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.