Greetings,

Are you a pre-service or seasoned high school teacher who is planning on teaching or currently teaching about climate change? Are you grappling with how to explore this topic with your students, knowing that it may bring up a variety of emotions for you and your students? Our team is seeking high school teachers from across the US to participate in a focus group that will gather information about their experiences, barriers, and needs related to their own climate mental health and in supporting their student’s climate mental health. To participate, teachers must have experience teaching about climate change topics in their classrooms. Participating teachers will join a 90 minute online focus group and will receive $150 for participating in the study. Focus group dates and times will be determined based on participants’ schedules. 

If you are a high school teacher who would like to participate in this focus group, please fill out this 10-minute application survey here by September 26th, 2024. 

Raw link: https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3yq4e6THjuO4tw

We also ask for you to share this announcement with other high school teachers you may know.

This research is being conducted through the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The project is funded by CIRES. 

Thank you in advance for your important role in this project.

Sincerely,

Anne Gold, Ph.D.

Director, CIRES Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE)

anne.u.gold@colorado.edu 

University of Colorado Boulder