Book cover titled 'Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment: Acting Now to Secure Our Future' featuring swings over a river, with a black background and white text reading 'Our collective potential is a reason for hope.' on the right side.

Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment:

Acting Now to Secure Our Future

An essential guide to advance climate solutions in schools

In Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment, Laura and Jonathan highlight how schools, educators, and students can drive meaningful change — preparing for extreme weather impacts, reducing carbon pollution, and empowering the next generation with the knowledge and skills to lead.

Through real-world case studies, step-by-step frameworks, and powerful insights, this book provides practical guidance to support educators, school leaders, policymakers, and advocates in creating healthy, sustainable, and resilient schools where young people can thrive.

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“A must-read for those wanting to drive solutions and create a thriving future for children, youth, and generations to come.”
— John B. King, Jr., Chancellor, SUNY & 10th U.S. Secretary of Education
“We stand at a critical moment for climate action in education. This essential guide will inspire educators to act on the climate crisis.”
— Leah Stokes, Associate Professor of Environmental Politics, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The education sector is critical to future adaptation and mitigation efforts, and this book provides a helpful roadmap of suggestions. As the authors conclude, there is ‘reason for hope,’ but we must all do our part.”
— Bridget Terry Long, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Book Tour

  • Three speakers on a panel

    Harvard Graduate School of Education

  • Laura and Jonathan holding book with Aspen Ideas climate background

    Aspen Ideas: Climate

  • Laura with school board member holding book

    Prince George's County

    With Pamela Boozer-Strother, PGCPS School Board Member

  • Title of article The Climate Questionnaire: Laura Schifter, Author of Students, Schools, and Our Climate Moment

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  • five people together with arms around each other at conference

    With amazing young leaders Maya, Kiera, Vic, and Naina

  • four people two holding book with CU Denver sign on wall

    School of Public Affairs, CU Denver

  • Three people together holding book with climate literacy seal sign in background

    With Dr. Michael Hester, former Batesville Superintendent

  • Laura and Jonathan holding book with Harvard sign in background

    Laura and Jonathan

  • Title of article educating students and ourselves in a changing climate

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    Pure Edge, Inc

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How Did You Get Here? Students with Disabilities and Their Journeys to Harvard

When their children were young, several parents interviewed in this book were told “you can’t expect much from your child.”

How Did You Get Here? clearly refutes these common, destructive assumptions. It chronicles the educational experiences—from early childhood through college—of sixteen students with disabilities and their paths to personal and academic success at Harvard University.
 
A compelling and practical book, How Did You Get Here? offers clear accounts not only of the challenges and biases facing young disabled students, but also of the opportunities they found, and created, on the way to academic and personal success.

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