Who We Are
EARTH Lit (Ecoliteracies for Accountability Responsibility Together with Heart) is an innovative platform for environmental educators in traditional and nontraditional education settings. Our community fosters an inquiry based learning approach rooted in the exploration of stories to makes sense of environmental issues. In the stories we share and tell we take an intersectional approach in which we value and examine the many facets of our identities that influence our relationship to the planet and people within it.
As we explore environmental stories, we invite conversations of critique (what are the issues?), hope (where are their opportunities for change?), and action (what’s in my power to change?).
All resources and services promote an interdisciplinary, student centered approach to intersectional environmental justice. We aim to empower educators through literacies and storytelling to include environmentalism in their teaching and make our world a more hospitable and just place for people and planet now and in the future.
We look forward to you joining our EARTH Lit Community!
Resources
Children's Literature and Environmental Education
Inquiry in ELA: Connecting ELA CCSS and Environmental Education
Environmental Education in Action: Classroom Examples
Professional Resources List by themes/ topics
Curated book lists and recommendations for teachers on how to build a culturally relevant and diverse book collection on environmental justice, enriching classroom libraries.
Ways to incorporate inquiry-based learning approaches into ELA instruction when exploring environmental justice topics. Includes a repository of sample lesson plans linked to ELA Common Core Standards.
Profiles and insights from educators actively engaged in environmental justice education, offering practical examples and inspiration for fellow teachers.
Professional resources, suggested website, and online learning opportunities both through EARTH Lit and other recommended organizations
Contact us
Get in touch with us for any inquiries, share examples from your classroom to be highlighted, or to connect more generally. We're here to foster an inclusive and action oriented community of environmental educators and leaders. We look forward to hearing from you!
Location
EARTH Lit
Denver, Colorado, United States
About Us
Dr. Erica Holyoke is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver in Responsive Literacy Education, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate literacy methods courses. Her research centers on equitable and inclusive teaching through relational literacies in elementary school and preservice teacher preparation. She also explores enactments of activism and environmental justice in interdisciplinary learning.
Dr. Lauren Fletcher is an assistant professor in the Teacher Education Department at California State University, Stanislaus. Her research foci include students’ meaning-making processes, culturally sustaining pedagogies in literacy events, and dialogic practices. She explores children’s literature and how children’s literature expands readers’ understanding and actions regarding activism and environmental justice.
