Dear Santa Clara Educator,
The Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE) has a current initiative to support Environmental Literacy.  SCCOE has a goal to support and strengthen your efforts to integrate environmental literacy into classroom instruction.  The purpose of this survey is to allow us to learn if and how we can better assist you in implementing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in the context of environmental literacy.

For this survey, please think of instruction based on California’s State Board of Education adopted Environmental Principles and Concepts (EP&Cs) as California’s official definition of Environmental Literacy.  The State’s Environmental Principles are:

EP&C I:  The continuation and health of individual human lives and of human communities and societies depend on the health of the natural systems that provide essential goods and ecosystem services.

EP&C II:  The long-term functioning and health of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems are influenced by their relationships with human societies.

EP&C III:  Natural systems proceed through cycles that humans depend upon, benefit from, and can alter.

EP&C IV:  The exchange of matter between natural systems and human societies affects the long-term functioning of both.

EP&C V:  Decisions affecting resources and natural systems are based on a wide range of considerations and decision-making processes.

We are only asking for your contact information so that we can follow-up with you, if we have additional questions; however, we will remove all identifying information and report the data in aggregate.  Your responses will remain anonymous.  Please be as thorough as possible since it is necessary to gather as much information as possible.  It is estimated that the survey will take up to but no more than 20 minutes to complete thoroughly.

Thank you in advance for sharing your valuable perspective with us.  The Walden West Outdoor School Foundation is offering to the first 25 schools that respond, a $1,000 scholarship for students to attend during their schools’ scheduled Walden West Outdoor School experience.

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* 1. Please tell us about yourself.

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* 2. What is your School District and School? *

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* 3. What is your current role(s) in the 2018-19 school year? (Check all that apply)

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* 4. How long have you been in your current role?

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* 5. If you are a classroom teacher in the 2018-19 school year, what grade(s) do you teach? (Check all that apply)

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* 6. If you are teaching grades 6-12 in the 2018-19 school year, what subject area(s) do you teach? (Check all that apply)

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* 7. Which of the following roles, if any, have you had within your district during the previous three school years 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18? (Check all that apply)

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* 8. If you were a classroom teacher in the 2017-18 school year, what grade(s) did you teach? (Check all that apply)

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* 9. If you taught grades 6-12 in the 2017-18 school year, what subject area(s) did you teach? (Check all that apply)

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* 10. How intentionally do you cover the ideas represented within the EP&Cs? (Environmental Principles & Concepts)?

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* 11. If you answered, “I infrequently or never cover these ideas,” in question 10, please let us know why. (Check all that apply)

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* 12. How often do you cover the ideas represented within the EP&Cs?

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* 13. If you answered “Never or once a year or semester,” in question 12, please let us know why. (Check all that apply)

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* 14. In the 2017-18 school year, how often did you connect environmental literacy with the following subject areas?
Note: If you answered Question 12, “I infrequently or never cover these ideas,” please skip to Question 15.
Please rank the following subjects in order from the most number of times to the least number of times you connected them with environmental literacy.

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* 15. Select up to 5 of the environmental literacy-related activities or topics that you have recently taught or are planning to teach this school year. If an activity or topic is not listed below, please identify it in the space provided below in Question 16.

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* 16. Other environmental literacy-related activities or topics that you have recently taught or are planning to teach this school year.

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* 17. What types of resources and support would you need to cover more of these environmental topics from Questions 15 & 16 in your grade or subject areas? (up to 300 characters)

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* 18. In what areas would you like more professional learning opportunities to help you more frequently and effectively integrate environmental literacy into your instruction? (Check all that apply)

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* 19. How often do you attempt to create the following types of opportunities/experiences for your students?

  Always Sometimes Rarely Never
Understanding why learning about the environment is important
Participating in highly engaging lessons about the environment
Feeling more connected to their community when they learn about issues related to the environment
Applying what they learn to solve environmental problems or issues they find on campus and in the community
Applying the ideas within the engineering design process to solving real environmental problems
Feeling empowered when they learn about issues related to the environment
Learning about other subject areas and content through environmental literacy
Gaining important academic skills (science, history-social science, ELA, math) in connection with environmental literacy

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* 20. If you answered “Rarely or Never” to any statements in the previous question, please let us know why. (up to 300 characters)

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* 21. Please rate the extent to which you agree with the following statements about the context within which you work:

  Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Don't Know
Environmental literacy for all students is a priority at my school.
Environmental literacy for all students is a priority for my district.

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* 22. a) If you answered "Disagree or Strongly Disagree" to either statement in the previous question, please let us know why. (up to 300 characters)

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* 23. Please rate whether Environmental Literacy contributes to, competes with, or is unrelated to instruction in the following subject areas.

  Contributes to Competes with Is Unrelated to
Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
History-Social Science Standards
Health
A foundation for inter-disciplinary instruction

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* 24. I have worked with local community-based environmental organizations, businesses, and/or local/regional/state agencies in the following ways: (check all that apply)

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* 25. Which community-based environmental organizations, businesses, and/or local/regional/state agencies have you worked with? (Check all that apply)

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* 26. When you have received or utilized lessons from these organizations, how consistently are you using these resources within your classroom or school?

  All the Time Some of the Time Rarely Never
Consistent use / Implementation of Resources:

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* 27. How interested are you in having access to the following instructional resources activities that integrate with EP&Cs and environmental literacy?

  Very Interested Interested A Little Interested Not At All Interested
NGSS-focused activities
ELA-focused activities
Math-focused activities
History-Social Sciences-focused activities
Health-focused activities

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* 28. Other thoughts or suggestions about integrating the EP&Cs and environmental literacy into your classroom instruction. (up to 300 characters)

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