SUSTAINABLE CLASSROOMS
The Sustainable Classrooms division trains educators of all kinds on sustainability and how they can bring a sustainable lens into their classrooms.
Our three- to four-hour 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 Sustainable Classrooms curriculum
- Investigate additional lessons, extensions, frameworks, and resources to go beyond our curriculum


Provide Tools
- Distribute our TN-standards-aligned Sustainable Classrooms curriculum
- Investigate additional lessons, extensions, frameworks, and resources to go beyond our curriculum

Foster Community
- Share access to our Sustainable Classrooms Learning Community to collaborate, network, and learn regularly with other trained educators
- Credit points toward our Workplaces Certification process
Types of Trainings
Hub Training
Tailored Training
Upcoming Trainings
Reach out to schedule a Tailored training for your school or organization. Please allow at least four weeks for scheduling.
Sustainable Classrooms Virtual Hub Training – September 14
Sustainable Classrooms training provides educators with the confidence, tools, and community needed to empower students to make lifelong sustainable choices.
Key Successes
Trained 326 educators on how to teach about sustainable living
Reached 124 schools across seven school districts
Hosted 30 trainings since 2018, a majority for Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS)
Selected accomplishments since the program started. Updated August 2, 2023.
47%
Percentage of MNPS schools with teachers trained to teach sustainable living