of Climate in Every Classroom, a youth-led initiative brings climate education into all subject areas and ensuring teachers have simplified resources and confidence to teach climate change. We are developing a workshop model led by a coalition of organizations for our volunteer’s K-12 teachers with continued follow-up throughout the school year designed to help schools easily integrate climate topics across disciplines and to make climate learning more accessible, and connected to everyday education. We’re looking to expand climate literacy and build practical, scalable approaches to environmental education within schools.

This is my 39th year in the classroom. Unfortunately, I do not have 30 years in any 1 school district due to my husband's 20+ years of military service. I have taught in grades pre-K, 2, 3, 4, & 5 for 27 years), and 12 years in middle school in the states of South Carolina, Deleware, California, Hawaii, Indiana, and Virginia.   

I'm a Restoration Project Manager with Point Blue Conservation Science's STRAW program (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed).

Multidisciplinary Artist

Dual HBCU Graduate

Thalassophile & Anthophile

I am a teacher of 4 1/2 years at PGCPS. I have worked in the education sector most of my adult life. I love the Arts and all that it enlightens. I am the eldest of eight children. 

I am a special education teacher working in a K-5 elementary school which hosts a specialty program for Talented and Gifted Students. I work directly with about 20-25 students a year, but work in multiple classrooms to teach more than special education. 

Educator | Author | Publisher | Entrepreneur | Non-profit Leader | Systems Thinker 

Victoria is passionate about transformational change in schools. Serving as the environmental education and service-learning consultant at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Victoria works with educators and organizations to increase capacity for equitable, authentic learning experiences through meaningful place-based education. She co-founded FIELD Edventures, a non-profit dedicated to taking learning outdoors and designed and led a project-based, environmental middle school.

I have a degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Sociology. Additionally I have work experience in environmental social media marketing as well as intership experience in marine biology. 

NAAEE’s Senior Director of Capacity Building, Sarah Bodor comes from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, where she held a number of program management and leadership positions throughout the organization. She worked closely with state education agencies in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia to develop and pilot standards-based curricula and provide teacher professional development. Her background also includes communications and fundraising. In 2008, she served as the writer of Maryland’s Children in Nature Plan, which resulted in passage of Maryland’s environmental high school graduation requirement.