SUSTAINABLE CLASSROOMS
Education and Training for Educators of All Kinds
Urban Green Lab trains educators of all kinds on sustainability and how they can bring a sustainable lens into their classrooms.
Our professional development training provides educators with the confidence, tools, and community needed to empower students to make lifelong sustainable choices. Using our standards-aligned curriculum, a project-based learning assignment, and student-led home investigations as a base, we explore how to use a sustainability lens in any formal or informal K-12 classroom.
How We Work
Build Confidence
- Define sustainability
- Begin understanding key issues, solutions, and opportunities
- Discuss how to use sustainability as a lens in any classroom
Provide Tools
- Distribute our TN-standards-aligned teaching curriculum
- Investigate additional lessons, extensions, frameworks, and resources to go beyond our curriculum
Provide Tools
- Distribute our TN-standards-aligned teaching curriculum
- Investigate additional lessons, extensions, frameworks, and resources to go beyond our curriculum
Foster Community
- Share access to our Educator Learning Community to collaborate, network, and learn regularly with other trained educators
Classrooms Testimonials
"Overall, teaching sustainability helps my students become responsible global citizens. They are able to consider the long-term consequences and outcomes of their actions to make better decisions, becoming better knowledgeable individuals in their life stages.”
- Carlos Calderón, Sustainable Classrooms Educator
"Thank you for empowering me, making this accessible, providing representation (in slides, quotes, sources), and being an ally in action! Thank you!"
Consuelo Torres, Sustainable Classrooms Educator
"Interacting with Urban Green Lab helped me find tools and words to start being more sustainable that I didn't have. I feel like I have a place to start from now and have hope to actually be able to be sustainable and share about sustainability in multiple areas of life that I didn't consider before."
Upcoming Trainings
Reach out to schedule a Team Training for your school or organization. Please allow at least four weeks for scheduling.
Check back soon for as upcoming trainings are still being scheduled.
To learn more about Education and Training, contact Karissa Hampton at karissa@urbangreenlab.org.
Key Successes
Trained 346 educators on how to teach about sustainable living
Reached 126 schools across seven school districts
Hosted 33 trainings since 2018, a majority for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS)
Selected accomplishments since the program started. Updated August 14, 2024.
47%
Percentage of MNPS schools with teachers trained to teach sustainable living