{"id":3930,"date":"2024-06-20T18:57:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/post\/\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:57:33","slug":"grant-promotes-climate-change-k-12-education-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/post\/grant-promotes-climate-change-k-12-education-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Promotes Climate Change K-12 Education in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stockton University has received a $650,000 state grant, making it the only college in southern New Jersey to obtain such funding to enhance climate change education for K-12 schools. This grant, part of an initiative led by First Lady Tammy Murphy, supports New Jersey&#8217;s pioneering effort to integrate climate change education across various subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding will establish a regional Climate Change Learning Collaborative (CCLC) through Stockton\u2019s Southern Regional Institute and Educational Technology Training Center (SRI &amp; ETTC). Faculty from Stockton\u2019s Schools of Education, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Arts and Humanities will develop lesson plans and experiential learning opportunities focused on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patty Weeks, director of the SRI &amp; ETTC, highlighted Stockton\u2019s strategic locations and history in environmental education as key assets for the collaborative. The program, co-directed by Kimberly Lebak, will offer K-12 educators content knowledge on climate change and its local impacts, alongside hands-on experiences with community organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Programming for the CCLC begins in June, free for K-12 educators. The SRI &amp; ETTC annually serves nearly 10,000 educators, providing professional development in various educational topics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stockton University has received a $650,000 state grant, making it the only college in southern New Jersey to obtain such funding to enhance climate change education for K-12 schools. This grant, part of an initiative led by First Lady Tammy Murphy, supports New Jersey&#8217;s pioneering effort to integrate climate change education across various subjects. The [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pbl-around-the-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3932,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectpals.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}